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Monday 18 January 2016
Clinton campaign deploys husband Bill very carefully
Former President Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign stop for his wife Democratic presidential can- fense of Marriage Act and
didate Hillary Clinton at Lincoln High School in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016. the “don’t ask, don’t tell”
policy that banned gays
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik and lesbians from military
service. He also has looked
back with regret on signing
the 1994 crime bill, which
led to tougher sentencing
for drug offenses.
“I signed a bill that made
the problem worse,” the
former president told an
audience at the National
Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored
People’s annual meet-
ing in Philadelphia in July.
“And I want to admit it.”
On Wednesday in New
Hampshire, Bill Clinton
detailed the economic
growth under his adminis-
tration, listing statistics on
wage growth, the decline
in poverty and insurance
rates.q
KEENE, New Hampshire ments about the former
(AP) — Bill Clinton promised president’s past sexual im-
voters in 1992 that they’d proprieties
be getting “two for the “I’m not going there,” Bill
price of one” if they elect- Clinton said on Wednes-
ed him to the White House day, when asked about
— a presidential duo of the Sanders at a campaign
young Arkansas governor event in New Hampshire.
and his Yale Law-educat- While Bill Clinton remains
ed wife. a popular figure among
Nearly a quarter century Democrats, some of the
later, the duo is back — but key achievements of his
not quite the same. administration form the
As 2016 Democratic front- basis of Sanders’ critique
runner Hillary Clinton fends against his wife — that
off a rising challenge from she’s too willing to compro-
challenger Bernie Sand- mise liberal ideals for politi-
ers, a Vermont senator, cal gain.
her campaign aides are Sanders has denounced
grappling with how best his rival’s policies on trade,
to deploy what she has same-sex marriage, crime
described as her “not-so- and welfare cuts. He’s
secret weapon.” made reinstating Glass-
During campaign swings Stegall, a Depression-era
through early voting states banking law repealed un-
Iowa and New Hampshire, der Bill Clinton’s administra-
Bill Clinton treaded fastidi- tion, a central attack line of
ously through tightly con- his campaign.
trolled campaign events. A Clinton aides say those cri-
natural-born chit-chatter, tiques miss the larger pic-
he was not giving inter- ture of wage growth, job
views. When he stopped to creation and a balanced
talk with reporters after one budget. In a debate last
recent event, campaign month, Clinton said she
aides turned up the music, would turn to her husband
making a conversation all for economic advice.
but impossible. “He carries a message of
His remarks to voters have peace and prosperity un-
been relatively subdued: der his presidency and I
long on history, statis- think a lot of Americans
tics and nostalgia. He’s would like to get back to
dodged questions about those days,” Clinton said in
Sanders and Republican an interview on NBC’s “To-
front-runner Donald Trump, day Show” on Wednesday.
who’s been baiting the Bill Clinton has said that he
Clinton family with com- regrets approving the De-
