Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After her appearance at the Charles, Clinton attended another fundraiser at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. Outside of the hotel, the First Lady was greeted by a less friendly crowd--nursing home workers accusing her fundraising sponsors of union busting...
...protestors were joined by people holding signs supporting Clinton in a counter-demonstration...
...Clinton didn't pass by either group on her way into the hotel...
President Clinton must be in agony; he seems to be feeling pretty much everybody's pain at the riot-riven World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Everybody, from labor activists to environmentalists to gung-ho advocates of free trade, got an empathetic nod from Clinton in a speech he delivered Wednesday. "The general consensus is that he gave a very deft speech," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "He skillfully assuaged all sides, on most of the hot issues." Notably, the President is pushing the WTO to open its doors to public scrutiny and accept peaceful protests as integral aspects...
Since this is Clinton - whose public passions notoriously tend toward the convenient - and since he is on the record as a vociferous promoter of free trade, the hand-wringing over labor and environmental raises the question: Are the President's concerns genuine or merely politically expedient? "A lot of Clinton's concern is genuine," says Dowell. "As the mayor of Seattle noted, many Clinton administration officials were protesters themselves not so long ago." And, says Dowell, he is wise to acknowledge the misgivings harbored by many of the protesters. "Clinton accomplished something critical in his speech," says Dowell. "He made...