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...Friday, with a nod to the influence of Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and Al Gore, Clinton signed an executive order protecting one third of U.S. forest land from logging and road construction. The order, which affects 58 million acres in 39 states, is the most aggressive protection act since Jimmy Carter designated huge swaths of Alaskan wilderness off-limits to developers. Environmental lobbyists, already pleased with Clinton's record of land protection, are thrilled by his latest move. "This is a great moment in history," Ken Rait, director of the Heritage Forest Campaign, told the New York Times...
...There are, of course, vehement objections to the far-reaching order, which many see as the President's bid to hijack the legacy created by Teddy Roosevelt's use of similar executive orders at the turn of the century. Others accuse the President of last-gasp politicking in an attempt to boost his own profile on way or another - if the floundering Mideast peace talks won't give cement his legacy, critics gripe, perhaps he thinks this move will...
...Clinton will hang around Hollywood with his glitzy pals, Westchester County, N.Y., at the new family digs or Senator Hillary Clinton's office on the Hill remains to be seen. This much is known: at age 54, he is the second youngest ex-President in American history, after Teddy Roosevelt, and he has many days ahead...
...stump. His accent has no thickener the way it might if he were trying to give the Disney version of the tour. And he doesn't go the other way either, trotting out 10[cent]words like sylvan or making wide detours to talk about Teddy Roosevelt. His voice is easy. Meanwhile, the recount continues...
...game safari, a post-presidential, pre-presidential journey, with Bill this time in the role of native bearer, or ornamental helpmate, or West Coast adjunct. And now there's a good chance she will have a Georgetown house that is as grandiose as the caravan that Teddy Roosevelt took into the bush. Have you noticed her radiance in recent photographs - something in her face you have not seen before? It is the radiance of arrival...