-Caveat Lector-
[This is the second article I've read this week alluding to
Clinton as Elvis ... "the Clintons will lurk only blocks away,
plotting to reclaim the White House from the Bushes"]
December 20, 2000
LIBERTIES
He's Gone! He's Back!
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON � It is always a poignant moment: the image of the new
ex-president climbing up the stairs of the Marine helicopter on
the White House lawn, turning back for that final wave to
Washington and the nation. Then the outgoing chief executive
flies to Andrews Air Force Base for his last ride home on Air
Force One, which is redesignated "Special Air Mission," since the
president is not on board.
Nixon summoning a smile through his tears, throwing his arms into
a V. Reagan exchanging a brisk salute with President Bush.
Bill Clinton has not yet told aides where he wants Air Force
Not-One to take him after the inauguration.
Being the glorious ham he is, Elvis won't want to miss the drama
of the final goodbye. But then he may have to slip out the back
door of the plane, hail a cab and double back to town.
Bill Is Not Going Away. Ever.
The man who was president and the woman who wants to be president
are shopping for a lavish house in Washington's fanciest
neighborhoods. Once more breaking rules, the Clintons will form a
rival power base to the new president. (Not to mention a rival
power base to poor Al Gore, who will have to slink across the
river, back to Tipper's parents' modest home in Arlington, Va.)
Just as the Bushes bided their time in Texas, plotting to reclaim
the White House from the Clintons, now the Clintons will lurk
only blocks away, plotting to reclaim the White House from the
Bushes.
Even as President Clinton warmly received his successor yesterday
at the White House, he was coolly preparing to surround W., and
steal attention from him, in an ingenious bit of territorial
triangulation.
With the Democrats hailing Mr. Clinton � and not Mr. Gore � as
the man they want to lead them into the future, the departing
president has installed his best friend and wallet, Terry
McAuliffe, as head of the Democratic National Committee in
Southeast Washington. Hillary will be in the Senate, up the
street in Northeast. And Mr. Clinton, who told Dan Rather he
would work for the next six months out of his transition office
here, will be living in Northwest.
The Clinton iron triangle, pinioning W. in the middle, will
create an unprecedented second center of gravity, during a time
when new presidents are traditionally free to begin in peace.
"You're supposed to get out of town; it's just not classy to
stay," said one local luminary.
Now we'll have a government and a shadow government, a real
president and a squatter president. (Although, since Al Gore
picked up 130 more votes in an inspection of discarded ballots in
Lake County, Fla., on Monday, some people may see both Mr. Bush
and Mr. Clinton as pretenders. W. will be pretending he was
elected president, and Bill will be pretending that W. wasn't.)
The Clintons have always been estranged from the Washington
grandees, so people here simply assumed that Bill and Hillary
would rent a modest apartment near Capitol Hill and spend most of
their time in New York, at what one Democrat dryly calls "their
Potemkin house."
But when Mrs. Clinton looked at a $4 million mansion in
Georgetown that had once been owned by Jackie Kennedy's mother, a
house where Jackie's wedding dress and bloodied pink suit from
Dallas had once been stored in the attic, Washingtonians began to
realize that the Clintons had far grander, gaudier designs �
evoking the Kennedy dynasty.
Even if Senator Clinton forsakes that house as too Marie
Antoinette for a populist, she set a tone of overreaching.
Hillary will most likely give issues soir�es for Mr. McAuliffe
and the money people who will fuel her ambitions. Bill is keeping
all his options open, so he looms like Sensurround: mayor of New
York, Middle East peace negotiator, star of "The Bill Clinton
Show" on TV, impresario of Hillary's political rise in Washington
and of his own library in Little Rock.
How can W., already looking tentative and facing economic and
energy woes, compete with that?
Bill Clinton first came into our consciousness at the Democratic
convention in '88, making a keynote address for Michael Dukakis
that went on so long that when he finally said "in conclusion,"
the audience cheered.
The guy never could get off the stage.
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