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...Douglas Brinkley Historian...
...Clinton's agenda. The pursuit has been manic and ambitious in the past months: the China trade bill, the Camp David summit, eight foreign trips to 14 countries, a year-end legislative showdown with Congress, strategizing his wife's senatorial campaign, planning a historic visit to Vietnam. Says Douglas Brinkley, a historian and biographer of Jimmy Carter: "He's treating every day like it's his last day in a Herculean struggle with history, to prove he was on the job and to prove he was a good President...
...billion-dollar question is whether the last-minute ads make any difference. Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University, says that in the past two elections, Bill Clinton did himself far more good with early ads. "The effectiveness of advertising," he says, "probably diminishes the closer you get to the election itself." As if you Michiganders didn't know that already...
Columbia University presidential scholar Alan Brinkley says even if Gore is a more logical pick than Clinton, he is still a long shot...
...Harvard alum with no scandals in his past (or at least no big ones)," Brinkley writes in an e-mail message. "But I would be surprised if Harvard chose a partisan figure to be its president....I suspect Harvard will not want someone whose presence would alienate some potential donors...