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Chargement... The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White Housepar Bob Woodward
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 2653 The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House, by Bob Woodward (read 2 Oct 1994) This tells the inside story of Clinton dealing with economic issues, concentrating on the 1993 battle over the budget plan. In general, the book presents Clinton in a fairly affirmative light, though he appears to have an anger control problem. If I did not disagree with him so fundamentally over abortion I could support him, since he is far more attuned to the people's welfare than is somebody like Phil Gramm or Bob Dole. This was interesting though ephemeral reading. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Working behind the scenes for the eighteen months following Bill Clinton's election, conducting hundreds of interviews with administration insiders and other key officials, and gaining access to confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works. Clinton's pledge for a new economic deal was the cornerstone of his 1992 campaign, and fulfilling it has been his central ambition and enterprise as president. By focusing on Clinton's efforts to pass a comprehensive economic recovery plan, Woodward takes us not only to the highest level meetings, the hard-fought debates, and the most difficult decisions but also to the very heart of this presidency - and of this man. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book really presages how Obama has attempted to manipulate data and the American people as a pragmatic reformer lifting the burden off the middle class. The Agenda documents how their public face is a sham. I would hope Woodward or others would examine the Obama White House with such clarity and honesty.
Woodward demonstrates how following the Cold War Congress represented the Soviets vs. current American president. A focus group noted that Clinton needed to co-exist with but not dominate the Soviets just as successive American presidents managed relations with their Cold War adversaries.
Working behind the scenes for the 18 months following Bill’s election, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works. In The Agenda, he offers one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published, taking us not only to the highest level meetings, the hard-fought debates, and most difficult decisions but also to the very heart of this presidency — and of this man.
In a day-by-day, at times minute-by-minute account, President Clinton is shown debating, scolding, pleading, celebrating, and raging in anger and frustration. What emerges also is a group portrait of Clinton’s innermost circle of advisers in action — including his wife Hillary, Vice President Al Gore, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and the economic team, the White House staff, and outside political strategists.
Without ambiguity, the main point of "The Agenda" is that in the first year of his Administration, President Clinton fell absurdly short of the promise he made when, in accepting the Democratic Presidential nomination on July 16, 1992, he said, "George Bush, if you won't use your power to help people, step aside, I will." The next April the President was telling his staff with bitter sarcasm: "We're Eisenhower Republicans here, and we are fighting the Reagan Republicans. We stand for lower deficits and free trade and the bond market. Isn't that great?"
In light of the mainstream media‘s attacks upon President Trump Neil Ferguson has pointed out how close the agenda is similar to Trump’s program. If you take out Clinton and put in Trump you will see Trump’s populist vision of presidential economic activism similar to Clinton’s success.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8E1az6T4L20
Stanley Greenberg describes why President Trump won and why Hillary the candidate lost:
https://www.greenbergresearch.com/his-thinking/2017/9/21/how-she-lost