Bill Clinton: “Well, you tell me. I don't know. All I know is, I went to Cleveland the other day, and I talked to these four television…”

“Well, you tell me. I don't know. All I know is, I went to Cleveland the other day, and I talked to these four television folks locally. And they said--I'll just lay it out--this guy said, ``I was for you, but I'm mad at you because since you've been in Washington, you've spent all your time on Bosnia and gays in the military.'' I said, ``How do you know that?'' He said, ``I watch the news every night.'' [Laughter] And I said, ``Well,'' I said, ``okay, let me tell you,'' I said, ``I just did an analysis of what I did the first 100 days. I spent 25 percent of my time on foreign policy, all foreign policy, including going to Canada to see Mr. Yeltsin. I have to. That's my job. No one else can do that. I spent 40 percent of my office time and about 55 percent of my total time working on the economy and health care''--let me finish--``and 20 percent of the time working on other domestic policies and seeing people and doing that.'' He said, ``How much time have you spent on gays in the military?'' I said, ``Two and a half hours.'' He said, ``I don't believe that.'' I said, ``That's the truth. You can look at the calendar.'' So all I'm saying is controversy gets news. And when we're out here working on things that aren't controversial, it's often not reported in the news. And I have to find a way to do a better job of communicating directly to the American people as well as--I'm not saying we haven't made any mistakes. If you do a lot of things, you're going to make some mistakes. But the major failure since February 17th is not being able to communicate directly what we are doing and answer directly the questions and the criticisms of the American people. That's been the major problem, and I've got to figure out how to do it. Selection of Attorney General Mr. Smith. You know what it is, though, I mean, given all of that stuff, motor voter, budget, all that other stuff, on a day-by-day basis, a week barely goes by that there isn't some sort of story that it sounds like--and I think people here would say, is the President on sure footing? One, two, three different choices for Attorney General. Flip- flop: We're going to get tough on Bosnia, and then we're not going to get tough on Bosnia.”