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Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton promote higher education

IRVING, Texas (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush, potential foes in the 2016 presidential contest, said Monday that higher education has the power to transform lives and be a force for democracy around the globe.

Clinton and Bush spoke separately at the Globalization of Higher Education conference, but chatted briefly offstage. The event, co-organized by Bush, offered a bipartisan twist for the nation's two dominant political families, both of whom could return to the presidential campaign trail next year. Bush, a former Florida governor, is the brother and son of Republican presidents. Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms in the White House before she returned to political life as a senator from New York and President Barack Obama's first secretary of state.

Onstage in solo performances, Clinton and Bush each focused on education policy and the need to make higher education affordable and accessible across the globe.

"When people around the world have access to this kind of American model of education it illustrates ... that we believe in spreading opportunity to more people, in more places, so that they too have the chance to live up to their own God-given potential," Clinton said at the Dallas event. She's worried, she added, "that we're closing the doors to higher education in our own country so this great model that we've had that has meant so much to so many is becoming further and further away from too many.".

She thanked Bush at the start of her speech, citing his focus on education and his "passion and dedication" to the issue in the private sector.

Bush spoke briefly at the start of the conference.

"Higher education in America has a growing affordability problem while billions in the developing world struggle with accessibility. Exporting U.S. post-secondary education and global consumers at scale can help really resolve both issues simultaneously," Bush said. "Expanding access through technology can bring down the cost of delivery at home and abroad."

Bush, the former Florida governor, has been a vocal supporter of the politically divisive Common Core standards, which specify what math and reading skills students should achieve in each grade. Some conservatives have criticized the standards as a federal intrusion into local classrooms; Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed legislation on Monday making his state the first in the nation to withdraw from the plan.

The two families have produced three presidents since the 1988 election, a streak broken by President Barack Obama's election in 2008.

It was at least the third time in the past year that Bush and Clinton had crossed paths.

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Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve a Free Pass From the Media

David Brock is wrongthe nation and her prospective campaign will be better off if journalists investigate her worst tendencies.

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The media loves conversion stories. So when David Brock, who once rummaged through Little Rock in pursuit of Bill Clintons dirty laundry, returned to the city yesterday to speak at the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, both The New York Timesand Politico took notice. Brock, Politico reported, came to Little Rock to explain his transformation from Clinton-hater to Clinton-defender. But his speech inadvertently did something else. It showed that in his approach to politics, David Brock hasnt changed much at all.

Brocks core argument was that as we approach 2016, mainstream journalists must stay far away from the anti-Clinton attack journalism peddled by the partisan right. In explaining why, Brock cited his own work in the early 1990s for the Richard Mellon Scaife-funded Arkansas Project, in which he dug up a kitchen-sink-full of preposterous allegations, many of which entered mainstream publications, but almost none of which turned out to be true.

Really? Many of the Arkansas Project allegationsthat the Clintons oversaw a cocaine-smuggling ring, that they ordered the murder of Vince Fosterwere of course preposterous. But Brock also uncovered a woman named Paula, who later alleged that while working as an Arkansas state employee, she was escorted by Governor Clintons bodyguard to his hotel room. There, she claims, Clinton exposed himself and demanded sex. When Paula Jones leveled her allegations, mainstream reporters like The Washington Posts Michael Isikoff and The American Lawyers Stuart Taylor did exactly what Brock now says the media should not: They looked into it. And they concluded thatalthough Jones was clearly being used by Clintons political enemiesher story had merit. (If you doubt that, read Taylors summary in Slate of his much-longer American Lawyer investigation into what likely transpired between Clinton and Jones on May 8, 1991. Its horrifying).

Clinton ultimately settled Jones sexual-harassment case for the entire amount she requested. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright found him in civil contempt of court for intentionally false testimony, which led to the suspension of his Arkansas law license. Despite this, Media Matters, the journalism watchdog organization that Brock founded in 2004, after his ideological conversion, still occasionally savages Isikoff and Taylor for the reporting they did.

The lesson for journalists covering 2016, Brock told the Little Rock crowd, is that Clinton-hating had nothing to do with what the Clintons did or did not do. If only it were that simple. The truth is that while conservative outlets like the Scaife-funded American Spectator and the Wall Street Journal editorial page were wildly dishonest in their effort to gin up scandals that would sink Bill Clintons presidency, and although Republicans should, to this day, be ashamed for having tried to impeach him, Clintons behavior wasnt irrelevant. He used the powers of his officeboth as governor and presidentto solicit sex and cover itup. He lied under oath and he urged others to lie. Thats far worse than sexting, which destroyed Anthony Weiners career.

Of course, Bill Clinton wont be on the ballot in 2016. But not everything Clinton-haters said about Hillary was wrong either. Yes, the Whitewater investigation into the Clintons' Arkansas real-estate investmentsto which Senate Republicans devoted 300 hours of committee hearings over 13 monthsturned out to be a colossal waste of time. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, despite being appointed to investigate Whitewater, barely even mentioned it in his final report. Yes, Travelgatein which the first lady influenced the decision to fire seven employees of the White House Travel Officereceived far more attention than it ever deserved. Yes, some of the attacks on her reeked of sexism. Some still do.

But even when it comes to Hillary, its untrue that Clinton-hating had nothing to do with what the Clintons did or did not do. As Carl Bernstein details in his generally positive biography, A Woman in Charge, Clintons us-versus-them approach to politics not only outraged her opponents but alienated some on her ideological side. Had she not overruled advisers David Gergen and George Stephanopoulos, who wanted to release Whitewater-related documents when the press initially requested them, Bernstein suggests, Attorney General Janet Reno might never have appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the matter, which ultimately led to Starr poking into Bill Clintons sex life.

Hillary Clintons suspicions of outsiders also undermined her effort on healthcare. Her health task force, Bernstein notes, operated with military-like secrecy unprecedented for a peacetime domestic program. Xeroxing documents under discussion was not allowed. At many task-force meetings, outsiders were forbidden from even bringing in pens. Controlling the process so tightly not only drove Clintons adversaries wild, it kept her from making the adjustments necessary to win over congressional moderates who might have supported reform.

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