Word: secret
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...Yellow Oval Room of the White House residence, Clinton had been convening weekly strategy sessions that included members of the team. The meetings were small and secret, attended by Clinton, Morris, Gore, Schoen, Ickes, chief of staff Leon Panetta, senior adviser George Stephanopoulos and then deputy chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Schoen had persuaded a reluctant Morris to let Penn get involved, and he was beginning to attend. Penn and Schoen were disturbed to find that the President, a commanding figure, was not in control of his White House. The liberal institution was running itself. The White House staff...
...assembly of the November 5 group, as the new Clinton message team called itself, began a few months before the secret meeting at Squier's town house. In late 1994, Schoen was standing in a departure lounge at a Nashville airport, cursing his luck at missing a plane, when his beeper went off: "Call Dick Morris." Schoen dialed the familiar Connecticut number. "Doug," Morris told him, "I have this client, but I'm underground...
...voter who had press credentials and a ticket on Air Force One--riding as the magazine pool reporter in the great plane's Newt Gingrich Memorial Steerage Compartment, back behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
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...
...seeing that Bill Clinton was the most intensely physical flesh presser since Lyndon Johnson (and he's in better shape than L.B.J. was). Clinton plunged in ecstatically--a nightmare for the Secret Service, whose taut, grim faces and darkly frisking eyes contrasted almost hilariously with the happy, dazzled faces of the faithful. Clinton's long, curiously angled fingers (like those of E.T.) reached yearningly, heliotropically, blindly into crowds (swat! swat! on the thigh), from which he emerged flushed and dazed and looking 10 years old. Assembling trivia, one noticed that Clinton, a big man, wears enormous suits that produce...