I had a couple or three weeks there before things really kind of broke loose on the [Monica] Lewinsky stuff. At the end of the day, he always made the decision on his own. I just think, in this job you're with him all the time. We tried to find it for the briefing materials, but we couldn't find it. Well, any win would have been a surprising win, but under the circumstances, to have won—. Well, it turns out that choosing Must is scary, hard, and a lot like jumping off a terrifyingly high cliff where you can't see anything down below. HIGH PROFILE: Christina Marie Shutt tries to infuse history with voices from another perspective. Which he did routinely, but it took on a little different significance. We had people injured because of that, because of big crowds, especially during the campaign. I took the press office job in January of '96. The answer for End of a pep talk, maybe Crossword Clue is GETEM. It was great for us with fresh minds, open minds, to come in and just—as I got to know these people I found that I could be a good representative of the White House by helping them, and making their jobs easier, and helping them get access to different things—and partially creature comforts, which was my job—without endangering any of our secrets. They're running, move up! I never looked back and said, I just let my head catch up a little bit.
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I think a lot of it had to do with politics. When a guy from the local newspaper sees a filing center, he wants to go sit by the guy from the Washington Post, and that's okay; they're all journalists. And Clinton is a huge basketball fan. He says the Mosaic exhibits show attention to detail that has been Shutt's hallmark for years. What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban. I'd just say, If it can wait, it would be better to come cause I know a lot of their personal stuff and that's not necessarily something other people know. I don't know how many days he spent on vacation, but not a lot, especially toward the end. We had a TV just outside in our office, where Betty [Currie] and I and Nancy sat, that we could watch CNN, a local station, a national station, and we could keep up with what was happening. Regardless of what stupid thing he did, he still runs the country, and you've still got to go on doing that stuff, and there are a lot of people relying on you to do it. I have to say that Bruce was probably one of the few people who had the intellect to keep up, and then also had the experience and history. At least the way I approached it was, the ones you could never win over were the ones you treated the best, because—and I think we were pretty equitable to everybody. My grandfather was very interested in politics—I mean, he was a true political animal.
He is a consummate teacher. I guess he was a literary person. Because when it was too cold to jihad, that IED still got planted. In how the reporting and stuff went? He'd carry it with him all day long. End of a pep talk maybe crosswords. You're just sucking in these diesel fumes—with all the press bags, and you think, What am I doing out here? I took that job in December of '97. He'd get into a project and it was very difficult to get him out of the project into the next one, especially when you have a schedule like that and you're on a very fine timeline. Together, they were establishing plans to build a well nearby. Later we learned things like, when you fly—Clinton wanted to leave at seven o'clock at night to go to Europe so we could start the next day right off the plane. I still didn't have a business card; I had nothing.
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He didn't like to do business—. Obviously, when you do that in New York or L. or San Francisco, you back up traffic for hours. In the midst of chaos, in the midst of oppression, people still found joy.