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Article: RATING PRESIDENTS FLAWED GAME.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 23, 1998
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Byline: Marianne Means Hearst Newspapers
President Clinton's continuing popularity despite tawdry charges of womanizing and sexual harassment indicates that we judge our national leaders less by some uniform, high-minded performance standard than by our own emotions and experiences.
That's why any premature assessment of the way Clinton's presidency may ultimately be viewed is bound to be flawed. White House advisers are reported to be concerned that his place in history will be dominated by his sex life rather than his public policy achievements.
Yet the evaluation of a White House occupant like nearly everything else in life, is in the eye of ...