Clinton in 1999: Aide ‘Says That Every Time I Mention Gays, My Numbers Go Down’

Clinton in 1999: Aide ‘Says That Every Time I Mention Gays, My Numbers Go Down’: On Jan. 11, 1999 — a little more than a week before Bill Clinton was set to deliver the last State of the Union Address of the 20th century — he huddled in Oval Office with a group of advisers and worried. “Mark always says...