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...unfortunate comparison of all: to George Bush. While Gergen was predicting last week that Clinton had got in touch with his inner President -- "reaching deep inside himself to find what he believed was right" -- in pulling the Guinier nomination, an invitation designed by artist Peter Max to a fund raiser was landing in the mailboxes of hundreds of Democratic givers around the country. The cover drawing shows a hundred faces of the President. The symbolism is eloquent and deadly, since what Clinton needs so desperately right now is to show Americans only...
Even with Gergen, Clinton will still rely on a staff that has almost no White House or executive experience. Political director Rahm Emanuel, a campaign fund raiser, is unsuited as a party enforcer and is widely blamed for being too enamored of Hollywood for the President's good. White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, a former Watergate committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani...
...backstage pass dangling from his neck, Bill Clinton is not squandering his populist image. Rather, he's showing himself to be too much a man of the people, reverting to white-trash form, one more grinning geek queuing up at Graceland. "Back when I saw him at ((a fund raiser at producer)) Ted Field's house," says a politically active movie $ star, "with his mouth open, star struck, I said, 'Oh, my God. Oh, Jesus.' I think he likes people. And I think he genuinely likes famous people...
...Berkery (4), Dowing (4), Walton (3), Winters (2), Chelus (2), Burke (2) Buxton, collgan. UNH cluck (2), Hare (4), Raiser, fellow (2), Karnan...
...raise money to bring Washington officials to campus next year, club members plan to hold a fund raiser this spring...