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...Marc Rich confidant in Switzerland to Jack Quinn, the former White House counsel who lobbied Clinton on the pardon. The message reports on a conversation with Denise Rich, who was visiting Aspen with Dozoretz, identified as "B" in the e-mail. "Her friend B... got a call from Potus who said he was impressed by [Quinn's] last letter and that he wants to do it and is doing all possible to turn around" the White House counsels, it said. Denise Rich, it went on, "thinks he sounded very positive but that we have to keep praying...
...intriguing world. The sex-scandal-haunted black conservative! The mysterious, John Cage-like nebbish who infuriates his Republican sponsors by going liberal on them! The plucky woman jurist coming back from cancer! Make 'em all 40 years younger and tighten up those robes and you've got ratings gold. POTUS, make room for SCOTUS...
...campaign to win the ex-presidency--and history. "All kinds of Presidents had significant accomplishments who never get any credit in history because they couldn't control the story line," Clinton said at the start of his second term in 1997, recounts speechwriter Michael Waldman in his new book, POTUS Speaks. Controlling the story line, therefore, is at the top of Clinton's agenda. The pursuit has been manic and ambitious in the past months: the China trade bill, the Camp David summit, eight foreign trips to 14 countries, a year-end legislative showdown with Congress, strategizing his wife...
...diplomatic and historic significance of Clinton's trip to a country that has figured so prominently in his own political history, by far the most gratifying aspect has been the warm reception he's gotten from the average Vietnamese. State media downplayed the visit, and officials tried to limit POTUS's opportunities to press the flesh, so the outpouring of interest and enthusiasm was genuine...
Waldman led a study group at the Insititute of Politics last year, and commented on the number of familiar faces he saw in the audience of approximately 50 students. He said his. new book, POTUS Speaks, was fueled by the pizza that is a staple of IOP events. "If it's starchy or greasy, you know...