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Article: Clinton's foreign-policy priority: Jobs.(Nation)(Democratic National Convention)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 23, 1996
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If President Clinton has left his imprint on American foreign policy, it can be summed up the way former Secretary of State James A. Baker III tried to justify the Gulf war: "Jobs, jobs, jobs."
Bereft of a menacing Soviet Union to explain why America must take an active role in the world, Mr. Clinton has, over and over, tried to connect the dots between foreign policy and the domestic economy.
When trade and human rights concerns conflict, as they have in China, the president almost always chooses to maintain good relations in pursuit of wider trade and the jobs it creates.
This administration never fulfilled Secretary of State Warren ...