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Article: Hillary Clinton older, wiser in ways of Washington Health care reform failure taught first lady to lower lofty ambitions
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 15, 1996
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When the new administration dawns, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be
older, wiser and better schooled in the ways of Washington.
Those who know her say her priorities children, women and
families won't change, though her expectations about how much
government can do almost certainly will.
Lessons from the failure of health care reform in 1993 won't be
forgotten, says Elizabeth Sherman, director of the Center for Women
in Politics and Public Policy, part of the University of
Massachusetts Boston.
"Today she is chastened," Sherman says. "She's found there are
formidable opponents in Washington. And I don't think we'll see her
try to scale the heights of these great mountains again." ...