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...Kennedy's desk and all. You had the sense that this was a guy who loved being President, and not merely for the power of it. It was also for the engagement with the ideas of it, with the possibilities. Then I saw him years later, at a fund raiser right in the middle of the Monica thing, and there was a distance from that exuberance I had seen in the Oval Office, a caution. When I looked at him, I thought back to when he was first elected, and a lawyer friend of mine was so excited: "Finally...
...Texas. The small banquet room is overflowing with VCs, dotcomers and gearheads who have paid $1,000 a plate to meet the man who might be the next President. Some arrived at the last minute, crashing the party, while others, like Katy Boyd, 78, a veteran Republican fund raiser, had apparently been eyeing this moment for years. "This is what the valley has been waiting...
...dithered and ducked, coasted and claimed. They squandered their opportunities to create a coherent American agenda in the world. They failed to make us safer from nuclear, chemical or biological attack. Domestically their attitude came down to this: Reform the entitlements? We'd rather go to a fund raiser. Bring new life to dead schools? Rather go to Hollywood. Our children are poisoned by a sour, searing culture? Let them eat something else. Let them eat cake. Clinton and Gore have been unserious in their stewardship. What most characterized their two terms was summed up by the Vice President...
...smoking guns, maybe, but there have been newsmaking incidents, like that little fund raiser held by the sand-and-gravel industry a few years ago for a state-senate committee chairman the day before he was to consider a bill helpful to the industry. (He denies being swayed.) And earlier this year, senate majority leader Chellie Pingree received a letter from a Pfizer Corp. lobbyist saying the firm would no longer contribute to state Democrats after she and the house speaker pushed the prescription-drug bill...
...ghost of a four-term New York governor and failed presidential candidate named Al Smith turned out Thursday night to be the best debate moderator we've seen yet. George W. Bush and Al Gore, together on stage in Manhattan. For a fund-raiser - a uniquely joint, bipartisan fund-raiser, no less - that raised $900,000 for health care programs in New York. No issues, no attacks, no fuzzy math or see-how-much-I-know policy litanies. Just one-liners, one-liners, one-liners. Youngman for President...