better functioning policy apparatus, if you will. i think they might have a more successful 2011 in terms of policy development. you say the president s relationship with the clintons specifically, bill clinton, is still strained. why is that? got a little better toward the end of the year where bill clinton, you know, helped out on that tax bill, but took over the podium. there were many months in 2010 and late 2009, where there were real tensions there. interestingly there, bill clinton got along better with h.w. bush that he ran against. one described h.w. bush as a, quote, father figure to bill clinton, which i found absolutely fascinating. whereas particularly at the staff level there was and i think continues to be some tension between the clinton camp, the bill clinton camp and the white house even throw are a