Stormy Weather

The President tries to survive the tempest, but his party support is fraying as candidates worry about his coattails

As storms, real and metaphysical, buffeted the South, brewed turmoil in Moscow and depressed world financial markets, the clouds of another tempest hung about the borrowed clapboard cottage, where President Clinton and his family were winding up their decidedly unrelaxing vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. The official word from the White House was that a "healing process" was under way. And indeed, the President was doing his best to make amends, not only with the woman who is making good on her promise to stick with him for better or worse, but also with the political party that has always been...

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