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Not only did he attack Helms July 15, but he deliberately embarrassed the White House--which had refrained from quarreling with Helms--by calling on Clinton to speak up for his confirmation.
But, savvy alpha male that he is, he refrained from getting into a gutter brawl with a scrawny, marginal primate such as myself.
As Leonard Cole, author of The Eleventh Plague , has observed, Saddam Hussein refrained from using his vast chemical stockpile during the Persian Gulf War not because he feared retaliation in kind , but because he feared retaliation of comparable, or greater, magnitude . (Gen.
Indeed, as recently as November, I refrained from this course only at the eleventh hour.
Once things got hot, however, "[h]e and Monica would unclench--and she would perform a private strip show for the president," making sure "the two refrained from touching each other."