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A New Presidency
 
 
Clinton was in many respects the perfect leader for a party divided between liberal and moderate wings. He tried to assume the image of a pragmatic centrist who could moderate the demands of various Democratic Party interest groups without alienating them.

Avoiding ideological rhetoric that declared big government to be a positive good, he proposed a number of programs that earned him the label "New Democrat." Control of the federal bureaucracy and judicial appointments provided one means of satisfying political claims of organized labor and civil rights groups. On the ever-controversial abortion issue, Clinton supported the Roe v. Wade decision, but also declared that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare."

President Clinton's closest collaborator was his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the campaign, he had quipped that those who voted for him "got two for the price of one." She supported her husband against accusations about his personal life.

As energetic and as activist as her husband, Ms. Clinton assumed a more prominent role in the administration than any first lady before her, even Eleanor Roosevelt. Her first important assignment would be to develop a national health program. In 2000, with her husband's administration coming to a close, she would be elected a U.S. senator from New York.
 
 
A New Presidency - Free printable reading on Bill Clinton with questions (PDF file) for high school United States History students.
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Directions: Read the text above, then answer the questions below. 1. In what ways was Bill Clinton a political centrist? 2. What role did Hillary Rodham Clinton play in her husband's presidency? 3. What major legislation did Bill and Hillary Clinton attempt to pass? Click here to print.
 
 
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Text courtesy of the U.S. State Department, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2005