THE PRESIDENT'S PRIVATE LIFE
The President's Private Life Bob Woodward reports in the Washington Post that independent counsel Ken Starr's office has been interviewing people about Bill Clinton's "private life." The White...
...Eleven times, and you should lose your license...
...In a private meeting, Bauer had urged the speaker to delay the MFN vote...
...And Boris Yeltsin...
...He declared there are simply times when he won't go along meekly...
...This is an administrative position working with the advertising and publicity staff...
...A news photo of him suffering through the entertainment is the very picture of misery...
...Where does this leave matters, besides confused...
...The next day, French president Jacques Chirac assured Yeltsin that he had done the right thing...
...Restraint is a good thing, after all...
...And though the current cast of Supreme Court justices is deeply divided ideologically, this was the ninth time out of the 11 reversals that the justices ruled unanimously contra Reinhardt...
...The photographer was Larry Downing of Newsweek, but because he was wearing a Secret Service pin occasionally provided to members of the media, Clinton apparently thought Downing was a member of the security detail...
...Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was out like a light, out-sleeping Reagan on his most tired day...
...Too bad the president doesn't feel the same way...
...Only it almost didn't: Thomason had neglected to book a Hispanic group, which error he remedied before all the G-7 (or -8) partying began...
...Gary Bauer, the speaker disparagingly told his men, had admitted to him that he was only doing "this China stuff" for fund-raising purposes...
...How Not to Succeed, Newt On or about June 11, according to Liu Qing of the organization Human Rights in China, Beijing was engineering a savage prison beating of Wei Jingsheng, the country's most notable political detainee...
...Help Wanted_ The Weekly Standard has a full-time position available for an entry-level staff assistant...
...In principle, most of us would probably go along with the president's friends and agree that prosecutors should show restraint in their investigations...
...Or fax us at (202) 293-4901...
...Why, Harry Thomason, of course, Hollywood producer, Travelgate impresario, and husband of Arkansan Linda Bloodworth...
...Conference chairman John Boehner said maybe he'd erred...
...Maybe, but the battle to succeed him as Republican leader continues...
...Kool and the G-7 If you're the president of the United States and want to give your fellow world leaders a dose of American culture, who do you turn to...
...Overturned Again When the Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, it marked the eleventh time this term the high court has reversed Ninth Circuit judge Stephen Reinhardt (subject of a May 5 profile in The Weekly Standard by Matthew Rees, "Judge Reinhardt, the Overturned...
...What does it mean to be overturned by the Supreme Court 11 times in one year...
...For that matter, most of us would probably agree that even presidents have a "private life," and that the distinction between private and public is worth upholding...
...In a meeting with House Republicans early last week, Bauer's plea on behalf of Chinese liberty was recounted by Gingrich in a slightly different way...
...It's even a good thing for people who aren't prosecutors, and not just in the public sphere...
...Paxon, by the way, delivered a strong anti-MFN speech the next day...
...Majority leader Dick Armey apologized abjectly...
...Spoken like a true gentleman...
...There's no modern precedent for a judge having so many of his opinions reversed in one Supreme Court term...
...The White House responds with outrage that looks orchestrated...
...They didn't, needless to say...
...After Clinton finished chatting to "an attractive woman" in a roped-off buffer area, he summoned a photographer standing nearby...
...He tried to appeal to Gingrich's partisan interests, telling him he'd heard that Republican fund-raising letters criticizing Clinton administration China policy had generated a lot of money...
...Starr, for his part, says his investigators have done no such thing...
...It was, you might say, a spectacular that looked like America...
...It's embarrassing if it happens once...
...How to Succeed Newt After the tax cut passed the House last week, the Washington Post said speaker Newt Gingrich had improved his "beleaguered" position...
...The week's winner of the sweepstakes to succeed Gingrich: Paxon...
...This is my life, and nobody's going to tell me what to do...
...He again proved himself smarter than his image, retiring to his hotel room before the show began...
...Maybe next time he should send the rest of the heads of state some of his favorite vodka...
...A House GOP conference on June 23 amounted to a cattle show among four candidates, the same four Republican leaders who refused to cave with Gingrich and vote for President Clinton's disaster-relief bill...
...The latest evidence of his own lack of restraint, and his persistence in conducting his "private" affairs in at least the semi-public eye, comes from Wash-ingtonian magazine, which reports in its July issue on an encounter at last April's White House correspondents' dinner...
...This didn't shore up Gingrich's already shaky credibility with his colleagues, and Bauer plans to confront him on the matter next week...
...So the president asked Downing to procure a business card from the woman...
...On our side of the Pacific, House speaker Newt Gingrich was striking out at Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, who has made himself America's foremost critic of China appeasement...
...Downing dutifully carried out the president's request, but before handing the card to Clinton he ran it by an agent of the Secret Service, which generally tries to prevent people from handing items to the president...
...How did the boys like it...
...They were asked to explain their votes...
...This made Clinton none too happy, and he let Downing have it: "You don't have to ask for permission when I tell you to do something...
...German chancellor Helmut Kohl looked particularly distraught...
...And what a show he gave them in Denver, on a big Saturday night during the economic summit: Kool & the Gang, the Sounds of Blackness, Eartha Kitt, Lyle Lovett, Michael Bolton, pow-wow dancers, and—straight from the 1960s—the girl group Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes...
...Yeltsin allowed as to how he had caught some of the performance on television, then feigned snoring to show what he had thought of it...
...Several members of Congress—including some who sided with Newt on MFN—were taken aback, since they knew Bauer had put his organization at some risk by agitating against MFN, given the pro-MFN views of some of his biggest donors...
...Whip Tom DeLay said he didn't like the pork in the bill...
...Only Bill Paxon, who chairs the leadership meetings, was defiant...
...Please send your resume to: Business Manager, The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC 20036...
...Being reversed is roughly like being given a speeding ticket...
Vol. 2 • July 1997 • No. 42
