"He was a bit sentimental about leaving office," recalled an adviser, Jiri Pehe.

Wilson's academic adviser, Shelly Alkin, recalls him phoning from a hotel room in Florida.

One adviser recalls the Clintons practicing the line.

At once Edgar's advisers recalled Dunstan.

"He wasn't his feisty self on this one," one close adviser recalled.

The former adviser to President Clinton recalls his years in the White House.

An adviser to four presidents recalls his years in the White House.

"He would say, 'This is how Cheney approached the issue in 1995,' " the adviser recalled.

Otherwise, the Bolivian president's advisers recalled him as saying, "I may be back here in a year, this time seeking political asylum."

He ran for mayor in 1976 and won in a landslide, in part, his adviser recalled, because of his affiliation with the Knicks.