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 The Experience Argument
By Patrick HealyIn 1960, Richard M. Nixon ran for president against John F. Kennedy on a slogan that had powerful resonance for a Cold War America: “Experience Counts.” Mr. Nixon had been vice president for eight years, a senator for two, and a congressman for four. Mr. Kennedy had been a senator for eight years and a congressman for six, and was also a war hero and the scion of a politically powerful family.
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By Patrick HealyIn 1960, Richard M. Nixon ran for president against John F. Kennedy on a slogan that had powerful resonance for a Cold War America: “Experience Counts.” Mr. Nixon had been vice president for eight years, a senator for two, and a congressman for four. Mr. Kennedy had been a senator for eight years and a congressman for six, and was also a war hero and the scion of a politically powerful family.Mr. Nixon’s claim to experience, though, were those eight years in the White House — he was dispatched by President Eisenhower on missions to dozens of countries, he often noted, and he won acclaim for quick thinking during his “kitchen debate” with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow in 1959. Even if Ike memorably struggled to come up with a real contribution that Mr. Nixon had made, the vice president made the experience argument just the same.Hillary Rodham Clinton is similarly claiming that her years in the White House as a First Lady deeply involved in policy have given her the experience needed for the presidency. (“Change is just a word without the strength and experience to make it happen” is one of her taglines.) While she has won respect as a senator of seven years, and has became a student of the military as a member of the Armed Services Committee, her seasoning in the White House is at the core of her campaign argument.But is the experience argument enough to beat Barack Obama and her other rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination this winter?Mrs. Clinton spent Monday and Tuesday pounding Mr. Obama on this front in Iowa, where polls show that she is in a statistical dead heat with him and former Senator John Edwards. First she said that Americans could not afford a president who needed “on-the-job training” once in office; the next day, she jabbed him for saying that his childhood years living in Asia were perhaps the strongest experience he had in foreign relations.“Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges that the next president will face,” Mrs. Clinton said at two campaign stops Tuesday. “I think we need a president with more experience than that.”To underscore that point, Mrs. Clinton’s biggest supporter in Iowa, former Gov. Tom Vilsack, declared on television Tuesday that she was “the face” of the Clinton administration on foreign affairs.Some political spam and bloggers — as well as another rival, Bill Richardson, the former Clinton United Nations ambassador — took sharp exception to that statement. But Clinton advisers continue to maintain that, at a time of war, voters will choose an experienced hand at foreign policy over promises of good judgment and a change agenda, as Mr. Obama has offered.Which brings us back to Mr. Nixon. In November 1960, Mr. Experience narrowly lost to his younger rival. As one political spam put it to me, the experience issue for voters then was not a matter of comparative shopping: They did not look at the two men and say that Nixon has more experience then Kennedy, so therefore we’ll vote for Nixon to be strong against the Soviets, Castro, Mao, etc. Rather, Kennedy had to pass a threshold — did he have enough foreign policy experience, and convey enough sound judgment on national security issues, for voters to feel comfortable putting their safety in his hands?If Mr. Obama simply needs to clear an experience threshold — rather than exceeding Mrs. Clinton on that benchmark outright — the issue may prove less consequential than the Clinton team is hoping. That’s partly why Mr. Obama is always recalling his early opposition to the war in Iraq — probably the biggest foreign policy decision of the last seven years, and one on which many in the party wish Mrs. Clinton had adopted Mr. Obama’s position in 2002.
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