The Nation : Clinton Forgoes Campaign

Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton announced that he would not run for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, ending months of speculation by political observers and Clinton’s potential Democratic rivals. Clinton, 40, a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate who is serving his fourth term as Arkansas governor, issued a press release in Little Rock saying that he and his wife, Hillary, a lawyer, want to spend more time with their daughter. He also said he did not want to launch a new campaign after having gone through 15 in the last 13 years. “I hope I will have another opportunity to seek the presidency when I can do it and be faithful to my family, my state and my sense of what is right,” he said.