Well, I don't—you know, they won fair and square. But, no, you—I don't feel any—any vindictiveness in my heart towards President Clinton or to Vice President Gore, none. Absolutely none. They hammered the hell out of me in their war room and in their Stephanopouli, and all of this kind of stuff.

Clinton, who rose with the help of mentors, has an ingratiating air with his elders. But along with servants jittery over dismissals, Clinton's young aides have the nervous manner of children who expect their father to blow up at any moment. It is disconcerting when the President dresses down his rosy-cheeked aides in public, and when he sends the Stephanopouli out to defend his messy past, about which they know little.