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Backstage on the campaign, there were little fascinations: such as learning that there was a Secret Service agent who placed his hands firmly on the presidential hips and steered the Chief Executive from behind as the President went hand shaking down a rope line, the agent occasionally swatting the President on the right thigh as a jockey would a racehorse. ("It's code," another agent said cryptically when I asked...
When there were no hands left to shake along the rope line, Clinton glad-handed the police and anyone else he could find, almost reeling, staggering backward, to find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
...Bill Clinton is still campaigning. He is still working the rope lines, empathizing like all get-out. He astonished NATO foreign ministers when he answered a question about the long-term military security of Western Europe by saying his Administration had put 100,000 policemen on the street and created 10.5 million new jobs. And Clinton continues to stake out the middle ground by bringing up tiny but symbolic issues like school uniforms--practicing what some analysts call "the politics of miniaturization...
...shouldn't be expecting any help from Armey's army. Even a relatively accommodating Gingrich may not be able to pry any Armey loyalists away. Armey, who is from Texas, likes to compare the more moderate members of his own party to skittish calves. Look for him to rope them in. By the time his second term is over, Clinton may be longing for the golden days of the past Congress...
Brown wouldn't die as it tied it all up at 10 and thus sent the game into the whirlwind second overtime where Harvard found the end of its rope...