The Pros And Cons Of President Clinton

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Exactly 25 years ago, then, President Clinton was forced to declare at a press conference, “I’m relevant. The Constitution gives me relevance.” Both houses of U.S. Congress had favored the Republican Party and the GOP was rolling out its legislative plans. The next morning, the Oklahoma City Federal Building exploded. The Pundits of this time era went ahead to write that it was a government shutdown later in the year which allowed Clinton to trump the Republicans. It was actually Oklahoma City that first allowed him to step forward as a national leader. In another book written by Michael Waldron titled POTUS it discusses that this was the nation’s first exposure to Clinton as mourner in chief. This was the first time Clinton had been a reassuring …show more content…

The memo stated to “implement intrusive policy against extremist groups. The radical right-wingers would write their local Republican congressmen and that in turn would provoke criticism by right-wing Republicans which would link the right-wings of the party to extremist groups. In the conclusion of the memo it advised Clinton to create self-inflicted linkage between party and extremists. The Clinton Justice Department didn’t go as far as this advisor wanted, but it didn’t matter either. Several Republican members of Congress were soon found making fools of themselves defending militias. And Clinton found his voice at a Michigan State commencement address shortly afterwards that he told graduates, “There is nothing patriotic about hating your country or pretending that you can love your country, but despise your government.” In his memoirs, Clinton didn’t mention the Morris memo that he seen and wrote that the haters and extremists didn’t go away, but they were on the defensive, and for the rest of his term he would never quite regain the position they had enjoyed after Timothy McVeigh took the demonization of government beyond the limits of