AT THE HEART OF BILL CLINTON'S 1992 presidential campaign was his
pledge to fix the economy and to use the presidency to do it. The
fundamental difference between George Bush and himself, Clinton said,
was his belief in an activist role for the government. "I know how
President Lincoln felt when General McClellan wouldn't attack in the
Civil War," Clinton said when he accepted the Democratic Party's
nomination on July 16, 1992. "He asked him, 'If you're not going to
use your army, may I borrow it?" And so I say: George Bush, if you
won't use your power to help people, step aside, I will."
