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difficulty this 2. Military
year in 3. Environmental issues
finding an 4. Medicare (tied)
appropriate Government salaries
role for 5. Education
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would be 1. Budget cuts and government shutdown
comfortable 2. Bosnia
with) after 3. O.J. Simpson trial
her most unique answer: Whitewatergate
prominent
leadership
of the
administ-
ration's
failed
health-care
reform
campaign.
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emained an
important
adviser to
the
president,
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Mrs . Clinton
:oncentrated
on tasks
more
traditionally
associated
with first
ladies, such "The Constitution gives me relevance.·
as her
crusade to --President Bill Clinton. on why his President Bi ll Clinton prepared for a new political battle: the 1996 presidential
improve the election. Early in the election process, the 49-year-old Democratic president
lives of
women, opinions matter when faced with a faced nearly a dozen Republicans looking to be the nominee to run against the
president who had not even announced he was a candidate. But President
:hildren and Clinton had other concerns --taxes and Medicare reform needed attention , and
families. Repub lican Congress. for the first time in many years, the Republican-ruled Congress.

"It was like a gnawing pain in your

neck that you couldn 't get rid of.·
--Speaker of the House Newt

Gingrich . proponent of family values .

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Don't Know: 32.2%
Dole: 23.7%
None: 20.3% "All of the people running
right now seem rather incompetent. "
Clinton: 15.3%
Forbes: 6.8%
Buchanan: 1.7%

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For: 78%
•nator Bob Dole, a Republican from Kansas, wanted to be president of the United States. The
1 for the high office was nothing new for Dole. He ran for vice president once (in 1976) and for Against: 22%
3Sident in the primaries of 1980 and 1988. However, in the primaries of 1996, he did much
Iter, winning in almost every state. If he won this time, he would be 73 years old when he
tered the office, older than any newly elected president.
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