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...shook everyone's hand who won their divisions except for the girl in the 15-18 year old division," Alonzo said. "He kissed her, but he never kissed me. I was disappointed...
...That spring] shook me loose from an academic track," says Norr. In order to avoid the war, he went to his medical exam with peace symbols painted on his underwear and antiwar slogans on his feet. After getting sent to a psychiatrist. Norr was deemed mentally unfit and received a medical deferment...
...best of times or, depending on your political and philosophical outlook, one of the foulest and most depraved. Rebellion seemed to be leaping from city to city, continent to continent, by some fiery process of contagion. Vietnam unleashed the Tet offensive; France shook with the revolutionary "events of May"; radical students filled the streets of Mexico City, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Prague. In the U.S., Chicago swirled into near anarchy as cops battled antiwar demonstrators gathered at the Democratic Convention. And everywhere from Amsterdam to Haight-Ashbury, a generation was getting high, making love, acting...
...would consider reversing the order. The Clinton White House also had its end-run press strategy, whereby Clinton used talk shows and electronic town meetings, rather than dreary old press conferences with the dreary old national press corps, to commune with the people. To aggravate things further, Stephanopoulos & Co. shook up the White House travel office, which, however mismanaged, did provide first-class creature comforts -- at first-class prices -- to reporters on presidential trips...
Such startling candor shook the White House just as it was warming up the 100-days fog machine. But behind the scenes, many officials were quietly grateful. Panetta's comments echoed warnings from top aides in recent weeks that Clinton was, as one put it, "everywhere, and nowhere, at once." Though officials dutifully huffed that Panetta was "off the message," they hastened to note that they concurred fully with his conclusions. Within days, Clinton had throttled back; his proposal for reforming campaign finance had been postponed, and measures on crime and welfare reform were sidetracked. As a relieved Democrat...