Bill Clinton

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Bill Clinton
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Traditional Stereotypes

• Democrats/Liberals Republicans/Conservatives
• Tax and Spend Favor the rich
• government action government is the problem
• can be the solution
• government spending cut government spending
• is necessary
• taxes are necessary cut taxes
• government regulation cut government regulation
• is necessary

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Democratic Party Changes

• 1960s-1980s
• Loss of South
• Reagan shifts the electorate to right
• Crushing loss in 1984
• Deficit
• Tax Revolts
• Perceived failure of Great Society and Reaganomics

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Democratic Party Changes

• New Democrats
• Socially liberal
• Fiscally Conservative
• Pro-Business
• Government has limited, but important role
• Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)

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The New Politics

• Democrats
• Liberals vs. Centrists
• New Deal/Great Society Democratic Leadership
  Council
• pro-labor pro-business
• maybe protectionist free trade
• socially liberal socially liberal
• activist government limited, but important,
  government role
• Members
• Sen. Walter Mondale Pres. Bill Clinton
• Sen. Ted Kennedy (MA) VP Al Gore
• Sen. Harry Reid (NV) Gov. Mark Warner (VA)
• Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) Sen. Hillary Clinton
  (NY)
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA) Sen. Barack Obama (IL)
• Gov. Bill Richardson (NM) Gov. Jennifer Granholm
  (MI)
• Sen. Robert Byrd (WV) Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (KS)
• Winner Centrists

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The New Politics

• Republicans
• Moderates vs. Conservatives
• pro-choice anti-abortion
• balanced budget balanced budget
• socially liberal socially conservative
• small, but active, government government is the
  problem
• Members
• Gov. George H. W. Bush Pres. George W. Bush
• Mayor Rudy Giuliani VP Dick Cheney
• Sen. John McCain (AZ) Gov. Mike Huckabee (AR)
• Sen. Richard Lugar (IN) Rep. Newt Gingrich (GA)
• Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) Rep. Tom Delay (TX)
• Gov. Mitt Romney Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY)
• Sen. Chuck Hagel Justice Antonin Scalia
• Winner Conservatives

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1992

• Clinton 43
• Bush 37
• Perot 19
• The electoral map 1992

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Was Clinton a New Democrat?

• Gays in the military
• Health Care
• Budget
• Triangulation and Welfare Reform
• Trade

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Clintons Legacy?

• 1. Economic World Order Building
• NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
• FTAA Free Trade Area of the Americas
• APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• WTO World Trade Organization
• 2. Pro-Business Democrat

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• The Trust Issue

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Clinton Haters

• American Spectator
• Regnery Publications

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Whitewater-Lewinsky Chronology I

• Whitewater Vince Foster
• Estates story suicide
• (NY Times) (July 93)
  
• investigation Atty Gen Robert Fiske (1994)
• files disappear Reno mid-1994 Kenneth Starr
  appoints Strategy find
  Independent anyone who Clinton
• Counsel told about finances
• American Spectator David Brock Paula goes
  public Paulas lawyers
• Arkansas project Story about sues
  President Clinton enemies
• Paula
• Clinton Arkansas Rivals

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Whitewater-Lewinsky Chronology II

• Nov. 1995 Affair ends
• Clinton begins 1997
• Affair with
• Lewinsky
• Jan 1998 August 1998 Starr report
• Jones lawyers Clinton testifies Sept 1998
• get a tip Starrs Grand Jury
• ask about Lewinsky denies affair
• Jan 1997
• USSC rules Reno gives Starr Starr
  gets tapes Impeachment
• Legal to sue a approval to of
  Lewinsky-Tripp proceedings
• President investigate conversations
  begin
• Clinton-Lewinsky Dec. 1998
• Jan 1998
• Clinton and Lewinsky Senate
• deposed in civil trial acquits
• deny affair 1/99

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Lewinsky Gate

• Comparison to other scandals
• Whitewater Estates
• Vince Foster

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• David Brock Paula Jones

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The Evidence and the Prosecution

• Monica Lewinsky Ken Starr

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Articles of Impeachment

• Article One Perjury before Grand Jury
• Passed House rejected by Senate
• Article Two Perjury in Civil Suit
• Rejected by House
• Article Three Obstruction of Justice
• Passed House rejected by Senate
• Article Four Perjury in Questions to Judiciary
  Committee
• Rejected by House