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Clinton and the Economy: Battle over the Budget
Clinton's "triangulation" strategy was an attempt to take control of the budget from the Republicans in Congress. "Once you accept that we're going to balance the budget, now let's have a fight about what we're going to protect," says Clinton's Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. "That's a fight we can win."
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The final months of WWII from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans.
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Part of the award-winning "The Presidents" collection.