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...White House is going to try very hard to push this legislation through the House," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "And if it doesn't pass, Clinton will beat the Republicans over the head with their failure in the fall." Clinton has grabbed this opportunity with a renewed sense of purpose; he has been talking a blue streak on gun control this week, playing to the general sense of horror over the latest gun-related violence. The President told an audience earlier this week that the rate of accidental gun deaths among American children is nine times higher...
...This story is rife with ironies," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "In the last couple of years, there have been quite a few women and minorities in the presidential detail - an incredibly elite and dangerous position. These people are all willing to take a bullet for the President." Only when those same agents try to move into the managerial positions, adds Branegan, do they encounter resistance. Agency figures appear to bear out the allegations: Black agents make up just over 10 percent of the Secret Service ranks but less than 5 percent of those in management positions. Frustrated...
...Reported by Tamala M. Edwards with Bradley, Jay Branegan and Karen Tumulty with Gore and Eric Pooley/New York
...Clinton, chart at his back and Magic Marker in hand, announcing a host of Great Society-esque initiatives, including generous spending on education and health benefits for the poor. "Election years are the best time for a president to get his agenda passed," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Some of Clinton's most crucial achievements - the minimum wage hike and the balanced budget - came in 1996. This year the Republicans have two problems: First, they've got this popular president with an ambitious agenda, and they don't want to be a do-nothing Congress; second...
...Clinton goes deep into enemy territory to claim such popular ideas as ending the marriage tax penalty," says Branegan, "and that leaves the Republicans with the choice of either kvetching that he stole their ideas and looking churlish, or broadly supporting him. You can also be sure that whatever big-spending programs he's proposed poll-tested well with voters." That leaves the GOP facing a challenge of picking their battles against his legislative spending agenda in a way that differentiates them from the Democrats while appealing to moderate voters. The biggest beneficiary of Clinton's glowing account...