Bill and Hill Clinton: Behind Closed Doors

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That is the Clintons' attitude as they prepare to launch the sales job this week. "We do not believe we have all the answers," said Hillary Clinton in a speech last Friday. "If there are any better, more efficient, less costly, quality-driven ways of doing any of this . . . we are open to that." The Clinton plan has been open to change and compromise from the beginning; what seems to give the President special satisfaction is the durability of the basic ideas that underlie his proposal. Standing in the Oval Office only two weekends ago, Clinton thumbed a copy of his soon-to-be-released plan and remarked to an aide, "You know, this is awfully close to what we put out in New Hampshire."