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...economic crisis, aides said, this would probably be Clinton's last time to give a purely presidential speech to the nation before the campaign season begins. ``There's no question that this State of the Union speech is the most important speech of this presidency,'' said Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff last Friday...
While Clinton polished his speech, his top aides were working on little besides the Mexican loan deal. Rubin, Panetta and Vice President Al Gore faced a hostile group of House Democrats Wednesday morning and realized that they had what one called ``a potential tragedy'' on their hands. Fearful that voters back home would resent the public underwriting of private loans to Mexico, lawmakers refused to make what Gore called ``a difficult vote but an easy decision.'' Hearing Gore's insistence that the Treasury might actually make money from the deal, a lawmaker shocked the White House group with his bluntness...
...opposed every moderate effort in the last Congress. I can only wonder now if he actually believes in his own promises, or will he reverse course yet again?" Whose fault was the 100-minute pastiche? Apparently, Clinton winged it.TIME White House correspondent James Carneynotes that Chief of Staff Leon Panetta promised just hours before Clinton's delivery that the speech would run just 40 minutes...
...LEON PANETTA...
...expected, formally ratified Newt Gingrich as their choice for Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Administration's welcome, however, was less than warm, thanks to Gingrich's assertion that one-quarter of the White House staff had used illicit drugs in recent years. Chief of staff Leon Panetta denounced the accusation as "absolutely false" and chastised the accuser: "He's not just an out-of- control radio talk-show host. He's Speaker of the House of Representatives, and he's got to learn to behave as the Speaker of the House of Representatives...