HIS PERKS AND POWER GONE, CLINTON FACES STORM ALONE
by Adam Nagourney
"He has lost much of his White House staff, the counsel of many of the people who have guided him through eight years of intermittent crisis. . . . There had been discussion as well among Mr. Clinton's advisers to set up a central operation to respond to attacks on Mr. Clinton, or a war room, but that idea has been discarded. 'Can I kill one thing?' said Karen Tramontona, Mr. Clinton's chief of staff. 'There are not daily conference calls, there's no war room.'"
-- New York Times, March 1