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A President for Our Time? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--CLINTON AND THE CONGRESS |
| Author: Lee Edwards |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,017 Words, 13,359 Characters |
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A lame-duck but serene Bill Clinton is confident history will judge him fairly and well.
Despite the legal and ethical questions about his campaign fund-raising actions, despite Whitewater and Paula Jones, despite the indictments and convictions of close friends and cabinet officers, President Bill Clinton's public approval ratings remain close to 60 percent. At the same time, surveys show that a majority of the public does not think that the president is honest and trustworthy.
One Washington columnist commented that America has achieved the "normalization" of Nixonian ethics—most Americans apparently think their president is crooked and ethically fit to be president.
Is he right? Is a president's character no longer important to the American people? Is Bill Clinton the perfect p...
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...fed. In his second term, he is trying to accomplish piecemeal—as with his Patient's Bill of Rights—what he could not do all at once four years ago.
He is confident that history will recognize him as a New Democrat who led his party to new political heights, rather than an interim president whose greatest achievement was to fulfill the conservative initiatives of his Republican predecessors.
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