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Article: Stability and Change in President Clinton's Foreign Policy Beliefs, 1993-96.
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Debate over President Clinton's Worldview
The election of Bill Clinton as president in November 1992 brought to Washington, DC, a "self-admitted [domestic] `policy wonk'" who "was clearly less comfortable with foreign and defense matters than his predecessor."(1) Indeed, throughout the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Clinton made it clear that "if a battle was to be fought, resources of intervention deployed, it would be in a war against domestic problems, not foreign enemies."(2) In other words, the public had a good idea that if Clinton were elected, he would "focus like a laser beam" on the domestic economy in order to be the domestic policy president ...