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Bill Clinton: I think there's a constant desire for change. But I think what you'll see by next year is that the Vice President will…

On the recordJuly 6, 1999
I think there's a constant desire for change. But I think what you'll see by next year is that the Vice President will be the candidate of change. People will have to decide whether they want the change going on. The rhetoric of compassionate conservatism--half those speeches sound like I gave them in '92. So I think we have to--when we get down to the specifics and people get to focus on the nature of the change, I think that the Vice President will do fine. So I feel good about that. And by the way, I think the right track numbers are coming back up. I think--I don't want to get into polling and political commentary, but the combination of the conflict in Kosovo and the extraordinary shock to the country's psyche that Littleton proposed were the main things that changed the right track/wrong track---- Mr. Brownstein. Are you comfortable with the position the Vice President is in at this point?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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