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...Democracy's Discontent, the recent pro-virtue book by liberal scholar Michael Sandel, got a column-long tribute from conservative George Will. The "communitarians," such as Amitai Etzioni, draw praise from the left (Clinton and Al Gore) and the right (Jack Kemp and Bennett). And Bennett's attack on tabloid TV came at the suggestion of a Democrat, Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...fortress where the White House inner circle lodged and the President would soon arrive. That made it the natural place for Morris, Bill Clinton's essential campaign adviser, fidgety genius and imponderable co-author of the election-year comeback. One of the messages was from the Star, a supermarket tabloid. Could Dick call back right away...
What Clinton's aides all knew for sure was what their guts were telling them: if the story was true, it was meltdown time. But maybe it was containable. A supermarket tabloid, they figured, might not be the most credible accuser. As the train headed for Michigan City, Indiana, its last stop before Chicago, McCurry and other Clinton aides talked about whether to present the bad news to the President, who had to keep focused on finishing his acceptance speech. Deputy chief of staff Evelyn Lieberman urged that Clinton be told right away...
...wife and writing the resignation statement that would be released the next morning, after he and his wife left town and headed back to Connecticut. "I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism," was his only comment on the tabloid allegations. Still, Clinton aides were furious that in his statement Morris credited himself with helping the President "come back from being buried in a landslide" and that Morris ended by comparing himself to Robert Kennedy. Like himself, the strategist wrote, Kennedy regarded politics as an "honorable adventure." Morris stopped short of comparing...
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