Word: flopper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President endorsed Mitchell's new posture. Asked by reporters, he declined three times to repeat his threat to veto any bill that does not provide universal coverage. White House aides think they can offset the image of Clinton the flip-flopper by playing up the image of Clinton the man who at least made the first important steps in the direction of change. Even so, the President is wary of the mainstream plan. While it offers a promise of keeping health-care inflation in check, which was one of his goals, it aims to reach just 93% of all Americans...
...survivor. Faced with political extinction in 1988, he promised voters "no new taxes" and won the White House in return. Two years later, he raised taxes in exchange for a budget deal. But when polls in Georgia showed that even country-club Republicans thought Bush was a flip- flopper who didn't stand for anything, Bush pulled another abrupt about- face. "This tax thing is still really bothering people, isn't it?" Bush mused to an Oval Office visitor last Monday morning. "Maybe I should clear...