We Already Know He’s Not Able To Run Again
Since President Clinton always seems to be looking for cash, the Washington Post suggested he might make some bucks by suing over his fall at golfer Greg Norman’s house.
Philadelphia’s M. Mark Mendel, whom the Post dubbed the “king of slip and fall lawyers,” said: “This is a terrible situation: Look how he is going to balloon when he can’t jog.
“For the president, I’m looking for $375,000, and $100,000 for the wife for loss of relations. Nothing for the cat. Nothing for the kid.”
Added Washington personal injury specialist Jack Olender: “You go for pain and suffering, interference with ability to lead a normal life.
“The really large item is impairment of earning capacity if he doesn’t recover fully. That would put it in the millions of dollars.”
Loose talk
Bob Dole, in a get-well note to Clinton: “Dear Mr. President. Should you need someone to fill in and run the country during your recovery, give me a call.”
Didn’t she have something to do with Watergate?
Amanda Plummer turns 40 today.
Never would he have owed so many so much
We all know what David Brinkley thinks of Clinton, so what presidents did he like? Harry Truman, for one. The veteran newsman recalls playing poker with Truman and Winston Churchill on a train one time, where it soon became apparent that Churchill didn’t know the game very well. “When Churchill excused himself to go to the bathroom, Truman said to the rest of us: ‘This man saved the free world. Lose.’ So the rest of the night, we were folding with flushes and three of a kind.”
From a stiff’s daughter to a Schiff’s wife
Vice President Al Gore’s eldest daughter, 23-year-old Karenna, is engaged to Dr. Andrew Schiff, a 32-year-old primary care physician at New York Hospital. The bride, a Harvard graduate, is an editorial assistant at the Microsoft online magazine Slate. A Washington wedding is planned in November.
Well, like they say, general, politics is hell
In case you were wondering, retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf has no interest in running for office. “Politics in Washington, D.C., has become a really mean business. Really mean and nasty,” he tells George magazine. “It’s very intrusive upon your life, and more important, it’s intrusive on your family’s life. It’s very hard to accomplish anything in such a hostile environment.”
That must’ve been before the boys got married
Buckingham Palace has ordered British sculptor Gordon Brown to scrap his bronze-relief portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and do a new one, this time with her mouth shut. “On all the photographs I was using of our present queen she was smiling,” Brown explained. “So, I started the portrait with her teeth showing.”
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