The premise behind the initiative, Clinton explains, is not just to improve basic cooking tools.

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This explains why Mr Clinton never made a convincing case for fast-track trade-negotiating authority, which Congress consequently blocked.

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But this weirdness can work both ways, as Clinton Texas Campaign Chairman Gary Morrow explains.

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