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The NYT calls Clinton's grand jury appearance "the most politically and legally perilous moment of his presidency," and says he has been conducting practice sessions in which his lawyers are questioning him and designing answers that allow him to acknowledge a relationship with Lewinsky without going into graphic detail.
The three standard lines of analysis were: 1) The first lady would try to tug her husband back to the perilous left; 2) The president and his aides don't want her to take a public role, because she'll become a lightning rod; and 3) Republicans are secretly rooting for her to take a public role, for both the above reasons.
What mysteriously disappeared, from one book to the next, is a sense of the perilous.
Eleanor (like all do-gooders motivated by the perilous business of noblesse oblige) might have had her authoritarian leanings, but the point is that FDR wasn't a dictator, and neither was Eleanor, who--whatever she may have mused aloud at the start of the New Deal--never got half the loaf she wanted.
But, facing increasing military pressure, they set forth on the epic Long March to northwest China, a distance of some 10,000 perilous kilometers (over 6,200 miles).