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 | | Finally, in late June of 1994, Clinton summoned the press to the Oval Office and announced that he was replacing his lifelong friend Thomas F. ``Mack'' McLarty III, a man dubbed Mack the Nice by White House subordinates, with Leon Panetta, a former congressman and the president's budget director. |
 | | Every day, usually in the late afternoon, Clinton is given a block of time in the Oval Office, without interruption, to do whatever he pleases, whether it is to call friends or summon advisers, read, or sit at his desk and try to draw the proverbial big picture. |
 | | Perhaps no president in post-World War II America has been as successful at managing the Oval Office as Ronald Reagan in his first term, when he established an unorthodox triad of top and equal advisers who were allowed unobstructed access. |
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