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...thirds thought that if he wasn't, they wanted no part of him. By August those numbers were reversed. More than two-thirds now thought he had lied, and, after Clinton confirmed that in his televised confession-of-sorts on the 17th, two-thirds no longer wanted him to quit...
...Patton. While acknowledging that the modern ultra-connected economy is less forgiving than at any other time in history, Greenspan chastised both borrowers and lenders for irresponsibility and bad risk assessment, attacked the nonparticipation strategy of China and India (and by association Malaysia), and in general told the ailing: Quit whining and clean up your economic acts, and free capitalism will save...
...Abandoning such a politically suicidal position is exactly what Clinton should do to save his presidency, according to Sen. Orrin Hatch. "If he'll quit playing this legal game and start being what he is, a basically warm winning person whom the American people have liked from the beginning," said the Senate Judiciary Committee chair on "Face the Nation" Sunday, "my gosh, I think the President could get through this. But he's starting to lose." Hatch was just about the only person in Washington to penetrate the White House's weekend wall of silence, calling the President from...
...from the meeting, since Yeltsin is politically moribund and Clinton is scandal-scarred and unable to offer the Russians serious assistance. U.S. officials fretted about the meeting until the last moment, wondering whether Yeltsin would still be in office when they arrived at the Kremlin, or whether he might quit as soon as they left...
...discuss the future shortly before Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko and his whole Cabinet. Unlikely to be anything but lackluster on the stump, Chernomyrdin would now gain enormous advantage in a potential electoral struggle with more dynamic campaigners like retired General Alexander Lebed if Yeltsin were to quit and make him acting chief executive. By one account, it was Berezovsky too who unexpectedly called on Vice Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais, the most pugnacious reformer in the Cabinet, the evening before Kiriyenko's dismissal and bluntly told him, "It is time to go quietly...