■ President Clinton claims John F. Kennedy Jr. “actually had not been back to the White House since his father was killed, until I became president.” JFK Jr. visited both the Nixon and Reagan White Houses. . . . Clinton picks New York architectural firms to design presidential library in Little Rock. . .. National Journal asks Sen. Bob Kerrey (D., Neb.) about famous line calling Clinton “an unusually good liar.” Responds Kerrey: “What I said was entirely deserved— make no mistake.”. . .Vice President Gore says $792 billion GOP tax cut “endangers our prosperity itself,” but breaks with Clinton by backing marriage-penalty relief. . . . Bill Bradley on Meet the Press: “I think that there are more important things that we need in the country now than this size of tax cut.” Bradley on same program, eight years ago: “I think the first thing the government ought to do is put more money in your pocket.” . . . More Bradley, in basketball memoir Life on the Run: “What normally would be out of the question for me becomes acceptable in the self-contained world of Mt. Marriott or Holiday Valley. Normal shyness would prevent me from entering a stranger’s hotel room, but on the road there seems to be nothing to lose. . . . The percentages are that if a man spends enough nights in hotels he will meet a woman with whom for that night he will share a bed, giving each a brief escape from boredom and loneliness.” . . . Gore chief of staff Ron Klain resigns to join law firm.
■ In Polling Company survey, 55 percent of Iowa Republicans say they “don’t know where George W. Bush stands on issues that are important to me.” . . . Bradley moves ahead of Bush in New York state poll, while Gore remains in dead heat with Texas governor. . . . Dan Quayle: “The Clinton-Gore White House started out as Woodstock ’69. Big hopes, great expectations, promises of harmony and understanding. It is ending as Woodstock ’99—a trashing of ideals, a trashing of standards, a trashing of institutions that are not theirs to trash.” . . . Bush, Quayle campaigns rent Forbes magazine subscriber list for fundraising purposes.
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