Ten years after
March 6, 2006
This week back in March 1996, I spent a few sleepless days working on a webcast of the IBM-sponsored National Education Summit (alongside Ed and Vicky), a two-day conflagration of the fifty governors, assorted CEOs, and their various handlers and hangers-on. President Clinton helicoptered in to give the keynote speech; and somehow I ended up in the handshake line. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, this was right in the midst of l'affaire Lewinsky.
The man knew how to work a reception line; making small talk, cracking jokes, and somehow managing to put everyone at ease in a potentially nerve-jangling encounter. I can't remember a word he said, but I remember the moment vividly; he is the most magnetic person I have ever met.
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