Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton had to contend not only with the claim of his marital faithlessness and questions about the way he handled his draft status in 1969, but also with an impression of being a bit too facile -- "Slick Willie," as some call him in Arkansas. The attention to his personal life and the forbearance with which he bore the rude, intrusive process diminished the Slick Willie problem. Clinton, calling himself "the Comeback Kid," got a handsome 25% of the vote for second place...
...Clinton still cannot afford a misstep. Though the New Hampshire results crowded out the Clinton headlines about Gennifer Flowers and his Vietnam-era draft status, the threat lurks in the shadows; in Savannah a veteran held aloft a sign that read NO DRAFT DODGER OR PLAYBOY FOR PRESIDENT. As a Clinton campaign aide put it, "It's a bit like Alcoholics Anonymous. Every single day has to go by. It's never completely behind...
...starting five lifting his arms in the traditional V before an adoring convention come July -- let alone graciously accepting George Bush's concession on Election Night. Bill Clinton for a time looked like a deflating balloon, the air hissing out of his candidacy through a new pinhole labeled Draft Avoidance, as well as the previous puncture made by Gennifer Flowers. He has enough money and organizational support, especially in his native South, to remain a force at least through Super Tuesday on March 10. But even if he could start a comeback, he would not soon -- if ever -- regain...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo, continuing his Hamlet act well past what had been thought to be the last scene, had done nothing to discourage either a New Hampshire write-in campaign or efforts to start a national draft movement. Then there is serious talk about Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the 1988 vice- presidential nominee -- who has passed word that he would accept a draft -- and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, like Gephardt a 1988 also-ran, plus more wistful speculation about Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell -- almost everybody...
...from states where he is not on the ballot. One is to win over delegates who are officially running as uncommitted. Cuomo's admirers have already entered a technically uncommitted but actually pro-Cuomo slate in the Illinois primary March 17. The most far-out scenario is a postprimary draft; it seems so reminiscent of the boss-ridden days as to be almost unimaginable...