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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (23677)3/20/2008 4:05:42 PM
From: Hope Praytochange  Read Replies (1) of 224748
 
The Early Word: Clinton Papers Reveal Little
By Ariel Alexovich

More than 11,000 pages documenting Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as first lady were released yesterday, and they contain “all the emotional punch of a factory-worker’s timecard,” concludes John M. Broder of The New York Times.
After poring over the data, he notes that the documents’ many redactions make it difficult to judge the scope of Mrs. Clinton’s influence on policy, since many of the pages include vague listings such as “private meeting.”
The documents offer no support for her assertions on the campaign trail that she helped negotiate the Irish peace accords or facilitated the flow of refugees in the Balkans, but neither do they disprove them. There is no evidence to back up her assertion that she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act, the first legislation Mr. Clinton signed as president in February 1993.
They provide no insight into her role in appointments to key administration posts or in courting donors for her political campaigns or her husband’s, nor in how she coped with revelations in 1998 of her husband’s sexual betrayal with a young White House intern.
“What the schedules do show, however,” writes The Wall Street Journal, “is that Mrs. Clinton had some involvement in an issue that she now says she opposed: the North American Free Trade Agreement. As first lady, Mrs. Clinton presided over meetings where Nafta was discussed, the schedules show. Her husband signed the accord.”
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