41.   But now a Democratic president can use the line-item veto to work his will on every bill that comes out of the Republican-controlled Congress.

42.   But on the other two occasions there was a Democratic president in the White House ready to use his veto pen had the Senate failed to block the bill.

43.   But more importantly, they are looking to set the stage for the first two-term victory of a Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

44.   But some Republicans who originally liked the idea have now turned cool on the realization that it empowers a Democratic president.

45.   But the appointment of Starr, an active Republican, to investigate a Democratic president has been steeped in controversy from the beginning.

46.   But the Democratic president also delivered a few digs of his own.

47.   But the Democratic president, Harry Truman, was furious.

48.   But the truth is that, if elected, he would build on foundations laid by earlier Democratic presidents.

49.   But then the matter was laid aside, partly because of differences among Republicans but mostly because they were reluctant to give such new authority to a Democratic president.

50.   But the fact that a freshly reelected Democratic president was in the position of seeking concessions underlined the weakness of Clinton.