On the Scene

Washington, D.C.

ON SEPTEMBER 21, the President walked into an auditorium in the Executive Office Building to find a roomful of irate radio talk-show hosts. They had been invited to Washington for briefings on the Clinton health-care plan and were not having a good time. It had taken some of them forever to get past the front gate. Part of the problem was that security checks had turned up some felony convictions. A tough crowd, it seems, in more ways than one. But the Clinton White House was leaving out no one in its push to sell the health plan, even before its formal unveiling.

Washington, D.C.

ON SEPTEMBER 21, the President walked into an auditorium in the Executive Office Building to find a roomful of irate radio talk-show hosts. They had been invited to Washington for briefings on the Clinton health-care plan and were not having a good time. It had taken some of them forever to get past the front gate. Part of the problem was that security checks had turned up some felony convictions. A tough crowd, it seems, in more ways than one. But the Clinton White House was leaving out no one in its push to sell the health plan, even before its formal unveiling.