[dennisw]

Bill Safire wrote an immortal column where he called Bill Clinton a tummler. It shows up nowhere on the internet. A lexis/nexus search would find it

[Mia T]

The NYT search engine spits out the following excerpts for keywords 'safire' and 'tummler.' (PINCHed bucks required for the works in their entirety.) Either ring a bell?

1. Essay; Forward Together, Again
   
   September 6, 1993, Monday
   
   By WILLIAM SAFIRE (NYT); Editorial Desk
   
   Late Edition - Final, Section 1, Page 15, Column 1, 724 words
   
   
   
   DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 724 WORDS -In his story of "The Purloined Letter," Edgar Allan Poe showed that the best place to hide anything from avid searchers is to leave it in plain view. In the same way, President Clinton conceals his strategy from probing pundits by laying it out for all to hear on...
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Essay; 'Focus' Hocus-Pocus
   May 17, 1993, Monday
   
   By WILLIAM SAFIRE (NYT); Editorial Desk
   
   Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 17, Column 6, 711 words
   
   
   
   DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 711 WORDS -In the White House, when your rat ings start to slip especially when your "negatives" are abnormally high -- you put forward two reasons. The first is that you are "failing to communicate." This admits no misdirection or wrongdoing -- merely that your press operation has flopped, or that...