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Clinton's Resilience Became Sort Of The Secret Weapon Of The Campaign. He Was Never Going To Just Give Up And Get Out.

'not Again!' I Thought To Myself This Morning, As News Trickled Out That John Mccain Was Set To Pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin As His Running Mate. Not Again, Because Too Often Women Are Promoted For The Wrong Reasons, And Then Blamed When Things Don't Go Right.

You As The Press Secretary Have To Protect The President's Interests And The White House's Interests More Broadly. And A Lot Of People Inside The White House, As You Learned, Sometimes With Painful Experience, Have Competing Agendas, Have Differing Points Of View, Have Priorities They're Trying To Protect.

And Clinton Was Like That - He Saw The Whole Playing Field. He Didn't Just See The Event That He Was At Or The Circumstances Of That Week Or That Month. He Saw The Whole Playing Field All The Time.

This Is A Generation Weaned On Watergate, And There Is No Presumption Of Innocence And No Presumption Of Good Intentions. Instead, There Is A Presumption That, Without Relentless Scrutiny, The Government Will Misbehave.