Word: legacyism
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Shortly before John Glenn left Washington for his flight training, TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger and Washington correspondent Dick Thompson visited him in his Senate office for a wide-ranging discussion of space travel, politics and Glenn's historical legacy. Though apparently happy with where the nation's space program...
No one plays the legacy game anymore. The once amusing pastime is gathering dust in some White House cupboard of the mind, because the footnote is threatening to swallow Clinton. Even if he stays in office--and it would be foolish to count him out--the scandal has ruined his...
The Monica Effect helps explain why Clinton made nary a peep while the Senate slowly strangled campaign-finance reform--a legacy item if ever there was one--and why he sat idly in June as Senator John McCain's tobacco bill went down. Tobacco was Clinton's top domestic item...
One thing Clinton has been able to get others to do this year is talk. The President sees his year-long national conversation on race as a major legacy item. But the heart-to-heart won't amount to much unless Clinton moves to address the plight of the urban...
The only real legacy item left on Clinton's menu is saving Social Security--America's biggest and most successful social program, due to go bust in 2032, thanks to the bulge of retiring baby boomers. Clinton loyalists see the program as the final piece in a legacy trifecta. Says...