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...vacationing in Hawaii, the faxes amounted to ransom notes, lists of demands to be met in return for Dole's support when a lame-duck Congress votes this week on the world-trade pact known as GATT. On the receiving end were White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. Within 24 hours, all three were seated across from Dole, sipping orange juice and coffee in a private room at the Palladin, a tony Washington restaurant. Why meet there instead of at the White House? Because the Palladin is situated...
...wanted to do after learning that North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had told a Raleigh newspaper that the President "better have a bodyguard" if he ever visited his state. "I'm ready to go to North Carolina right now," an angry Clinton informed White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who brought him the news last Tuesday. The deep strike in enemy territory was quickly dismissed as impulsive. "We can't just react every time Jesse Helms decides to push his crazy buttons," said a senior official...
...they too are gone. The U.S. has capitulated to the cowardice and moral relativism of Britain and France. No longer do American officials describe the struggle as that of victim and aggressor; now it is an "intractable" civil war. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta sounded the new line this week: "Our only hope is that at some point the parties recognize that there's no use continuing the kind of carnage that's going on there at the present time." Panetta speaks as if all the parties were equal, as if the victim were as responsible...
...consolidate his party base. If that means dwelling on civil rights, abortion rights and labor issues, it's probably an agenda that would appeal to a too narrow slice of the ever more conservative electorate. As a rough blueprint for post-apocalypse strategy, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, with the help of several other top aides, produced a memo one described as a "thought piece." The memo proposed that the President should attempt to govern from a "forceful center," working with Republicans who want to share the middle on matters like welfare reform, health care and the line...
Gone too, before long, may be a fair number of Clinton's inner circle. Rumors are everywhere in Washington that the Election Day debacle will give chief of staff Panetta the ammunition to complete his overhaul of the White House, something that Clinton has resisted. "If the same cast of characters is in place three months from now, ((Clinton's)) a goner," says one Administration official...