The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White HouseThe Agenda is a day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account of Bill Clinton's White House. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Woodward shows how Clinton and his advisers grappled with questions of lasting importance -- the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs. One of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published, this edition includes an afterword on Clinton's efforts to save his presidency. |
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... talk with other sources and return to most of them again and again as necessary. When this reinterviewing raised new questions, I was able to return a third or fourth time to key sources to answer those new questions. At times I ...
... talk with other sources and return to most of them again and again as necessary. When this reinterviewing raised new questions, I was able to return a third or fourth time to key sources to answer those new questions. At times I ...
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... talking about it all summer with a new intensity. But he wasn't convinced that he was the one. "I just don't know if I want to do it," he told her once. "I don't know if it's worth it." But she knew. She had known it for months, since ...
... talking about it all summer with a new intensity. But he wasn't convinced that he was the one. "I just don't know if I want to do it," he told her once. "I don't know if it's worth it." But she knew. She had known it for months, since ...
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... talk as the prototype of a campaign speech that, while not yet fully formed, contained strands of a powerful message. AFTER DINNER, Clinton, Reich, and Richard G. Stearns, another Rhodes classmate and a Massachusetts judge, went over to ...
... talk as the prototype of a campaign speech that, while not yet fully formed, contained strands of a powerful message. AFTER DINNER, Clinton, Reich, and Richard G. Stearns, another Rhodes classmate and a Massachusetts judge, went over to ...
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... talk to congressional Democrats, only to return each time to Little Rock to spill out his frustration. No one knew how to seize the moment, he said. Yet Hillary felt her husband's own criticism was not just economic or political but a ...
... talk to congressional Democrats, only to return each time to Little Rock to spill out his frustration. No one knew how to seize the moment, he said. Yet Hillary felt her husband's own criticism was not just economic or political but a ...
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... talk alone. Clinton asked Stephanopoulos to talk about himself. In the 1988 Dukakis presidential campaign, Stephanopoulos said, he had been in charge of rapid-response communications and joke writing, two of Dukakis's distinct failures ...
... talk alone. Clinton asked Stephanopoulos to talk about himself. In the 1988 Dukakis presidential campaign, Stephanopoulos said, he had been in charge of rapid-response communications and joke writing, two of Dukakis's distinct failures ...
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