Clinton's catch-22.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Hillary Clinton education reform - Brief article

As the Clintons were entering the White House in January 1993, I wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine advising them about what to do and what not to do. Among my suggestions was not to repeat the mistake I thought Hillary had made with the Clinton education program in Arkansas. Before introducing the Clinton bill in the legislature, she had toured the state, holding meetings to discuss the bill's possible contents. By the end of her tour she had stirred up so much opposition to the possible reforms that the teachers held a near riot outside the governor's mansion and the Clintons had to abandon the cause of education reform. So my advice was that when she had a major reform in mind, she should get her own bill...