ABSTRACT
Foreign policy, as expected, was not much of a campaign issue in 1996. Bob Dole criticized the administration's foreign policy as “incoherent and vacillating,” and the Clinton camp parried that criticism by emphasizing the candidates' common ground on major foreign policy issues. Still, there was the president, on the eve of the first debate, earnestly refereeing negotiations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Yasir Arafat at the White House. It mattered little that no agreement was reached; the point for Bill Clinton was to look presidential.
