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  • President Clinton returned today†to the university wherehe didn't inhale, didn't get drafted, and didn't get a degree.

    - Maureen Dowd
      On President Clinton's visit to Oxford where as a Rhodes Scholar he had tried marijuana, avoided conscription, and left to attendYale Law School. In the NewYork Times, 9  Jun.

  • There are people around here who think Hillary Clinton is responsible for the weather.

    - Michael D McCurry
      In the NewYork Times,7  Jan. New revelations about the First Lady's role in Whitewater land sales and the firing of the presidential travel office had coincided with a heavy Washington snowfall.

  • It is†classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

    - David Maraniss
      On President Clinton's letter as a graduate student, 3 Dec 1969, to arrange RO TC enlistment to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, a position that was to haunt his future campaigning. First in His Class.

  • Mr Clinton, according toToni Morrison, the Nobel prize- winning novelist, is our first black President, the first to come from the broken home, the alcoholic mother, the under-the-bridge shadows of our ranking system.

    - Arthur Miller
      In the NewYork Times,15 Oct.

  •    Meanwhile, let us give Clinton his due. Lincoln to one side, he does better funerals than any American president in an increasingly murderous history.

    - Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr Vidal
      Virgin Islands: Essays1992^1997.

  •    We are, said President Clinton, the one indispensableor was it indisposable?nation.

    - Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr Vidal
      Virgin Islands: Essays1992^1997.

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