In the First Year of His Presidency, President Bill Clinton's

question 69

Multiple Choice

In the first year of his presidency, President Bill Clinton's major goal, a program to assure affordable health care for all Americans, was defeated by ____________________.

• A) a close vote in the House of Representatives
• B) a betrayal by liberal Democrats who wanted to punish Clinton for being too conservative
• C) special interest groups that were too powerful to be defeated by the health-care task force
• D) the fear of the American public that the health-care plan was the first step toward socialized medicine

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