Clinton let Hillary lead the charge on health reform and then drifted away from the issue. He sauntered along with Congress on welfare reform and budget balancing. He let Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen push the dollar down so U.S. exports would go up and when that didn't work, he brought in Robert Rubin to push the dollar back up. And that was a big factor in getting Clinton re-elected in November 1996. The m.o. worked because the American people, above everything else, want peace and prosperity.
Peace is good for prosperity and prosperity is the best peace-maker.
Worldwide the two together mean less violence and war. And at home if the young have money in their pockets, they'll rethink any knee-jerk temptation towards violence. The Asian financial crises started spreading worldwide. The two embassy bombings in Africa came as tensions were growing in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Indonesia. And suddenly the Lewinsky affair was shaking the Oval Office, the political center of the entire world.