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...easy to enter an intellectual coma on the last day of exams (or even earlier) and sleep through the summer without ever picking up a newspaper or watching the evening news. So in case you missed Dan Rostenkowski's stamp-gate, the White House's suicide-gate, Ross Perot's talk-show-gate, General John Shalikashvili's Nazi-gate and Jesse Helm's Dixie-gate, here are the highlights of the summer...
...Ross Perot continued his demagogic quest for attention, but every time he was asked for specific numbers to back up his grandiose plans, he said he had left them at home. Seems he didn't expect journalists and talk show hosts to actually ask him questions. By the end of the summer, even Jay Leno was challenging Perot's jingoistic race-baiting...
After weeks of writing and rewriting, Bill Clinton was ready in June 1992 to publish Putting People First, a slim volume on his entire foreign and domestic program. After a brutal primary season, Clinton was running third in the polls, behind both George Bush and Ross Perot, and the Democrat's aides hoped the book would help jump-start his campaign. But on June 22, as the plates of Clinton's book were literally going on the presses, Little Rock, Arkansas, headquarters called for a halt. One line in a single chart just didn't make sense. The problem...
Clinton realized in the wake of Perot's surge that he couldn't stick with an expensive, government-run system such as "pay or play." This also meant that the great liberal hope, a single-payer system in which the government would become everyone's insurer, was a nonstarter. Clinton needed a new approach. In August his health advisers began moving toward the notion of providing universal coverage but relying on market forces to hold down costs. Known as "managed competition," the system would create regional alliances that would buy coverage in large, economical packages from rival groups of doctors...
...swept through the task force in late spring, temporarily sidelining dozens of ! participants. Even Magaziner, who was bearing up better than most, caught walking pneumonia. Late one night, while toiling over financing provisions so arcane that even he found them confusing, Magaziner quipped, "Next time, I'm voting for Perot...