Backstage At The Finale
Animated one minute, melancholy the next, Clinton was beginning to give in to exhaustion. In his last weeks as president, he had largely shunned sleep, working day and night in a frenetic effort to use his power up to the very last minute. All presidents wind up rushing to the finish line, but Clinton, in typical fashion, took it to the extreme. White House aides say Clinton felt a special urgency to leave a lasting body of work that the incoming Republicans couldn’t easily erase....