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Article: Display Error: Clinton's emotional style.(Bill Clinton)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 20, 2000
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One of the most characteristic Clinton moments was at one of the- roughly five-Ron Brown memorial services. A camera caught the president laughing after the ceremony, so-like a gunslinger reaching for his revolver-he produced a tear and wiped it away in a perfect, rapid-fire gesture of grief. Clinton could handle emotion the way Michael Jordan handled a basketball, with utter command, making it do things no one would have thought possible.
The Ron Brown tear was notable, of course, mostly for its falsity. It captured a seeming paradox of the Clinton years: that our most "emotionally open" president was also one of the least honest. But this isn't really a ...