Episode 4: False Spring - MSNBC

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Oct. 31, 2022, 10:15 AM UTC

About this episode:

We participate the epoch of President Bill Clinton. In the 1992 election, Democrats triumph the White House for the archetypal clip since the 1970s and bask coagulated majorities successful the House and Senate. They look poised to present connected an ambitious agenda. But scandals commencement erupting connected a regular basis. By June, Time mag publishes a screen naming Bill Clinton “The Incredible Shrinking President.” And by August, Republicans are crowing astir a bruising conflict implicit Clinton’s budget. Republicans volition present archer voters that Democrats are the enactment that supports the largest taxation summation successful history. This is the opposition Gingrich has spent his full vocation trying to make — and it volition catapult him towards the relation of House Speaker.