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So, too, is the perceived lack of benefits from the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, the giant trade deal President Bill Clinton pursued that is widely blamed for U.S. job losses.
They controlled the House for Bush’s first six years in office, and the Senate for four of his eight.
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(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Then: Gephardt served as a Democratic congressman from Missouri from 1977 to 2005 and was House majority leader from 1989 until 1995, when Republicans took control of
The former state House minority leader met with 200 mostly white, older Mainers of French Canadian descent over smothered beef, mashed potatoes and green beans at Lewiston’s Franco Center.
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Another recent Democratic second-term president, Bill Clinton, had approval ratings at or near 60 percent during his final year in office .
A White House official who briefed reporters earlier in the day pointed to past party convention speeches by outgoing second-term presidents, saying they traditionally have talked about their stints
The eight most recent Democratic presidents had a Democratic Congress to work with for at least his first two years, making Grover Cleveland the most recent predecessor Clinton might look to for example
The Democratic nominee also cast the man who stands between her and the White House as lacking the kind of character needed to lead the country.
Chelsea was a teenager when her father, Bill Clinton, became president.
But Wednesday night, White House officials say, he will deliver a speech almost exclusively about Clinton, his party’s presidential nominee. “This speech is about Hillary Clinton.
Though their return to power took eight years longer than planned, Bill and Hillary are again in control of the Democratic Party.
There are those who believe that women will propel Hillary Clinton to the presidency in November, seizing the opportunity to put the first of their kind in the White House.
This time, 96 years after women nationwide were given the constitutional right to vote, she will become the first woman ever nominated for the White House by one of the major political parties.
PHILADELPHIA — With his white-knuckle approach to speechwriting — making changes in the text until the final millisecond — Bill Clinton as president always courted disaster. And then transcended it.
There is some symmetry to the Clinton and McGinty campaigns. Clinton would be the first woman president. McGinty would be Pennsylvania’s first woman senator.
And if Trump gets to the White House, they say, a Vice President Pence can be counted on to be a terrific middle man between a president without any government experience and a House GOP Conference
Together, we will lead our party back to the White House and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity and peace.
He did talk of the need to win back the White House, and he used Trump’s “Make America Great Again ” slogan. But, tellingly, Sullivan never said Trump’s name. Sen.