Word: sandel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friedman says Sandel helped President Clinton "crystallize his thoughts" and develop them in several public forums, including a speech to Black ministers in Memphis, one to movie moguls in Los Angeles and even in his most recent State...
...Some of us encouraged President Clinton tostep back from the details of policy to articulatea broader moral vision for his presidency," Sandelsays. "In his Memphis speech and in the State ofthe Union address he has begun to do this veryeffectively."The President seems to have taken Sandel'sscholarly communitarian theory--which emphasizesthe interrelating value systems amongcommunities--and incorporated it into a preachableand practical theme...
...Sandel downplays his impact on Clinton'sdeveloping vision and his role in Washington.Anxious to appear discreet, he says that"professors kibbutzing on the sidelines should notexaggerate their own importance. My role has infact been very small...
...Sandel's modesty belies the influence whichpoliticians, scholars and reporters alike haveattributed to him in Washington, Boston and NewYork...
...Yorker, The New York Times, and TheWall Street Journal have each reported on Sandel'srapidly increasing political clout. An Op-Ed piecewhich ran in the Journal on December 15 deemsSandel the participant [at the dinner] who"delivered the most compelling call to rhetoricalaction...