White House Increasingly Out of Touch
David Keene, The Hill
Presidents tend to get upset when they discover that their agenda isn't a carbon copy of the agenda of the voters who put them in office.Some presidents adjust to reality; others seem willing to resort to almost any means to get what they want. When the public rejected his early big-government schemes, Clinton simply announced that "the era of big government is over"� and went on. Nixon, on the other hand, decided that if he couldn't accomplish what he wanted with public support, he'd work in the dark. It is becoming clearer by...
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