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It is interesting to see how warm he grew toward Alexander Hamilton (he signed his letters "I am Your Affectionate"), and how awkward and self-conscious toward Jefferson, whose allies were berating Washington "in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero; a notorious defaulter; or even to a common pick-pocket."
The Republican National Committee is obsessed with the topic, berating the Clinton administration weekly for failing to deploy a shield.
He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington.
The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lead with President Clinton's berating, at a conference in Istanbul, of Russian President Boris Yeltsin over the Russian military's assault on Chechnya--a story fronted (below the fold) by the Washington Post . USA Today leads with the U.S.