In the beginning he was an unknown candidate running against an unbeatable president, and for a while it went downhill from there. How many times did he die? It is hard to recall. "Several at least,'' Bill Clinton himself said shortly before he rose for good. "Maybe more than several. But I always came back, didn't I?''
Politicians radiate impressions. Few outsiders know their inner cores. In different times and places, personalities connect for different reasons. Clinton prevailed, it seems to me, because of his toughness.
