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Article: `Not This . . . All Over Again'; For White House Aides, Headaches Anew
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- The Washington Post
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- December 21, 1993
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At the White House yesterday, it was deja vu all over again. All
over again.
Just when it looked like things were under control and they could
attend to matters like the 1995 budget, just when they had concluded
a global trade deal and were seeing the president's approval rating
shoot up in the polls, White House aides yesterday found themselves
again scrambling to deal with the stories that would not die.
On the surface, it was business as usual. Clinton, joined by talk
show host Oprah Winfrey, signed a new law to establish a national
database to track child abusers. He awarded $50 million in grants to
put new police officers on the street. And he closeted himself with
top aides for a ...