Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are advantages for the President too in ceding the spotlight and letting someone else gear up while you gear down. In his birthday toast, Jordan said, "Mr. President, if you're 53 and you wake up and nothing hurts, then you're dead." Clinton responded, "I'm not dead yet." Indeed, hurting is a way of life for the Clintons. Survival, like their mutual ambition, welds them together in a way that nothing can put asunder...
...million in "soft money"--unlimited contributions that are used for getting out the vote, putting "issue" ads on the air and covering other big expenses. That's about 45% more than the party raised in the same period four years ago. Isn't it time to pour the margaritas, toast the revving economy and give thanks to the party's ultra-motivated electorate...
...suggest that sticky problems over "ownership" of the reunion can be averted if you choose a site on neutral ground--an attractive location equally convenient to most of the clan. As many relatives as possible should be enlisted in putting on the show, whether to cook or deliver a toast...
...veteran of numerous Democratic presidential campaigns, refused to quash rumors that he'd been approached by unnamed Illuminati urging him to seek a spot on the national ticket. Citing concern over campaign-finance reform and a certain lack of zeal for supercentrist candidates Gore and Bradley (once considered the toasts of Beverly Hills, but if Beatty should run, perhaps just toast), the leading man whose most recent movie role was that of a Mad Hatter Senator, Jay Bulworth, threatened to inject color and charisma, and a dose of classic leftism, into a thus far pale political season. "The political system...
Instead, he asked to toast former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, an architect of America's failed war in Vietnam, to illustrate his topic. People would understand the point better if he didn't make it too personal. The important thing was to explain to folks that entering the public arena was an invitation to great sorrow but that it was a noble calling nonetheless. His toast to McNamara is reprinted below...