Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compensate their victims--and then move quickly to the drug epidemic. Recall Clinton saying that if he had to do it over again, he'd inhale. And before he can say he was only joking, say it for him, "That's the problem, Mr. President. You have the bully pulpit, and you joke about drugs." Don't forget to quote Democrats like Representative Charles Rangel, who has said, "I've been in Congress for over two decades and I've never seen a President who cares less about this issue." Clinton will slam your early opposition to the drug czar...
Family values are in, and Clinton has used the presidential bully pulpit to wage war against television violence, to call for teen curfews, and to support the use of school uniforms...
Family values are in, and Clinton has used the presidential bully pulpit to wage war against television violence, to call for teen curfews, and to support the use of school uniforms...
...Executive decree he has been pursuing modest and relatively uncontroversial but worthwhile goals--requiring teenage welfare mothers to live at home, for instance, and intensifying the pursuit of deadbeat dads, who have been forced to pay 40% more money for the support of their children. From Clinton's bully pulpit these days comes an endless succession of moderate-conservative preachments: for school uniforms, teen curfews and more cops on the street; against TV violence; for gay rights but against same-sex marriage. Affirmative action? "Mend...
...actually proposed a lot," says Clinton aide Rahm Emanuel. "The Republicans gutted our budget requests." That's true now, but the Democratic Congress cut similarly before the G.O.P. took control, and Clinton, who uses the bully pulpit better than anyone, has mounted it mostly to push other causes...