Progressive writer David Sirota imagines a short celebration followed by a fierce fight for the soul of the party between populists like this one and Bill Clinton-style internationalists.
Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide -- restored to power by Bill Clinton -- behaves like a mafia don in his destitute nation, where critics of the government are murdered with impunity.
The empowered American left--in sharp contrast to the tradition that runs from Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman all the way to Bill Clinton--often envisions the U.S. as a country headed into the dustbin of history, and deservedly so.
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McCollum -- one of the House impeachment managers who prosecuted the Senate trial of President Bill Clinton -- is giving up his central Florida congressional seat, which he has held for nearly 20 years, to run for Senate.
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W. Bush, Bill Clinton -- the last time we had a balanced budget -- all of them understood that you have to take a balanced approach to solving our deficit and debt problems, the same way a family would.
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Between Hoover and Obama, the worst a president had ever done in the four years between first and second nomination was to preside over 6.6% total ex-federal growth, a distinction belonging to George W. Bush as he stalled out the Bill Clinton-Newt Gingrich boom.
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Part of the trouble is that on the bodily-fluid score and on the lesson-to-be-learned score, they face unbeatable competition from the real-life folly of the moment: the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair, which almost everyone agrees is both none of their business and compulsory viewing.
Indeed, except for a few tv loudmouths and self-help salesmen, there's nobody on the list whose day job is to interpret real events. (We dropped a category for public speakers this year--that's why you don't see Bill Clinton--because it's such a static roster.) No matter: Click here to enjoy the names and faces as useful data points of a personality-obsessed era.
This past October Bill Clinton -- on a visit to London promoting his recent book "Giving" -- sat down with BBC Radio host John Humphreys for an interview and, after disposing of book chat in a few minutes, breezily proceeded to harshly criticize President Bush and recent American policy in Iraq, as well as our positions on Kyoto, the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and the International Criminal Court.
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" And when she was asked about abortion, she responded with a classic poll-tested Bill Clinton formulation -- it is a difficult personal choice that should be made between "a woman, her family, her doctor and her God.
The district is generally competitive, though it gave Bill Clinton double-digit margins in both 1992 and 1996.
The opposition's hand was further strengthened by the tightness of a deadline imposed on the government: it had to have a realistic rescue plan in place so Mr Obuchi would not have to face Bill Clinton empty-handed at their meeting in New York on September 22nd.
Together with other senior Clinton administration figures -- such as Strobe Talbott, John Shattuck, Sam Brown and of course Bill Clinton, himself -- who were prominent fixtures in the anti-war movement, those who have "learned nothing and forgotten nothing" from the Vietnam war are set to repeat the earlier mistake.
Although it is no longer true that a candidate must win New Hampshire to become president -- Bill Clinton broke that jinx in 1992 -- a poor showing here still appears almost certain to snuff out the chances of a presidential candidate.
To her, Hillary was the "brilliant and dazzling" embodiment of the women's movement and all its promise, and she tried mightily to persuade her not to surrender a limitless future in Washington for a man-even Bill Clinton, whom she knew-and become an assistant professor at a "hillbilly" law school.
Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign made much of the fact that Osama Bin Laden - named as the US's "public enemy number one" by Bill Clinton in 1998 - had been killed under his leadership.
Better yet, Air Force One is to land there in mid-December, bringing President Bill Clinton on a quasi-state visit.
Such was the case in 1992, when the fresh-faced Bill Clinton nominated two separate attorney generals -- Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood -- both of whom had to withdraw themselves from the nomination process over revelations they had previously employed illegal immigrants.
Obviously coming out of the convention we got a little bit of momentum, mainly attributable to the First Lady, Michelle Obama -- (applause) -- as well as Bill Clinton who, somebody said -- (applause) -- somebody tweeted right after he made the speech, he should be made secretary of explaining stuff. (Laughter.) So we got a little bit of momentum.
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New Jersey is a competitive state that was carried by Bill Clinton and now-senator Bob Torricelli (D) last November.
After the Republicans won control of the Congress in 1994, then president Bill Clinton was hard-pressed to advance his domestic agenda.
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In the mid-1990s, Bill Clinton resuscitated and negotiated a side-deal designed to fix, or at least obscure, what Mr. Reagan found objectionable.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Soviet-era President Mikhail Gorbachev and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair are all expected to attend, he added.
In Washington, the merits of sending Bill Clinton or Kerry -- the only two envoys officially invited by the North Koreans -- were being debated.
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The grid is vulnerable because it is controlled via the World Wide Web, said Woolsey, who directed the Central Intelligence Agency under President Bill Clinton from 1993-95.
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In 1993 she was chosen by Bill Clinton to co-chair the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and a year later she established the Florence Griffith-Joyner Foundation to help underprivileged children.
What happened last year is actually pretty simple: Under intense pressure from Bill Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Mr. Arafat a deal more generous and, for Israel, more risky than anyone expected any Israeli leader ever to propose.
In one marathon reception in December 1996, Bill Clinton and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton welcomed about 1, 200 guests over three hours, with a 90-minute break upstairs in the middle, according to an archive of White House schedules kept by the William J Clinton Presidential Library.
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