SCRAPBOOK
Scrapbook HILLARY'S PAKISTAN POLICY President Clinton failed pathetically to persuade Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to test nuclear weapons, but then Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't fare...
...Well, said Bush, "some of this has to do with the intrusive nature of the national press," a group whose unscrupulous behavior has helped to "poison" the "well of public discourse...
...Among Republicans, there's growing opposition to McCain's bill...
...Fast-forward a decade...
...Is Lott going to support this...
...Not if it has an alternative...
...But Hillary had met earlier with Bhutto when she visited Pakistan, so there was a rationale for the meeting here...
...I'm not here to assign blame," he said—at least not to the one man who deserves it...
...in "science policy" from Vanderbilt in 1974...
...Where did such a climate come from...
...Scrapbook HILLARY'S PAKISTAN POLICY President Clinton failed pathetically to persuade Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to test nuclear weapons, but then Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't fare any better in her foray into Pakistani politics...
...Ashcroft, who has done yeoman's work in building opposition to the McCain bill, will propose earmarking at least half the tobacco-tax hikes for tax cuts for people with annual incomes below $30,000...
...Pike noted his 15 years as director of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists, and he was admirably modest about his own credentials...
...This was unusual, both because opposition leaders aren't usually hosted at the White House and because the current leader, Sharif, hadn't been invited at all...
...How did it go...
...That wasn't exactly the Hillary line...
...It's not that Bill Clinton is corrupt, or inept, or even that he seduced his intern, Bush explained...
...HIGHER EDUCATION Good news for the transgendered egghead community...
...But Lott's interest in passing something "anti-tobacco" trumps his concern over passing a bad bill...
...The problem with Washington, according to Bush, is the "innuendo," the "maelstrom of personal attacks and counter-charges"—indeed, the entire "political climate in our nation's capital...
...William Graham, once an Air Force project officer on the Minuteman ICBM, later science adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush, William Schneider, the one-time undersecretary of state for security assistance, and, yes, anti-nuke activist John Pike, whose testimony was requested by Michigan Democrat Carl Levin...
...Pike pulled a clinton when he learned that Vanderbilt had blown the whistle on his résumé, saying he had run out of money after earning most of the credits he needed and had claimed a degree because "that's what my momma told me to say...
...The two talked about politics and policy for 35 minutes, and it's clear now that Hillary didn't make much of an impression...
...Michael Dukakis, Bush explained, possesses a "Harvard boutique" mindset steeped in "liberalism and elitism...
...The wording was crucial...
...I don't want somebody from Harvard telling me what I can do and what I can't do," Bush told a crowd of non-Harvard graduates in Modesto, Calif., that year...
...After showering the elite inside the elite—^people "to whom I feel very, very close"—with paragraphs of enthusiastic praise, Bush gave his take on what is wrong with Washington...
...Is the Senate smart...
...And a few weeks ago, when Ashcroft and Orrin Hatch were preventing the bill from sailing through the Senate, Lott needled them to end the stall: "If the Senate is smart, it will stop this dilatory stuff and get [the bill] done this week...
...The folks in Modesto may have trouble believing this, but Bush fit right in...
...It should...
...And just when we were tempted to start feeling nostalgic for the Bush administration...
...Pike had previously told Senate staff that he earned a B.A...
...With good reason, it turned out...
...Pike— whose Web site proudly and probably accurately proclaims that he "did more than any single individual to throw sand into the gears" of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative—told the senators that he "attended Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., as an undergraduate...
...LOTT'S SMOKE SIGNALS How will Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, deal with John McCain's tobacco bill...
...Or, faced with Democratic threats to tie up the legislative calendar with mischievous tobacco-related amendments, will he capitulate along the lines of last year's chemical-weapons-treaty debate and push for a quick resolution...
...As the press release put it, they are "the first same-sex couple to guide the unique academic community fostered within each of Harvard's dormitories," and now, as recipients of the Caucus Visibility Award, they can further encourage "the visibility of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered faculty and staff...
...Sometimes progress proceeds by leaps and bounds...
...Eck and Austin have become famous at Harvard for being co-masters of Harvard's Lowell House—serving as housemother and, um, housemother to the students there...
...The Harvard University Gay & Lesbian Caucus has announced that it will this week bestow the Caucus Visibility Award to Diana Eck and Dorothy Austin...
...THE WITNESS AS FLAKE Veterans of the great Reagan-era debates over nuclear weaponry and the Star Wars missile defense are suddenly in demand again on Capitol Hill, what with all the hearings on the Chinese satellite-launch program and the India-Pakistan arms race...
...When McCain brought his package before the commerce committee, Lott urged the committee's Republicans to support it (Lott himself is a member of the committee...
...All but one, John Ashcroft, complied...
...On the contrary, she publicly taunted Sharif, insisting his manhood was at stake if he didn't explode some nukes...
...Last week, the former president addressed those very elites, in a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government...
...His colleagues are desperate to find out...
...THE AUTHENTIC BUSH Trolling for votes late in the 1988 presidential campaign, George Bush did what all moderate Republicans in search of conservative support seem to end up doing: He attacked Harvard...
...Thad Cochran's May 21 hearing on technology transfers to China almost had the flavor of a class reunion— there was Dr...
...At this rate, Harvard will be a sexual utopia before the decade is out...
...Sound familiar...
...But many Republicans who supported the bill are now having second thoughts, as they've come to understand the shortcomings in a measure that, according to one Senate GOP study, would result in roughly $800 billion in new taxes...
...She even offered to send him jewelry to wear with a dress, should he continue to act like a scared woman...
...Thus it was Lott who, earlier this year, circumvented Don Nickles, the Senate Republican supposedly formulating GOP tobacco policy, and asked McCain to draw up a bill...
...There's an elite inside the elite there...
...Vanderbilt, on the other hand, said that Pike had attended the school at various times from 1971 to 1978, but had never received a degree (reminding The Scrapbook of Bluto Blutarsky's lament in Animal House when Dean Wormer finally expelled the Delts: "Seven years down the drain...
...A few weeks before India detonated five nuclear devices, the first lady met in the Map Room of the White House with Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister and now leader of the chief opposition party in Pakistan...
...It's an explanation popular with quite a few Harvard graduates, many of whom now work at the White House...
...Later, after India went nuclear, Bhutto sneer-ingly rejected the Clinton position that Pakistan shouldn't follow suit...
Vol. 3 • June 1998 • No. 38
