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[accessed July 24, 2012]. Sample size: 1,004 respondents-national survey, adults. Margin of error: +/ 3.2 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

41. "Clinton Inaugural Gala," SNL Transcripts,

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[accessed February 23, 2012].

42. U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II also attended.

43. Gilbert A. Lewthwaite, "Clinton, Set for Oath, Promises 'New Spirit': Iraq Crisis Shadows Inauguration Eve Marked by Visit to Kennedys' Graves," Baltimore Sun, January 20, 1993.

44. See John F. Kennedy, "Inaugural Address," January 20, 1961, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8032

[accessed February 23, 2012], and William J. Clinton, "Inaugural Address," January 20, 1993, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=46366

[accessed February 23, 2012].

45. Clinton, My Life, 478.

46. Garry Wills, "The Art of Oration: Short Is Always Good," Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1993.

47. Bill Clinton, "Response to the Lewinsky Allegations (January 26, 1998)," Miller Center website, University of Virginia,

http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3930

[accessed July 25, 2012]. If there is any other remembered sentence from the Clinton years, it may be this gem: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." The statement was originally made by Clinton before a Starr-convened grand jury investigating Whitewater and other off-shooting scandals. See "The Starr Report," Washington Post website,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/icreport/icreport.htm

[accessed July 30, 2012].

48. William J. Clinton, "The President's News Conference," April 20, 1993, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

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[accessed February 22, 2012]; Clinton, My Life, 498.

49. For more information on McVeigh's life and motives, see Dan Herbeck and Lou Michel, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), and Brandon M. Stickney, "All-American Monster": The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996). Senator John Danforth (R-MO) led a federal investigation of the government's handling of the Waco standoff. His report is available at

http://www.cesnur.org/testi/DanforthRpt.pdf

[accessed June 19, 2012].

50. See, for example, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, "Clinton Must Deliver on Outrage at Bombing," Baltimore Sun, April 21, 1995, and Evan Thomas, Back from the Dead: How Clinton Survived the Republican Revolution (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997), 22.

51. "Federal Agents Seize Elian in Predawn Raid," CNN, April 24, 2000,

http://articles.cnn.com/2000-04-22/us/cuba.boy.05_1_helmeted-agent-delfin-gonzalez-lazaro-gonzalez-they?_s=PM:US

[accessed June 19, 2012].

52. Clinton, My Life, 46970.

53. See "Bill Summary & Status, H.R. 2264," Library of Congress website,

http://thomas.loc.g0v/cgi-bin/bdquery/zTd103:H.R.2264

[accessed July 24, 2012].

54. See "H.R. 2014, Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997," Library of Congress website,

http://thomas.loc.g0v/cgi-bin/bdquery/zTd105:H.R.2014

[accessed June 19, 2012].

55. See Table 1.1, the Historical Budget tables,

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2011-TAB/pdf/BUDGET-2011-TAB.pdf