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Bush Sending Clinton to East Timor Inauguration (THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 8, 2002)

President Bush has chosen former President Bill Clinton to lead a United States delegation to East Timor's independence celebrations later this month, a senior administration official said today.

A former Clinton official said Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, offered Mr. Clinton the task in March. He immediately accepted. The United States delegation will also include Richard C. Holbrooke, former envoy to the United Nations, and James Kelly, assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific.

Pretty magnanimous on Bush's part, but can you really fit Clinton's ego and Holbrooke's on the same plane?

Also, the story calls to mind Bob Dole's greatest line; when former presidents Carter, Ford, and Nixon went to Anwar Sadat's funeral together, Dole referred to them as "See No Evil", "Speak No Evil", and "Evil".

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 8, 2002 11:15 AM