A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Carl Bernstein: on Budget & Economy

Bill Clinton: First modern Pres.to use fiscal discipline to balance budget

Clinton alone among contemporary presidents grasped the possibilities of the global economy, and what the explosive power of America’s technical invention & new industries could do for the domestic economy. He became the first modern president to actually exercise, as opposed to merely talk about, the fiscal discipline necessary to cut and even balance the federal budget.