Recovering America

GEORGE F. WILL

BILL CLINTON is in the process of learning what Adlai Stevenson meant when he said America is a great and wonderful country in which any young person can grow up to be President—and that’s just the risk you take. It serves the professional interests of the political class and the emotional needs of their journalistic echoes, who feel important in proportion to the importance of what they are writing about, to say quadrennially that the just completed election is the most important presidential election since God- knows-when. But frankly, this was the least important presidential election since at least the 1920s.

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GEORGE F. WILL

BILL CLINTON is in the process of learning what Adlai Stevenson meant when he said America is a great and wonderful country in which any young person can grow up to be President—and that’s just the risk you take. It serves the professional interests of the political class and the emotional needs of their journalistic echoes, who feel important in proportion to the importance of what they are writing about, to say quadrennially that the just completed election is the most important presidential election since God- knows-when. But frankly, this was the least important presidential election since at least the 1920s.