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One can make a plausible, if narrow, case that Bill Clinton was one of the most accomplished American politicians of the twentieth century. Unlike fully half of them, Clinton did not inherit the Presidency, either directly, as did T. Unlike T. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Carter, and Bush, Clinton had no family money and no family connections. Unlike Wilson, Hoover, Eisenhower, and Reagan, he did not achieve national fame in some other field before turning to politics. He got the job by beating an incumbent and then went on to win a second term, a distinction he shares only with Wilson, F. The well-being of the nation palpably improved during his White House service: unprecedented budget deficits became surpluses; the economy enjoyed its longest boom ever, achieving something close to full employment without inflation; indices of social distress, such as the rates of poverty, crime, and teen pregnancy, dropped precipitously; peace reigned, mostly; and by the time he left both the number of federal employees and the tax burden on the middle class were lower than they had been when he arrived. In spite of or maybe because of his impeachment by a party-line vote in the House of Representatives, his end-of-second-term poll ratings were the highest ever measured. The case is, I admit, a trifle, er, Clintonian. Ross Perot.
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The University of Pennsylvania held a forum focused on the results of the elections and its effects on the rd Congress. Several… read more. Several correspondents and a member of Congress participated to talk on issues in the presidential and congressional elections, including the alleged influence of the press on U. Excerpts from the evening newscast of a Dallas television station featured coverage of the Presidential election…. High school students, members of a seminar in political science, discussed the presidential election, including…. Lucien Blackwell U. Representative [D] Pennsylvania. Eleanor Clift Contributing Editor Newsweek. Frank I. Steven V.
Fortune -- Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Congressman who will be President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief of staff, is "dangerous, absolutely relentless when he's got a political kill in sight," according to an admiring Republican colleague, Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole. Emanuel is also, President Clinton once told Fortune, "one of the top political minds in Washington," a former ballet dancer who "favors the counterattack over the attack. From his years in the U. House of Representatives, he knows his way around Capitol Hill - and was the chief architect of the Democrats' recapture of Congress. Find out how Emanuel's life was shaped by a near-death experience in high school and lifelong competition with and enduring love for two equally successful brothers in this profile by Fortune's Nina Easton. On a wretchedly hot August day outside the Caterpillar tractor plant in Montgomery, Ill. This is , the calm before the Katrina storm, and a rigorous mountain-biking schedule has the President in top shape. In off-camera chitchat with the shirt-sleeved lawmakers, Bush takes note of Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel's deep tan, prompting the year-old Emanuel to boast about the miles of swimming and biking in his triathlon training schedule. This story is an excerpt from the story that ran in the October 2, issue of Fortune.
