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Washington, D.C.

IN Chillicothe, Ohio, on the morning of February 19, members of the traveling White House press corps awoke in motel rooms so frigid that all the heat had collected near the ceiling, refusing to descend to bed level. Many had spent the night shivering under the covers in their clothes. They had made the trip to be with the President as he began his nationwide sales campaign for his budget plan, which he and they were calling his “economic program.” The day would prove memorable, and not just because of the brutal weather. Bill Clinton in the space of a few hours would say and do more to reveal himself than at perhaps any time before or since, though the extent of the day’s meaning would not become clear until later.

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Washington, D.C.

IN Chillicothe, Ohio, on the morning of February 19, members of the traveling White House press corps awoke in motel rooms so frigid that all the heat had collected near the ceiling, refusing to descend to bed level. Many had spent the night shivering under the covers in their clothes. They had made the trip to be with the President as he began his nationwide sales campaign for his budget plan, which he and they were calling his “economic program.” The day would prove memorable, and not just because of the brutal weather. Bill Clinton in the space of a few hours would say and do more to reveal himself than at perhaps any time before or since, though the extent of the day’s meaning would not become clear until later.