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...Diller wanders the country, even unemployed, he doesn't touch base with just the common folk. Though his fever put a damper on his private dinner with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Diller still mustered some typical words of advice for the future President. The primaries were over, but Ross Perot's popularity was starting to worry the Clinton camp. "I told him, 'You've won. Act like it.' " It's one piece of advice Barry Diller will never need. Winner or not, he always acts like...
Even before he began speaking, Clinton was on the phone to Ross Perot, briefing him for 12 minutes on the plan; the Texan withheld a full endorsement but praised the President for an "excellent speech." Clinton then took off on what amounted to a campaign swing through Missouri, Ohio and upstate New York; this week he pushes on to California and Washington. In St. Louis, Missouri, Clinton noted that Republicans were already complaining that "he should have cut ((spending)) more" and challenged them, "Show me where, and be specific -- not hot air." Members of the Cabinet and other top aides...
Karen Meredith, 38, a Perot voter, founded the American Association of Boomers three years ago to pursue her generation's interests. She says she is hearing from many of her 26,000 members that Clinton didn't cut nearly enough. "It won't reduce the deficit at all. We will have paid all those taxes for nothing. There are a lot of tough choices out there, and I don't know if Bill Clinton has the guts to be unpopular...
...children's activists, the consumer groups. White House officials were proud of their willingness to flush the enemy out into the open. "We've already changed the debate from 'Can we take them on?' to 'How much do we dare to do?' " said an official. But it was Ross Perot, in giving his tentative blessing to Clinton's plan, who acknowledged, "More lobbyists will get rich in the next 90 days than in the history of man, trying to manipulate what starts out to be a great idea and turn it into something that's just filled with special- interest...
...Clinton and Bush campaigns as a critical swing county in a critical state. Among the 96,000 registered Democrats, 66,000 Republicans and 173,000 independents, concern over the economy won out over the county's latent conservatism. Clinton took 41% of the vote, vs. Bush's 40% and Perot...