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...without your permission, I'm going to smoke a cigar." Clinton was one step ahead of his Security Adviser. "Well, come on over," he replied, "I'm having one too." Sidestepping the First Lady's ban on White House smoking, the two men walked out onto the second-floor Truman Balcony, gazed in the direction of the Washington Monument and lit up a pair of stogies...
...built in 1931 by Union Electric createdthe area's main landmark, the Lake of the Ozarks.A little further upstream, the U.S. Army Corpserected the Truman Dam a decade ago. Before thedams, steamships came up the Osage River from theMissouri River, and some early settlers thoughtWarsaw might one day grow to rival Kansas City inpopulation and commerce...
Thus armed, Clinton will run for re-election against the Republican Congress, Truman style. Truman ran against the "do-nothing" 80th Congress. Clinton will run against the "mean-spirited" 104th. His promise-to preserve the basic structure and existing subsidies of the welfare state-is a pure strain of what political analyst Kevin Phillips once termed reactionary liberalism...
...course, one cannot expect Bill Clinton in the 1990s to accomplish as much. Nevertheless, he can still benefit from Truman's common-sense approach to the problems at hard...
Please do not misunderstand. I am not suggesting that Clinton should move to the right; that would be a grave mistake. President Truman made the same mistake when he ordered the creation of the loyalty program under which all Federal employees were subject to investigation. Trying to appease the growing right-wing clamor over Communists in government, he only made matters worse...