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Presidents and ordinary folk in Clintons era discussed
A column muses on the idea of presidential ordinariness amid budget battles and media scrutiny. It weighs Clinton against past leaders, notes public perception shifts, and recalls figures like Wilson Truman and de Gaulle while hinting at the evolving definition of leadership in modern politics.
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House
Senate
Lawrence
Bill Clinton
Clinton
LBJ
White House
Bob Dole
Lincoln
Wilson
Truman
Kennedy
Ross Perot
Perot
Tom
Theodore Roosevelt
Reagan
Bush
Mark Shields
David Broder
Sam Donaldson
Canton
Ohio
Washington
Rush Limbaugh
Harry Truman
Pendergast
C.L. Sulzberger
Sulzberger
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Konrad Adenauer
Dag Hammarskjold
Nikita Khrushchev
Tokyo
John Major
Francois Mitterand
Helmut Kohl
Michigan
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
George Bush
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