FORTY-SEVEN

[qrst297]

On the day after the 'oil painting'
(http://www.oilpaintingscn.com),election, I was back at the White House
for a celebration on the South Lawn with my staff, cabinet, other
appointees, campaign workers, and Democratic Party officials. In my
remarks, I mentioned that the night before, as I waited for the
election results, I had held a reunion with people who had worked for
me in Arkansas when I was attorney
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more normal life. They had served 'china oil painting'
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general and governor, and that ��I told them something I want to tell
you?that is, I have always been a very hardworking, kind of
hard-driving person. I��m always focused on the matter before me.
Sometimes I don��t say ��Thank you�� enough. And I��ve always been kind
ohard on myself, and sometimes I think, just by omission, I��m too hard
on the people who work here.�� Our team had accompli
result of my own early mistakes, the first two years of intensely
negative press coverage, the loss of Congress in ��94, the financial
and emotional toll of Whitewater, too much personal tragedy, and the
constant demands inherent in trying to turn the country around. I had
done
my best to keep my own and everybody else��s spirits up, and to keep us
all from being too distracted by the tragedies, the trash, and the
mishaps. Now that the American people had given us another term, I was
hoping that in the next four years we would be freer to do the
public��s business without the turmoil and strife of the first term. I
had been inspired by a statement made in late October by the archbishop
of Chicago, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, a tireless advocate for social
justice whom Hillary and I knew and admired very much. Bernardin was
desperately ill and didn��t have long to live when he s��A dying person
do
waste the precious gift of time given to us on acrimony and division.��
In the week after the election, several people central to the
administration announced their intention to leave by the end of the
year, including Leon Panetta and Warren Christopher. Chris had lived on
an airplane for four years, and Leon had seen us through the budget
battlesnot to mention staying up on election night playing hearts with
me.'handmade oil paintings' (http://www.oilpaintingscn.com), Both of
them wanted to gohome to California and to a
would miss them. On Novem-ber 8, I announced that Erskine Bowles would
become the new chief of staff. His youngest child was off to college
now, and Erskine was free to serve again, though it would cost him an
arm and a leg to do so, as he once again gave up his lucrative business
ventures. Thank goodness, Nancy Hernreich and Betty Currie were staying.
By this time, Betty knew most of my friends around the country, could
handle a lot of the phone traffic, and was a wonderful help to me in
the office. Nancy understood the dyna
for both involvement in and distance from the details of the day-to-day
work. She did everything she could to make it easier for me to do my
job, and kept the Oval Office operations in great shape. My then
presidential aide, Stephen Goodin, was leaving, but we hadlined up a
good replacement: Kris Engskov, who had been at the White House from
the start and whom I first met in north Arkansas way back in 1974
during my first campaign. Since the President��s aide sat just outside
the Oval Office door, 'oil painting reproductions'
(http://www.oilpaintingscn.com),was with me all of the time, and was
always by my side, it was good to have someone I��d known so long and
who liked so much doing the job. I was also glad to have Janis Kearny,
the White House diarist. Janis had been the editor of theArkansas State
Press , Little Rock��s black newspaper, and she wa
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