Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CLINTON'S SECRET AGENT...
Once inside the Clinton operation, Morris drove staff members crazy just as he'd made Republican operatives boil over--by becoming Clinton's secret agent, bypassing the hierarchy and talking privately with the President on the phone and after hours. "Mystery," he likes to say, "is an integral part of power." For a while he was known only as Charlie--so named by Clinton--the unseen force that hijacked speeches and made policies change course. Chief of staff Leon Panetta threatened to quit unless Clinton brought Morris into the structure. Deputy chief of staff Ickes, his adversary since the 1960s...
...that Chelsea Clinton would be making her speaking debut at the Democratic Convention. The New York Times reported that she had been pressing for a role and that the White House was considering it. What better way to get prime-time coverage than to roll out your best-kept secret, a truly new voice? And what better way to trump the Doles' mantra--my family values are better than your family values--than to show off a poised, well-mannered teenager...
...this week at the doors to the United Center as thousands of delegates, Democratic staff and members of the press struggle to enter the hall amid tight but amateurishly disorganized security. Michael Jordan, whose Bulls play in the Center, never saw it like this. To prevent terrorist attacks, the Secret Service has installed concrete barriers blocks away from the entrances, creating a long ragged line of delegates and reporters hauling cameras, radios, telephones and computers toward the House That Jordan Built. Once there, they must pass through metal detectors so sensitive that they pick up the holograms in credit cards...
...this week at the doors to the United Center as thousands of delegates, Democratic staff and members of the press struggle to enter the hall amid tight but amateurishly disorganized security. Michael Jordan, whose Bulls play in the Center, never saw it like this. To prevent terrorist attacks, the Secret Service has installed concrete barriers blocks away from the entrances, creating a long ragged line of delegates and reporters hauling cameras, radios, telephones and computers toward the House That Jordan Built. Once there, they must pass through metal detectors so sensitive that they pick up the holograms in credit cards...