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Washington Times
EDITORIAL • February 13, 2001
Another Clinton first
Let us pause to mark another Clinton first: Bill Clinton is the
first ex-president whose handsomely-paid presence ever forced
corporate America to issue a sweeping mea culpa — an
institutional "We're not with him" — rather than lose untold
numbers of irate customers.
"I fully understand why you are upset that former President
Clinton spoke at one of our conferences," Morgan Stanley
chairman Philip Purcell wrote, obviously feeling some pain of
his own, in an e-mail zapped last week to some undisclosed
number of his five million customers. "We clearly made a
mistake."
That's one word for the brouhaha Morgan Stanley brought upon
itself for having chosen to be first in line to pony up between
$100,000 and $150,000 for Bill Clinton to address a "high yield"
(a.k.a. junk bond) conference in sunny Boca Raton, Florida.
The company admits to having received hundreds of
complaints over Mr. Clinton's appearance, although Mr.
Purcell's dramatic statement would seem to indicate that the
company fears an even greater impact.
"We should have thought twice before the speaking invitation
was extended," Mr. Purcell's unusual message continued.
"Our failure to do so was particularly unfortunate in light of Mr.
Clinton's actions in leaving the White House." As for Mr.
Clinton's actions before leaving the White House, Mr. Purcell
referred to them, too: "We should have been far more sensitive
to the strong feelings of our clients over Mr. Clinton's personal
behavior as president."
Mr. Purcell explained his company's blunder this way: "The
decision did not receive the proper review within the firm," he
wrote. One wonders what a "proper review" might have
constituted — a databank search to find out whether Mr.
Clinton had ever been impeached? A blue ribbon panel
analysis of the Starr Report? The LaBella Report? Or maybe
the White House Ushers Office tally on missing towels?
In fairness to Mr. Purcell, the crack-up of the Clintons since
clambering down from the pedestal of White House power has
taken everyone by surprise for its speed and violence, both of
which have endowed it with an almost mythological, practically
biblical intensity. Once upon a time, when the presidential seal
was his own, Mr. Clinton's power and his brazen will to
exercise it were a formidable shield that effectively neutralized
his opponents. Now that his claim to that seal is reduced to a
seal-emblazoned card table "mistakenly" removed to the
Clinton home in Chappaqua, and what remains of the shield is
the brazenness, Bill Clinton is left to confront a danger he
hasn't had to encounter for a long time: himself. Or, more
specifically, the consequences of his actions — not in a legal
sense, of course, but in a highly personal one.
The outcry over Mr. Clinton, whether for his presidency or his
post-presidency, has reached a historic crescendo with his
first speaking engagement. (Interestingly enough, the
hullabaloo didn't take into account Mr. Clinton's insult-to-injury
golf outing the following day, noted by the New York Post's
Page Six, at the Indian Creek Country Club, a club which Talk
magazine will report next month follows racially and religiously
"restricted" membership policies.) The uproar calls into
question whether Mr. Clinton will have as financially rewarding
a post-presidential speaking career as he has so obviously
planned. More important, though, it reveals once and for all that
reputations that rest on spin and poll numbers have the shelf
life of alfalfa sprouts. Without constant care and replenishment,
they quickly become damaged goods.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/
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