Will the White House Adjust to Reality?
Presidents tend to get upset when they discover that their agenda is not 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 nearly any means to get what they want. When the public rejected his early big-government schemes, Clinton simply announced that “the era of huge government is over”� and went on. Nixon, on the other hand, decided that if he could not accomplish what he wanted with public support, he had work in the dark.
It is becoming clearer by the day that President Obama and his team are more attracted to the Nixon model. Maybe it’s his Chicago background or the fact that, unlike Bill Clinton, the man’s a true believer who meant it when he said…
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