From the day William Jefferson Clinton became president, one noticed a hostility toward him that was nothing if not familial. Other presidents in recent memory have been furiously mocked by critics. Indeed, the story of Bill Clinton and his moral critics has been a saga of a Southern Baptist versus Southern Baptists. Republicans from other parts of the country, particularly the Northeast, indicated an inclination to censure the President. The drive for impeachment was spearheaded by men of Mr. Clinton's faith.
Family quarrels are always more mysterious and more intense than conflicts between strangers.
They were the ones he always wanted to meet, the ones he crossed the room one day to meet. He didn't say it, but I understood him to mean they were black kids sitting on the other side of the cafeteria. He is a Southerner, but educated in the North. The Bubba White House staff also has many Jews and Ivy League intellectuals. . . and feminists. Early last week, a friend phoned.