And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its our look at president clinton through the decades. The presidency is the highest office in the land. And over the course of our history, the men who held that post have each impacted and shaped this country. In 1992, the youngest man since jfk, 46 year old William Jefferson clinton, then jfk, 46 year old William Jefferson clinton, then governor elected our fortysecond president of the United States. Today on through the decades we take a look at the presidency and legacy of bill clinton. He was charismatic, intelligent and approachable but his eight years in office would be plagued by personal scandal but that didnt prevent him from leaving office with the highest Approval Rating of an outgoing president since world war ii. We begin, where it all begins for every president. With an election. By november, 1992, the reagan revolution of the 1980s had run out of steam. Reagans successor, president george bush, was seen as aristocrati
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Dignity intact. It is our job to figure out what happened. Hillary has a lot of grit. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I am running for president of the United States. Good evening, im chris matthews. Shes waited a long time for this. Building a worldclass resume as twotime first lady, secretary of state, and with it all a record that has weathered partisan attack. This time she announced on youtube. Im getting ready for a lot of things. A lot of things. Im getting ready to do something, too. Im running for president. It was a bit unorthodox of a venue, but the message was pure democrat with a big d. The deck was still stacked in favor of those at the top. Thank you her friends told me she would wake up every other morning with a different decision. I cant go through that all over again. Then the next day shed get up and say, but look what i could do. I cant let that chance go away. Oh, my gosh, i love yoga. So Hillary Clinton took off for iowa and New Hampshire. Great to see you.
She left office with her dignity intact. It is our job to figure out what happened. Hillary has a lot of grit. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I am running for president of the United States. Good evening, im chris matthews. Shes waited a long time for this. Building a world class resume as twoterm first lady, u. S. Senator from new york, secretary of state, and with it all a record that has weathered partisan attack. This time she announced on youtube. Im getting ready for a lot of things. A lot of things. Im getting ready to do something, too. Im running for president. It was a bit unorthodox of a venue, but the message was pure democrat, with a big d. The deck was still stacked in favor of those at the top. Thank you her friends told me she would wake up every other morning with a different decision. I cant go through that all over again. Then the next day shed get up and say, but look what i could do. I cant let that chance go away. Oh, my gosh, i love yoga. So Hillary Clinto
Citing itself. Citing memos from that legal office over the decades. And chairman nadler points out that one of the Justice Department rules that is completely ignored in that memo is he says the Justice Departments own be longstanding policy is that executive privilege should not be invoked to conceal evidence of wrongdoing or criminality on the part of executive officers. Amazing how that would have been left out of that memo today. Well, and you know, for the white house to be asserting that people should defy subpoenas in the abstract because the white house believes or they can get the office of Legal Counsel to state or the president s lawyers aver something is true is one thing. But when the subpoena goes to an individual loss no longer a Government Official and that individual is held liable for all the consequences that come from defying a subpoena, just putting exclamation points on your orders doesnt necessarily make it any more likely that person is going to decide its in t