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...Republicans in the Senate successfully filibustered the bill and the president lost Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly except Christmas/New Year's...
...Temptations: Paul Elie 24 When Bill Clinton was voted out of office after his first term as governor of Arkansas, Arcadia: Edward T. Wheeler 26 he regrouped, reclaimed the governor's mansion two years later, and successfully The Subversive Family: Paul Baumann 28 ran the state of Arkansas for the next ten years...
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...It is true that the electorate as a whole was `Good riddance!' said Grandma: William Houghton less than enthusiastic about electing Bill Clinton (he gained only 43 percent of the 22 popular vote), but his supporters and others hoped that his intelligence, political acuScreen: Richard Alleva 23 men, and youthful energy-coupled with a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate-would set a different tone and inaugurate a new national course...
...The deficit would be cut by $325 billion Screen: Richard Alleva over four years, and if others could come up with greater savings, the administraStage: Gerald Weales tion would be willing to consider them: "We need you to hold our feet to the fire," Poetry: Rosemary Deen Clinton told an audience in Saint Louis the following day...
...Clinton may Pamela Quatse have called for sacrifice, but even with his proposal, the deficit is still slated to be $212 Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor billion four years from now, and then to increase, as David Broder notes (Washington Publisher: Edward S. Skillin Post National Weekly, May 3-9...
...Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels In his State of the Union address this past February, President Clinton's concrete Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan proposals for trimming the deficit were heard by a country unusually open and ready Associate Editor: Paul Baumann to accept sacrifice-as long as it was equitably shared by all-as a means of putting Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell its economic house in order...
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...A remarkable window of opportunity seemed to coinSenior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt cide with the arrival of a president willing to address the country frankly and to chalBusiness Manager: Richard Haas Design: Emil Antonucci lenge the Congress to end years of gridlock...
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...Either he regroups now or he will pay the price-as most assuredly will the STAFF country that turned to him to renew its vision and reverse its fortunes...
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...9 An incoherent culture: John Garvey 10 `Humane vitae': What has it done to us?: That sinking feeling Kenneth Untener 12 Poetry: James Thielman 14 s the past twelve years made clear, we have one president and Take your shoes off my books: our fortunes are tied to him...
...No raising taxes unless Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, we cut spending...
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...Then, briefly, the president seemed to regain some of his momentum...
...His address at the Vietnam War Memorial on Memorial Day was brief, courageous, and healCommonweal 18 June 1993: 3...
...Then there were the president's self-inflicted wounds: and monthly July and August, by Commonweal White House confusions, presidential backtrackings, and an onslaught of negative, piFoundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
...Last Into the city of faithfulness: November, ousting a sitting president, the country voted conDaria Donnelly 18 vincingly for change...
...He will not have that luxury as president...
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...The job-stimulus package the president proposed as a needed jolt to the economy was painted as a pork-barrel pay-back to Democratic mayCommonweal, [ISSN 0010-33301 A Review of ors...
...Staff: Harriette Balsky, Carmen Alava, Those were heady days, followed too soon by a season of disillusion...
...POSTMASTER: Send address changes to do some soul-searching and make some public declarations of failure himself...
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...Twelve years of Reagan-Bush proved Jo McGowan 15 enough of borrow-and-spend for a majority of Americans...
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