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...Thursday with more new initiatives, including economic proposals to help soften the blow of the welfare bill he signed last week over the objections of many Democrats. The welfare dispute looms as the main threat to a calm convention as Clinton hopes to become the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win re-election. Democratic officials said Sunday they would not discourage speakers from speaking against the welfare bill or the party's support of abortion rights. "We're not afraid of debate," said party chairman Christopher Dodd. One of Clinton's most vocal critics on the welfare issue, Jesse...
...Jack Kemp traveled the country helping local Republican candidates while collecting chits for his own presidential bid, which he planned to make in 1996. In late October he was in Birmingham, Alabama. The overflow crowd had come to hear the most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician since Teddy Roosevelt, and for a time, Kemp delivered as promised. His old football stories were laced with lessons: "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." His tales recalled the Gipper's golden age: "The world changed because Ronald Reagan had the courage...
Historic turning points in social policy are not always obvious when they occur. Certainly Franklin D. Roosevelt did not foresee that some provisions of the Social Security Act he signed in 1935 would burgeon over the next 61 years into a mammoth federally financed and regulated welfare program. Last week, though, the equally historic nature of the decision facing Bill Clinton was clear not just to the White House but the whole nation. So the President turned his deliberations over a radical overhaul of F.D.R.'s welfare system into a solemn little drama...
...feel the best approach--as Hillary Clinton or Eleanor Roosevelt said, 'It takes a community to raise a child'--it takes a community to resolve an issue," Alavi said...
Dole vs. Couric. Chicken George and Butt Man. Bob Woodward reporting that Hillary communes with Eleanor Roosevelt, and a former FBI man claiming (without evidence) that Bill sneaks out to the Marriott for trysts. The political silly season is upon us--a patch of especially funky Washington weather that is spreading nationwide and reminding Americans why they hate politics. Every election year has one of these strange spells, which always combine high dudgeon and low farce: politicians trading blows over trivial issues while important concerns get reduced to the level of cartoon. What makes this season stand out, however...