id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2873 Bill Clinton - Wikipedia .html text/html 29544 3865 71 Formally organized as the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the New Democrats argued that in light of President Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in 1984, the Democratic Party needed to adopt a more centrist political stance in order to succeed at the national level.[49][50] Clinton delivered the Democratic response to Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.[11] The veteran gay rights and gay marriage activist Evan Wolfson has called these claims "historic revisionism".[131] In a July 2, 2011, editorial The New York Times opined, "The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments."[133] Ultimately, in United States v. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2873.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2873.txt