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CLINTON: Look, when you ran that ad talking about how you were the truth teller, the only truth teller, that everybody else is running based on polls, and I was trying to increase the deficit with the middle-class tax cut, you knew it wasn't so. ((Nebraska Senator Bob)) Kerrey and I paid for the middle- class tax cut ((by increasing the tax bite on the wealthiest Americans)). So I don't know what your screaming means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heated Exchange over Mudslinging | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

CLINTON: What worked was when I gave the American people the different choice. Your choice was, "Here I am, a truth teller against a middle-class tax cut that is going to increase the deficit." My choice was, "I don't want more across-the-board, something-for-nothing cuts in the capital gains." I am for targeted benefits that people will already get, so I get to characterize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heated Exchange over Mudslinging | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...call a truce. "Bill," he said, "now that we are face to face, why don't we agree that all the TV we do from here on in ((will be about)) what we stand for?" Clinton declined, accusing Tsongas of posing in his ads as the "only truth teller" among the candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clash of Visions | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

This charge was always nonsense, but cold warriors never imagined they would ever have the chance to prove it. Now they do. The coldest of cold warriors are among those advocating the most radical and generous embrace of the erstwhile enemy. Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and Dr. Strangelove himself, calls Western assistance for Russia more justified than even the Marshall Plan. Richard Nixon, lifelong anticommunist, pushes massive Western aid and debt relief for Russia. One high Reagan Administration official, Fred Ikle, has gone so far as to propose a "defense community" between America and Russia modeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Really Need A New Enemy? | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...good old- fashioned hatred of one religious group by another. But when an idea is young (gay lib began in 1969, after police harassment sparked a riot in New York's Greenwich Village), there's usually tremendous resistance. It's just the way the world works. Even automated-teller machines took a while to catch on. Can you imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Three-Dollar Bills | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

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