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...Problem Solver...
...problem solver," says Burpee, whoalso works for Harvard Real Estate. "He made suchan impact on every problem that was there andalways came up with a different angle...
Perhaps the Clinton presidency is just getting under way. After a nearly disastrous start that left him questioning his own performance, Clinton has repositioned himself as a problem solver. He and his aides are learning that they can frame the debate on only one issue at a time, and sometimes not even then. And while there are plenty of questions outside the White House about the wisdom of Clinton's course, there is also palpable relief inside that the President is finally on the move. As Hillary Clinton told 150 White House officials at a midnight East Room celebration following...
...into fatalism, an assumption that they must stay that way. Eagleburger says he learned from Baker's Middle East diplomacy that persistence in a hopeless task can pay off. But the most interesting paradox about Eagleburger is that a man who is by nature an activist -- a lifelong problem solver who fills up a room with his presence and energy -- also insists that "there are sometimes problems," such as Yugoslavia, "for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution...
...uses his full name Henry Ross Perot only to sign checks and never ever the first initial H.) Is he simply what he purports to be: the ultimate straight arrow, the billionaire who never lusted after money, a self-effacing idealist uncontaminated by personal ambition, a brilliant problem solver who never ducked a challenge and a patriotic outsider untouched by the muck of political horse trading? Or is there, as critics claim, a darker side to Perot: thin-skinned, self-righteous, unwilling to compromise and potentially authoritarian? Does Perot, in short, have the right stuff to be President...