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Article: CLINTON LEAVES NO FOOTPRINTS.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 11, 2001
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Because of his political monomania, and because he is a perpetual preener who can strut even while sitting, Bill Clinton relished being president. But other than by soiling the office, he was a remarkably inconsequential president, like a person who walks across a field of snow and leaves no footprints.
It is axiomatic: Some people want public office in order to do something; others in order to be something. Clinton was the latter sort. Which is why he never seriously considered dealing with America's most serious policy problem, and why he was an unserious president.
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