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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Democrats had a more stable approach to agriculture than Republicans have, so what we're basically going to need is a Democrat-controlled Congress to get agriculture back in whack...
...Hello, everybody ... Mr. President [to Gerald Ford, sitting in the first row], I hereby designate you hall monitor. You have my permission, sir, to whack anybody who gets out of line ... How you all doin'? Just fine, just fine. Look, if I can do this, anybody can do it ... You O.K., really? Everything all right? Did you get enough to eat?" In reply to someone's question as to where Don Imus was going to sit: "No comment. No fair to ask me questions...
...through the door." This fabricated scenario is physically impossible because the door was initially locked and then opened for us remotely. Barnicle also states that "in the lobby, the floor was being waxed. It was a tad bit slippery, and nobody wanted these future leaders to fall down and whack their noggins." Wrong again. The floor was being sanded and refinished, but not waxed; it was not at all slippery, and there was no danger of anyone slipping and falling...
...bigger debate was whether what Saddam had done warranted Washington's response. "A Western whack on an Arab state, however unsavory, causes twitchiness," says an official in Kuwait, "and if the reason is not immediately apparent, the twitchiness increases." To calm the twitch, Perry spent three days in five Arab and Middle Eastern capitals. Perry's argument, according to a Western official in Kuwait: "Saddam showed his capacity to do reasonably complicated military operations effectively in a short time, and if he got away with such actions in the north, he would be emboldened to try the same where...
...under the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR), would remain in Bosnia for one year. Americans are not particularly attentive to the complexities of foreign affairs, but voters would certainly notice if the timing of withdrawal unraveled. And it would hand Bob Dole and the Republicans a "quagmire" stick to whack Clinton with...