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Article: Seeking party central.(Hillary Rodham Clinton and a presidential aide convened a White House meeting of Democrats to discuss the roles and policies of the Democratic Party)(Editorial)
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- The Nation
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- August 10, 1998
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Democratic policy wonks unite, you have nothing to lose but your bickering--and the White House, the Democratic Party and Bill Clinton and Al Gore can gain. That could have been the slogan on July 8 when Hillary Rodham Clinton, assisted by aide Sidney Blumenthal, convened a White House meeting that served as something of a truce between competing clutches of intellectuals within the Democratic Party and as an opportunity to chew over the Clintonites' latest political packaging device: the Third Way. For several hours, fifteen policy experts wrangled with the meta-question of what it means to be a Democrat. That is, what principles and values distinguish their party from ...