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  • (crowd cheering)

  • NARRATOR: It's 1992,

  • President George H.W. Bush is up for re-election.

  • With a squeaky clean image,

  • he's had some of the highest approval ratings

  • of any president.

  • Then, a political bad boy joins the race.

  • (jazzy saxophone music)

  • AJ BENZA: Bill Clinton came on the scene.

  • A young guy, the next Kennedy,

  • handsome, charismatic.

  • ICE-T: Clinton's over here playing the saxophone.

  • I'm like, oh, this dude is smooth.

  • This dude is a real player.

  • NARRATOR: He may be smooth,

  • but Clinton will need some serious help

  • in a presidential race that promises

  • to be anything but boring.

  • CONNIE CHUNG: Scandal wasn't a new thing in politics,

  • but nothing was like Clinton when he was first running

  • for president of the United States.

  • BILL CLINTON: Come on.

  • JOE KLEIN: In the old days,

  • there was one news cycle a day. (laughs)

  • There was the evening news on television.

  • KURT ANDERSEN: Only during Clinton's campaign

  • did we start getting the 24/7 news cycle

  • that previous candidates didn't have to deal with.

  • NARRATOR: Clinton needs a team to stay on top

  • of the news coverage, ready to spin the story.

  • The leaders are young communications director

  • George Stephanopoulos...

  • GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: That's what the American people care about.

  • They wanna move into the future.

  • NARRATOR: ...and their greatest weapon,

  • political consultant James Carville,

  • known throughout Washington as the Ragin' Cajun.

  • CARVILLE: I've always said a political campaign

  • is like you've kicked down a door,

  • you don't know what's behind it.

  • NARRATOR: Carville's a genius at political strategy

  • and keeping the campaign on message.

  • CARVILLE: Stay focused, talk about things

  • that matter to people,

  • you know.

  • It's the economy, stupid.

  • NARRATOR: Combative and loud,

  • he ushers in a new era

  • of political hand-to-hand combat,

  • organized from his war room.

  • CARVILLE: The war room was conceived

  • to deal with... to compress news cycles

  • in a coherent and coordinated way.

  • GEORGE BUSH SR.: And I will stand on my record,

  • and I won't let that Arkansas governor

  • run away from his record either.

  • (crowd cheering)

  • NARRATOR: When Bush attacks,

  • Clinton's war room ignores the old tactic

  • of letting bad stories blow over

  • and goes on the offensive.

  • CARVILLE: What are we gonna do when George Bush attacks us?

  • Why can't we attack George Bush?

  • NEWS ANCHOR: Today, Governor Clinton accused

  • the president's party of misrepresenting his past.

  • Here's ABC's Jim Wooten.

  • CARVILLE: The idea was to answer somethin'

  • in a creative, a provocative way,

  • that editors would see and lead with that story.

(crowd cheering)

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