European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews the Agenda inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward Simon amp schuster. After the announcement of Woodward a latest Book anticipation of High level gossip was excited by reports that it revealed the Power wielded by Hillary Rodham Clinton and the influence exerted on presidential policy by Alan Greenspan the presumably apolitical chairman of the Federal Reserve system. So it comes As somewhat of a Surprise that while the Agenda is built of a sourced inside scenes that resemble in Pace and Point of View the shocking narrative of president Nixon a resignation the final Days the tone and attitude of the new Book Are not Only far from sensational but also Neutral almost to the Point of ambiguity. True mrs. Clinton does put in regular appearances to Tell her husband and his advisers in caustic words to shape up and Stop dithering. And True Greenspan delivers messages to the president for vently approving anything that might Cut the deficit and lower Long term interest rates. Moreover the president keeps having tantrums so often and so violently that you come think of them As his Way of keeping himself going. Woodward reports an incident in which White. House chief of staff Thomas f. Mclarty makes a Promise to rep. Dave Mccurdy in Exchange for the congressman s support of the presidents economic plan and then seems to forget his obligation. There Are several other scenes of Back corridor treachery. And in one confrontation vice president Al Gore tells off the president in tones that witnesses Felt breached protocol. But Are we supposed to be shocked by such reports Haven to these incidents always occurred behind the scenes As White House staffs have tried to define presidential policy and put it into effect is it remarkable that a president would Start out with a visionary Agenda Only to see it whittled Down by Compromise from a mighty Oak to a toothpick As president Clinton seems to have done in promising an economic plan that would tax Energy consumption stimulate the Economy invest in development and Cut spending and in the end settling for merely lowering the deficit without ambiguity the main Point of the Agenda is that in the first year of his administration president Clinton fell absurdly Short of the Promise he made when in accepting the democratic presiden tial nomination on july 16, 1932, he said a George Bush if you wont use your Power to help people step aside i  the next april the president was telling his staff who bitter sarcasm a a we re Eisenhower republicans Here and we Are fighting the Reagan republicans. We stand for lower deficits and free Trade and the Bond Market. Isnit that great a a Chris Lehmann Haupt . Times Victory the Reagan administrations secret strategy that hastened the collapse of the soviet Union by Peter Schweizer Grove Atlantic. For this Book Schweizer has received unique Access to some top Reagan administration foreign policy officials Caspar Weinberger George Shultz Bill Clark Robert Mcfarlane John Poindexter Richard Allen plus High level Central intelligence Agency operatives Alan Fiers Herb Meyer Vincent Cannistraro Dewey Clarridge and a few other former High level Power wielders. Most of these Guys Don t open up easily for interviews. Considering that the 1980s saw the most dramatic shift in International politics of our lifetime maybe of any decade in history Schweizer had a unique Opportunity to produce a journalistic and historical landmark. Sadly this Book is neither journalism nor history. 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