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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

I don't care much about Monica.  After all, I'm sure some of his 
conquests weren't government employees, and he probably didn't perform 
any significant favors for them in return.

I remember him as a stooge of big corporations who accomplished their 
main goal for them early on in his presidency.

Gene GeRue wrote:

> Now we know how many "friends in China" he must have made, and who "our 
> friends in China" are.   He had me guessing for eight years.
>
>
> Clinton remains a hero to me. And he's getting better. For a look at what 
> he's up to today, go to:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092102036.html
>
> It starts with this:
>
> Bill Clinton, Beyond the White House
>
> By Tina Brown
>
> Thursday, September 22, 2005; Page C01
>
> The big surprise of Bill Clinton's Global Initiative conference at the 
> Sheraton Hotel in New York last week was how strangely calming it was. You 
> would expect to emerge begging for mercy from a three-day talkathon on the 
> world's most intractable problems emceed by history's most garrulous 
> president -- especially if you were a survivor of one of his book tour gigs.
>
> To be sure, Clinton, the big intellectual showoff, had never been less than 
> brilliant on his feet, but he never knew when to stop. And all that 
> promiscuous lateral thinking ended up sucking the air out of the room. We 
> got so tired of his lack of discipline that by 2000 we thought we were 
> ready for a presidency that operated by assertion. Five years later we see 
> what that's brought.
>         
> Today the former president looks like a wiser man (and it's not just the 
> glasses).
>
> Maybe it's the effect of his brush with death. He's pared himself down to 
> the essentials, symbolized by the slimmed physique and the paternal reading 
> glasses. His style was always inclusive even when he was on the attack. But 
> now you feel he's shed the psychic baggage of the impeachment years and 
> with it the toxic rock and roll of his constantly roiling reputation.
>
> The new, honed Clinton on the rostrum made sure that any earnest 
> hand-wringing grappled with the raw brutality of irreconcilables. He even 
> saw to it that the panels he moderated actually ran on time.
>
> Every session began
>
>
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