Word: clintonians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening summit session Wednesday, he worked the room like a campaign kaffeeklatsch, stopping to chat briefly with each of the other leaders before taking his chair. Though he talked tough at times, he set the tone at that first meeting with a sentence that sounded more Japanese than Clintonian: "In hard times we shouldn't react like porcupines. We should open up like sunflowers." He also appealed directly to the Japanese public in a speech at Waseda University. One point: Japanese consumers are hurt by the country's trade restrictions because they pay outrageous prices for imports...
...Clintonian familiarity establishes itself in a process of show-and-tell. We show each other our trials, then we tell each other how concerned we are about them and how determined we are to make things better. Clinton led the national show-and-tell with a tour of the stations of his own life -- his father's death in a car accident, his stepfather's drunkenness, his half brother's drug addiction, his mother's breast cancer. Even incidents that at first appeared to be reflections on his character rather than on his circumstances -- his dithering over the draft...
...companies doing business in the U.S. for $45 billion in taxes over four years. He would rely on that measure to provide nearly one-third of all the new taxes he will need to finance his program to reduce the deficit and increase public investment. The stratagem is characteristically Clintonian: an apparently painless (for Americans) way of generating revenue without raising unpopular levies like the gasoline tax or touching popular spending programs like Medicare...
...Clinton media mavens confirms that only a fool would ignore the lesson of 40 years. As a Bush aide puts it, "Negative works. Everything else is fluff that cushions the impact. We'll be down in the gutter again -- and probably sooner rather than later." To which a smiling Clintonian says, "Yep, that's right. History teaches that the high road only takes you home...