Has cable ended the golden age of presidential television?
By: BAUM, Matthew A
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Contributor(s): KERNELL, Samuel.
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ArticlePublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, March 1999American Political Science Review 93, 1, p. 99-114Abstract: "The President is not irrelevant here." Bill Clinton's response to a reporter's pointed question during a nationally televised prime-time news conference on April 8, 1995, came across as little more than a desperate denial of the truth. Having seized firm control of Congress in the previous fall's midterm elections and now marching in step toward enacting their legislative program, the "Contract with America," congressional Republicans gave the nation ample reason to suspect that perhaps this Democratic president had indeed become irrelevant.
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"The President is not irrelevant here." Bill Clinton's response to a reporter's pointed question during a nationally televised prime-time news conference on April 8, 1995, came across as little more than a desperate denial of the truth. Having seized firm control of Congress in the previous fall's midterm elections and now marching in step toward enacting their legislative program, the "Contract with America," congressional Republicans gave the nation ample reason to suspect that perhaps this Democratic president had indeed become irrelevant.
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