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...then record his observations and recollections after leaving the White House. This book is the fruit of that second set of tapes, and it's by turns intimate and dispassionately historical. With its chronological account of Clinton's then contemporaneous comments on the Middle East peace process, his Republican opponents and just about everything else under the sun (except for Whitewater and, for the most part, the Monica Lewinsky scandal), this book will be a boon to historians. The casual reader, however, might delight more in Branch's glimpses of an unguarded President: cold-stricken and hunched over a kitchen...
This move could indeed put Chicago over the top: eleventh-hour schmoozing by Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin helped secure wins for London and Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Games. So expect Republican griping that Obama can?t keep his priorities straight. But this flip-flop could land those rowers in Lake Michigan...
...expect to materially alter the bill's structure, he plans to use the markup period to address concerns from fellow Democrats over its cost. Baucus not only must keep the 13 Democrats on the 23-member committee on board but also hopes to woo Senator Olympia Snowe, the sole Republican member expected to vote for the package...
...into a list of his problems with the small-business provisions in the House bill. The two men exchange cards, and Kratovil promises to follow up. But as Bauman departs, he remains a Kratovil skeptic. "The jury's still out on if I'll vote for him," the lifelong Republican says. Luckily for Kratovil and his fellow freshmen, the election is still more than a year away...
...first course would make liberals in his caucus happier; the second would be preferred by moderates. But either way, the chances of a public option surviving in the Senate seem unlikely. If it is voted down, as expected, that may create an opening for Republican Senator Olympia Snowe - who is the only Republican still considering a yes vote on the health bill - to come in with her so-called trigger proposal to create a public plan as a fallback if private insurance companies do not do enough to bring down health-care costs. Snowe refrained from offering that amendment...