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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
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- Subject: Hillary's Role in the White House
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184236.12490@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:42:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.162035.17116@dg-rtp.dg.com> crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun) writes:
- >There's a difference between power and influence. Power is the
- >ability to make and implement decisions; influence is the ability to
- >get someone else to make and implement decisions. (Note that
- >influence-peddling, ie lobbying, is not against the law while
- >power-peddling, ie accepting bribes, is.) Most first ladies have had
- >influence but none have had power.
-
- Edith Wilson?
-
- >As I recall, Nancy's influence was
- >limited to personnel decisions, and did not extend to health care
- >policy.
-
- I see no qualitative difference. Other than that the former was behind
- the scenes, while the latter is open.
-
- >Hillary, on the other hand, un-elected, un-appointed, and
- >un-accountable to the American people is being offered power.
-
- Well, so was John Sununu. I much prefer Hillary to him.
-
- At any rate, Congress has to approve anything Hillary's committee
- suggests.
-
- Besides, as another poster pointed out, it's not a particular
- surprise to voters that Hillary is married to Bill and that she
- wasn't going to spend her time in the White House ghostwriting
- a book for Socks.
-
- >If Bill
- >wants her to have a position, let him appoint her and let the Senate
- >confirm her. Just because she raised her hand during Bill's taking the
- >Oath of Office doesn't mean she has a legitimate role in policy-making.
-
- Did she raise her hand?
-
- Why is Bill putting Hillary in charge of a policy-suggesting committee
- worse than Ronnie appointing his cronies to important White House staff
- positions? Besides the fact that she's a woman?
- --
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