This is a problem for Hillary and Bill. . . . It's not that Hungarians don't understand why we might gossip or joke about presidential affairs. They just shake their heads. I don't understand this. You are at peace.
Unemployment is low.
Soon after I arrived here in 1994, I interviewed Gabor Demszky, the capable and charismatic mayor of Budapest. Demszky was baffled that the press had quizzed Clinton about Flowers at all, much less suggested that he might lose the election over it. This is the sort of soap-opera drama that would make it impossible for Demszky to enter politics in the United States. Hungarians don't care with whom he or his wife is sleeping. They want him to ferret out city corruption and solve the parking problem.