TOPEKA, Kan. President Clinton today urged Americans to "coolthe rhetoric and talk about the facts" on health-care coverage as hepressed a weeklong campaign to boost support for his embattled reformpackage.
Standing before a friendly crowd of more than a thousand Kansanspacked into an airport hanger, a giant American flag flutteringbehind him, Clinton recited the accomplishments of his administrationand insisted America "can do better" on health care.
It was the first stop on a two-day Midwest swing in whichClinton planned to preside over two more televised town meetings topromote his health care plan despite the lumps he took earlier thisweek using the same type of public forum.
Clinton recited the shortcomings of the current health-caresystem - with 58 million uninsured and millions more underinsured -and declared: "I believe we can do better. I think you think we cando better. And if we cool the rhetoric and talk about the facts andhave practical and compassionate approaches to this, we will solvethis problem."
After an afternoon factory tour in Topeka, the president plannedto conduct televised town hall meetings in Kansas City, Mo., tonightand in Minneapolis on Friday evening.
Aides hoped the road trip would help revitalize both Clinton andhis domestic agenda.
But in a Charlotte, N.C., town hall meeting televised in ninestates Tuesday night, the president faced a string of skeptical andeven hostile questions. He showed visible anger at some of thequestions, which ranged from his credibility on Whitewater to hishandling of the nuclear-inspection crisis in North Koreaand hisabandonment of his campaign promise for a middle-income tax cut.
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