Clinton Might Give Up Some Executive Authority

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If elected president in 2008, Senator Clinton would consider giving up some of the executive powers that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have assumed since taking office, she said.

In an interview published yesterday in Guardian America, a Web site run by the London-based Guardian newspaper, Mrs. Clinton denounced the Bush administration’s push to concentrate more power in the White House as a “power grab” not supported by the Constitution.

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