Clinton

On November 22, 2006 CLINTON PAINE PITTS; beloved husband of the late Mary Claire Conley Pitts; devoted father of Clinton P. Pitts, Jr., Lloyd P. DeFord, Henry C. Pitts and Jeffrey L. Pitts. Also survived by six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church Monkton on Friday, December 1 at 3:30 p.m. Interment private. In lieu of flowers contributions may be sent to The American Heart Association, Inc., 415 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 or to The Masters of The Fox Hound Association Educational Foundation.

In his first visit to Maryland as the Democratic presidential nominee, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton plans a bit of softball tonight followed tomorrow morning by what his campaign calls a major speech on the economy and education.Mr. Clinton will play ball beginning about 8:20 p.m. at Randazzo Park, formerly known as Upton Park, on Upton Road in Severn. The candidate will join either the Hubbusters, a group of air traffic controllers who work for USAir, or their opponents, the Stingers, a team of Pasadena-area players.

WASHINGTON -- After winning election on the promise of economic change, President Clinton is pushing his ideas through Congress with a combination of goodwill, smooth salesmanshipand strong-arm tactics that has left even his detractors shaking their heads in grudging admiration.Despite solid Republican opposition and grumbling among conservative Democrats, Mr. Clinton won House passage last night of his blueprint for cutting the deficit and his spending package to revive the economy.Lawmakers said Mr. Clinton steamrollered his opponents by winning over the American public, personally lobbying members Congress and relying on the power of House leaders to control their troops.

Washington -- Until now, the betting line on Bill Clinton was warily upbeat. Would he weather a sex scandal? Almost uniformly, Democratic insiders were saying, "He'll survive unless another shoe drops."That sound you heard was the other shoe dropping.A big one.Just when Clinton seemed to be staggering out from under Gennifer Flowers' kiss-and-tell tabloid tale, he's rattled by charges that he manipulated his way out of Vietnam War duty.The second blow in this one-two punch could be a TKO.Contemporary voters may shrug off a lurid, told-for-pay account of sexual infidelity.

An excerpt from an Orange County (Calif.) Register editorial that was published on Wednesday:BILL and Hillary Clinton came to Washington with two related messages that would eventually come back to bite them. First, they were ostentatiously disdainful of the era of Ronald Reagan as a decade of indulgence. Second, they boasted that the Clinton era would be one of moral renewal in public life -- implicitly suggesting that the GOP regime they were displacing had been ethically challenged. In contrast, Mr. Clinton vowed, his would be the ''most ethical'' administration in history.

WASHINGTON -- Skeptics may be forgiven if they wonder about President Clinton's motives in his current tour of some of the nation's most poverty-stricken communities.If he is concerned about his legacy -- and those who know him say he is -- then it cannot hurt to be seen showing concern for the deprived in Appalachia, Watts or the Mississippi Delta.But, whatever the reason, the president is using the bully pulpit of the White House to perform a worthwhile service for Americans by calling their attention to the fact that not everyone is sharing in the extraordinary economic boom.

SOME PEOPLE are looking for a way to punish President Clinton that's tougher than censure but not as tough as impeachment.On ABC's "This Week," former Clintonite George Stephanopoulos proposed a fine -- Mr. Clinton should reimburse the government for the cost of the Monica Lewinsky portion of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation (the part for which his dissembling was responsible).Is this suggestion serious?Mr. Stephanopoulos certainly meant to be serious and subsequent newspaper articles treated his proposal respectfully.

Win or lose the nomination, Sen. Robert Kerrey of Nebraska and Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas set a Democratic theme this week for the 1992 effort to oust George Bush from the White House."

Pennsylvania effectively closed out the traditional party primary season by putting President Bush over the top to clinch the Republican nomination and giving Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's Democratic campaign an aura of inevitability. There are still more tests to go, but they will be pro forma.Front-runners Bush and Clinton will therefore try to concentrate on one another as though this is still a two-man race. It isn't. H. Ross Perot, the blunt-talking Texas billionaire who proposes to finance his own independent bid for the presidency is gaining ground with every new opinion poll.

Here is an excerpt of an editorial from the Irish Times, Dublin, that was published Thursday.WHAT to do after a spell in the White House?President Clinton, at only 54, will be way ahead of retirement age when his term ends in 2001. He had hinted that he and Hillary Clinton might find suitable postings in academia, but that was before independent counsel Kenneth Starr put him through the wringer.Now, he will need to make serious money to pay his legal debts so his options are more limited.