1992 Gwen Ifills Cleareyed Coverage of Bill Clinton
'In 1992, a Washington outsider — almost Falstaffian in his imperfections — was elected president after what seemed more like a roller-coaster ride than a road to the White House.
Gwen Ifill of The New York Times was along for the journey. She chronicled and dissected the campaign by Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas for the Democratic nomination on through the early days of his presidency, with a deft blend of reporting and analysis.
“Mr. Clinton has begun to get a taste of the costs of compromise,” she wrote in December 1992. “And there is no better example of this rude awakening than in his efforts to assemble a Cabinet that, in his words, would ‘look like America.’ ”
“Mr. Clinton is suffering the pains of a campaigner who must now switch to governing in an environment where even political friends can be enemies if it serves their immediate purpose. In Washington, that is the course of everyday business.”
“Being stuck between a rock and a hard place is not any politician’s favorite place to be. And for Mr. Clinton, who has made straddling competing interests something of an art form, it is a particularly tough posture.”
Ms. Ifill, who died this week at 61, has been hailed as an exemplary broadcast journalist.
But she was also a newspaper correspondent of the first rank.'>>>
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Thank you for your honest and intelligent service, Gwen.
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