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Running as a New Democrat, Clinton won the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections. [51] Some political analysts like Kenneth Baer contended the DLC embodied the spirit of Truman-Kennedy era Democrats and were vital to the Democratic party's resurgence after the presidential election losses of liberals George McGovern, Walter Mondale, and Michael ...
However, after the 1988 presidential election, the shine had dulled on military-veteran politicians, and through 2012, "the candidate with the better military record lost." [2] As of December 2018, George H. W. Bush was the most recent president to have served in combat (as an aircraft carrier-based bomber pilot in World War II). [3]
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.
E ight years after accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton returned to her party’s national convention with a simple message: America is on the cusp of fulfilling the ...
Former President Clinton suggested Democrats need to find a better way to relate to people, as the party searches for answers amid Republicans securing control of the House, Senate and White House.
MORE: In boosting Kamala Harris at DNC, Obamas go high and low. In 2008, Clinton began the campaign season championing Sen. Hillary Clinton in her bid for the Democratic nominee, even taking jabs ...
Bill Clinton ran his 1992 and 1996 campaigns as a New Democrat [21] [22] and (prior to Obama's 2012 presidential re-election) became the only twice elected Democratic president since President Franklin D. Roosevelt (though only one other Democratic president in the years after FDR, Jimmy Carter, was ever a candidate for a second term).
As Democrats eye a potential rules change to pass hundreds of military promotions en bloc, many Republicans – including the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee – say they are ...