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Never mind that POTUS (Belt-speak for President of the United States) himself is not the one charged with doing the harassing - that dishonor goes to the top White House pastry chef, Roland Mesnier, who is alleged to have made unwanted sexual advances toward his assistant dessert-maker, Franette McCulloch, over an eight-year period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Clinton's Pastry Chef Too Sweet on the Help? | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

...with a drug sniffing dog, and in the process revealed a little-known presidential sleeping habit. The dog, whose name was "Darling," had recently sniffed out some heroin in the tennis shoes of a tourist on a cruise ship. Clinton petted the dog, who seemed quite taken with POTUS. In surmising why the pooch seemed so affectionate, Clinton dropped his little nugget: "Buddy slept with me last night. He probably smells Buddy." No details were available about the president's morning shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Cartagena — Here he Comes! | 8/31/2000 | See Source »

...course, Clinton will be back in the news before you know it (in fact, after He Left the Building, his motorcade stopped at a McDonald's, where POTUS ordered a chicken sandwich, and vegetarian Chelsea had an ice-cream cone), and he'll be campaigning for Gore in the fall, but as symbolism, it doesn't get much better than this (although we were still hoping for a real torch). As an added touch to emphasize that the transition had been made, the White House press plane broke down this afternoon (Gore's press plane had earlier suffered mechanical woes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elvis Leaves the Stage. Finally. | 8/15/2000 | See Source »

...fact that Dhanin Chearavanont, 57, chairman of the CP Group, is believed to be the largest single foreign investor in China and an economic adviser to Beijing. When an aide to campaign czar Harold Ickes asked "if it would be problematic if this individual met briefly W/ POTUS," the green light came quickly from the NSC: "O.K. by Asia Affairs." Among the 11 NSC officials informed of the meeting: Rand Beers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT DID CHINA WANT? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well. And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of ½ oz. cream of tartar dissolved in 3 pints of water, sweetened and flavored with lemon peel. They never rouse a sleeping drunk "for any reason, medicinal or otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Delirium Tremens | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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