On the Edge: The Clinton PresidencySimon and Schuster, 08/11/1995 - 462 páginas Clinton's far-reaching domestic proposals and considerable achievements are recounted, as well as the distracting and corrosive personal struggles, especially Whitewater. Drew portrays his legislative gambles - from health care to NAFTA - and his costly inattention to foreign policy - the confused policymaking on Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti. She reveals the struggles within the President's foreign policy team. She traces how controversies over such a wide range of issues and events - gays in the military, the mishandling of Zoe Baird's and Lani Guinier's nominations, the $200 haircut, the travel office, and the death of Vincent Foster - have undermined confidence in Clinton's Presidency and fanned the flames of "the character issue." She shows sides of Clinton never seen before and explores the critical and little-understood role of Hillary Rodham Clinton - both as a power and as a personality - and measures the truly unprecedented influence of Vice President Al Gore. |
Índice
INTRODUCTION | 15 |
INAUGURATION | 17 |
TRANSITION | 21 |
EARLY TROUBLES | 36 |
FACING THE FACTS | 57 |
STARTING AGAIN | 76 |
ADJUSTING | 89 |
EARLY TRIUMPH | 107 |
WORLD LEADER | 244 |
WHITE HOUSE TRAGEDY | 248 |
RECONCILED | 260 |
THE SIEGE OF SARAJEVO | 273 |
THE CALENDAR | 285 |
ROLLOUTS | 293 |
IMBROGLIOS | 315 |
NAFTA | 338 |
STIMULUS | 114 |
PROFILE | 123 |
BOSNIA | 138 |
HOUSE CALLS | 164 |
MAY TROUBLES | 174 |
HILLARY CLINTON AND HEALTH CARE | 189 |
CIVIL RIGHTS | 198 |
SUPREME COURT | 212 |
THE SENATE RECONCILES | 222 |
THE NEW WHITE HOUSE | 231 |
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE | 356 |
DECEMBER | 374 |
ANOTHER START | 394 |
ANNIVERSARY | 413 |
EPILOGUE | 422 |
AFTERWORD | 438 |
AUTHORS NOTE | 442 |
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