Episode 4: False Spring

The Revolution with Steve Kornacki

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bill Clinton becomes president in 1992 and scandal follows. The Republicans now stand unified against tax hikes, and Gingrich emerges as the heir apparent.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, the President-elect, William Jefferson Clinton.
0:07.0	It's January 20, 1993, and Bill Clinton is being sworn into office by Chief Justice William Rhenquist.
0:14.0	He is about to become the first Democratic president since Jimmy Carter left office a dozen years earlier.
0:21.0	It's 40 degrees on the National Mall and a chilly wind blows as Clinton delivers his inaugural address, but he's talking about spring.
0:31.0	A spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy.
0:35.0	It's a great honor to be here today.
0:39.0	It's a great honor to be here today.
0:42.0	It's a great honor to be here today.
0:45.0	It's a great honor to be here today.
0:48.0	Spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America.
0:57.0	He acknowledges the one-term president. He's just unseated.
1:01.0	I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half century of service to America.
1:09.0	For America, this is a moment of generational transformation.
1:15.0	Bush and the six presidents before him were all part of the World War II generation.
1:20.0	Bill Clinton is now America's first baby boomer president.
1:24.0	He's won this office by promising change.
1:27.0	The sluggish economy was the top issue in the campaign, and Clinton scored points by portraying Bush as out of touch with everyday Americans.
1:35.0	For Bill Clinton's party, though, this moment is much bigger.
1:39.0	They've controlled the House for four decades at this point, and the Senate for most of that time too.
1:44.0	But other than Carter's ill-fated single-term, the White House has eluded them for the past generation.
1:50.0	This was said to be Bill Clinton's big achievement in the campaign.
1:54.0	He had broken the Republican lock on the Electoral College.
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