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Article: Co-President Clinton? (President Bill Clinton selects First Lady Hillary Clinton to head health care reform team)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 8, 1993
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The first lady takes over the administration's toughest task: Fixing the health care system
Exactly one Super Bowl ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton offered her husband political salvation: Her stand-by-your-man performance on "60 Minutes" helped right his then foundering candidacy. Now, while Democrats on Capitol Hill fear that Bill Clinton has been diminished by his fight on gays in the military, Mrs. Clinton not only receives praise for her role as commander in chief of the White House's battle for national health care, she gets respect. Her appointment, says Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a leader on health care, signals "that President Clinton is even more serious than he ...