Bush Channels Bill

The new North Korea deal is surprisingly Clintonian.

By Fred Kaplan
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007, at 5:58 PM ET

President George W. Bush finally got a nuclear deal with North Korea because he finally started negotiating like Bill Clinton.

A constant mantra for the past dozen years—chanted by Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on several occasions—is that the Agreed Framework, which the Clinton administration signed with North Korea in 1994, was a naive and disastrous failure.