Chicago
OPPORTUNITY, Responsibility, and Community” — this, Leon Panetta told the press three hours before Bill Clinton spoke at the Chicago convention, was “the general context” of the president’s acceptance speech. But, as the world soon discovered, the speech was actually swallowed up in the chaos of policy proposals, sermonettes, and self-addressed valentines that lasted for well over an hour. Something happened to the “general context” on the speech’s journey from concept to execution. What happened to it was Bill Clinton.
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