Word: elected
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...vote in the first place. But before I speak for my generation, I think of Bush's appearance before a crowd of 1,100 young Republicans last June. "Our country," College Republican chair Tony Zagotta said, introducing Bush, "means too much to this generation before you to elect a failed governor or an egotistical gadfly." Press reports described the affair as "one of [Bush's] warmest receptions of the campaign...
...annual New Year's Renaissance Week at Hilton Head, South Carolina, some years earlier. But it wasn't until she was summoned late last year to Little Rock, initially to be vetted for the post of White House counsel, that she struck a fast rapport with the President-elect. "Clinton likes people who he likes," explains a presidential aide. Baird also boasted an impressive connection to the Clintons' alma mater, Yale Law School: her husband is a constitutional scholar on the school's faculty...
Before dawn on Inauguration Day, Brent Scowcroft, the outgoing National Security Adviser, strode up the stairs to Blair House to deliver his final briefing to the President-elect. It focused, naturally, on Iraq. At the Pentagon, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a similar presentation to incoming Secretary of Defense Les Aspin. The sessions amounted to a formal hand-off; what to do about Iraq is up to Clinton and the national-security team he is assembling...
Clinton's slowness in developing an economic plan has led to a confused political strategy. Because Clinton's team is still unsure what policy to pursue, the President-elect has sent out mixed signals to the public. In late November, Clinton played down reports of a resurgent economy on the eve of the holiday shopping season, apparently to preserve dissipating political momentum for a short-term spending program to stimulate the economy. When the deficit estimates mushroomed in early January, Clinton's aides said the stimulus might have to shrink, though the final amount seems very much in flux...
...foreign affairs, the President-elect has been hit for adopting George Bush's Haitian refugee policy and the outgoing Administration's nuanced response to China's human-rights violations. As the chore changes from campaigning to governing, both of Clinton's "new" positions seem proper. The real test of Clinton's professed commitment to human rights for Haitians will turn on his efforts to change that nation's repressive policies. China is a trickier case, and Clinton's newly expressed caution is well placed. The U.S. indeed has "a big stake in not isolating" China. If Beijing continues its economic...