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Article: The Clinton Battle Plan; 'People didn't give Democrats a mandate,' Bill Clinton warns. 'They gave us a chance.' A chance to do what?(Bill and Hillary Clinton)(Democratic candidates for 2006 presidential elections)
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- November 27, 2006
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Byline: Jonathan Alter (With Eleanor Clift)
For right-wing conspiracy theorists, this is the belly of the beast--a dinner at the Four Seasons in New York for the 20th anniversary of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Portentous Ivy League professors, Upper East Side gazillionaires, Precambrian media pooh-bahs; Dan Rather and Al Franken and Paul Pelosi, spouse of the Speaker-elect. Almost all in attendance cheer the results of the midterms while bemoaning the demise of old media. Suddenly, shimmering over the tabletops, comes a vision of what was and might yet be again: in full plumage, arriving and departing separately per ...