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Like Rockefeller 100 years ago, Gates came to the national attention with a pugnacious, imperial style that irritated government lawyers who needed no provocation to do what they were hired to do.
When, in 1835, a would-be assassin pointed his pistol at Andrew Jackson, the pugnacious president simply charged at the assailant, brandishing his cane.
Each region sustains a solid and pugnacious local pride from historic division into the city-states, duchies, kingdoms, and republics of Florence, Naples, Venice, Lombardy, Piedmont, and Sicily.
But after about an hour of anodyne sentiments, Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton political adviser more pugnacious than the others, couldn't take it any more.
The WP coverage of the presidential press conference--accompanied by a picture of a pugnacious double-fisted Clinton--reports that he dismissed allegations about his character as the work of organized foes "unable to counter his ideas or record," but acknowledged that seven years of their attacks have diminished his personal standing with the American people.