"We had to call every official on Long Island to invite them here today," another aide recalled.

Mr. Clinton noticed that some supermarkets were still open, and asked why, his aides recalled.

"The Army had gone through the same drill two years earlier, and regularized it," the aide recalled.

"First of all, he believed," a former aide recalled.

"When Haig was talking about the hit team," the aide recalled, "we were ready to bomb."

"The Navy people were at ease, confident," the aide recalls.

"She kept calling from the plane to find out what was going on," one aide recalled.

"Larry has two qualities that Powell appreciated," recalls another top aide to the former secretary.

"All of a sudden," one former aide recalled, "he became a player."

"The lawsuit is part of his dark side," recalled one former aide.