Word: brinkley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brinkley adds that the ideas articulated by thescholars were new neither to the staffers nor tothe President...
...think that we convinced anyone ofanything they hadn't already been familiar with,or were not in some way already convinced of,"Brinkley says of the dinner and meetings. "ThePresident and his staff simply needed a chance tostep back from the daily pressure of thepresidency and find some persepective...
...Michael spoke about the need for a languagethat transcends the nuts and bolts of everydayliberal politics, one that adds a moral dimensionto the vision," Brinkley says. "Certainly some of[Clinton's] more recent speeches reflect a newawareness of what seems to be his goal: to speakas less of a technocrat and more as a moralleader...
...Brinkley elaborated this analysis in an Op-Edcolumn about the State of the Union address hepublished in The New York Times last Thursday...
...Basically Michael's idea is that liberalpolitical philosophy is missing its moral center,which is a relatively new set of ideas to emergeform the `left,'" Brinkley says...