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- <text id=93TT2511>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Power Bonding
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- NATION
- Power Bonding
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Clinton and his Cabinet get in touch with their feelings at
- Camp David
- </p>
- <p> It was a boomer kind of thing. When President Clinton
- recently invited his Cabinet to Camp David for the weekend, he
- also called in two "facilitators" to conduct encounter-style
- discussions about how to share, trust one another and learn.
- Everyone wore a name tag (first and last names). Clinton got the
- ball rolling by recalling how tough it was to be a fat kid. As
- part of the exercise, participants were asked, What do you know
- now that you are afraid you won't know at the end of four years
- in the White House? Answered one: The names of my kid's
- teachers. Said another: The cost of a quart of milk. How
- successful was the effort at high-level bonding? Well, friendly
- feelings can help. But trust is at best fragile in a town where
- every player tries to put a spin on events. During a separate
- session, Cabinet members got a tongue-lashing on keeping one's
- lip zipped around nosy reporters. Result: Details of the
- discussions were all over town as soon as they got back.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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