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Article: 33 days that defined a candidate The month leading up to the New Hampshire primary was one of the most extraordinary passages in American political history. And no one, including Bill Clinton, anticipated the storm. On the eve of the Democratic national Convention, we look back on those days and what they reveal about a man who would be president.
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 12, 1992
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Bill Clinton's time was expiring in New Hampshire. Worn down by
illness, his voice frayed by fatigue, his jogger's body swollen from
the consumption of junk food, he seemed to be fighting a losing
battle. A freezing rain cast a treacherous glaze on the highway as
he was driven to Nashua less than 60 hours before the polls opened.
Still, Clinton was encouraged when he arrived at the event and saw
that an overflow crowd had come to hear him on the Saturday night
before the primary. It was a good sign, he told his wife.
Hillary Clinton was not so sanguine. "How do we know," she said,
"that they're not just coming to see the freak show?"
By that final weekend, the campaign had acquired the ...