Clinton Memos Shows How Little Has Changed

Wall Street Journal: “One of the striking and somewhat dispiriting revelations in the new batch of Clinton presidential archives released last week is just how little seems to have changed in the 20 years since Bill and Hillary Clinton entered the White House.”

“A review of thousands of pages of internal memos shows the 42nd president grappling with many of the same policy dilemmas and stubborn political realities that bedevil the 44th. Each White House trotted out some of the same rhetorical points and tactical maneuvers in trying to move its agenda, running full force into some of the same obstacles.”

Huffington Post points to one memo which shows an adviser decrying parts of a planned Clinton speech on the federal debt as “a fuckin’ lie.”