Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tested legs, partly because he feels good--his kickoff speech went well, close to 100 media types are covering him, and the latest polls put him just a few points behind Gore in New Hampshire--and partly because he has only half an hour before sunset, and he wants to lead us to the banks of the Mississippi before then. "I want you all to see the riv-er the way I see the riv-er," he says, letting the word roll out slowly, a promise of ineffable revelations to come. Events such as this, designed to show...
...swamp the old planks. Ernestine panics: "Bill! I'll go with you! If we drown, we drown together!" To avert disaster, Bradley's people tell the media to go out in mini packs. An aide complains, "It's just a bunch of pencils"--reporters, not the cameras they want. This is, after all, about pretty pictures...
...seen everything except the shrine: the basketball hoop in Bradley's backyard, where young Bill worked on his shots until all hours. At the beginning of the tour, he mentioned it and said, "I'm sure you don't need to see that." He wouldn't want to be accused of exploiting his myth. Besides, in the morning he'll be holding a press conference underneath the basket...
...this time around, both sides have promised not to touch the Social Security surplus, which will run about $147 billion next year. Republican leaders don't want to take the blame for scooping out an extra $14 billion just to keep the government running--especially after conservatives got so angry with them when they did it in 1998. "This year, if spending means so much to him, the President will have to justify dipping into the Social Security trust fund," says John Czwartacki, spokesman for Senate majority leader Trent Lott...
...Puerto Rican terrorists who had been in jail for years? Though good guys Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter backed the clemency, was it just a human-rights issue? Or was it political husbandry (and a bad job of it, too) for Hillary?s New York Senate run? Republicans want to know. Clinton ain?t telling. The White House braved the ghosts of Nixon one more time Thursday and invoked executive privilege, waving away congressional subpoenas for documents and witnesses from the likes of Vince Foster sleuth Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. "The president...