With A Little Help From His Friends

Prime Minister Tony Blair provided welcome diversion in a tough week

It was the biggest White House dinner of the Clinton Administration, and it may have been the most fun. Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder sang and played, movie stars and producers glittered and laughed, and everyone danced. The guests of honor, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, stayed until midnight, and the Clintons didn't go upstairs for another hour after that. While the name Monica Lewinsky must have been whispered at some of the tables, the gaiety was so general that Clinton might have been able to forget it for a while.

Blair did his best to...

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