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Clinton's call for a "New Covenant" was seen as saying that the 12 previous years under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush represented a breaking of the traditional relationship between the American people and their government, presumably because of the close relationship between leaders in those Administrations and "big business" interests, as opposed to traditional Democratic consituencies such as labor unions, womens' groups, and minority group members. Clinton apparently hoped that this term would come to be used to describe the policies adopted by his Administration. The term had distinctly religious, specifically Judeo-Christian connotations. Perhaps at least in part for this reason, it was never widely adopted by the mass media or the American public at large, and thusly is not as widely associated with Clinton and his politcies as is the Square Deal with Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal with Franklin Roosevelt, the Fair DealIn United States history, the Fair Deal was the policy of social improvement of U. President Harry S. Truman, outlined in his 1949 State of the Union Address to Congress on January 5, 1949. In his address, he proposed an ambitious social and economic prog with Harry S Truman, the New FrontierThe term New Frontier was used by John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in 1960 as the Democratic nominee, and was used as a label for his administration's domestic program. We stand at the edge of a New Frontier the frontier of unfulfilled hopes and d with John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy ( May 29, 1917 November 22, 1963), often referred to as Jack Kennedy or JFK was the 35th ( 1961 1963) President of the United States. He was the youngest ever to be elected president and the youngest president ever to die in office, or the Great SocietySocial Justice The Great Society was a series of domestic initiatives announced in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson at Ann Arbor, Michigan. A main focus of these social reforms to "end to poverty and racial injustice" was the Voting Rights Act of 1965. with Lyndon Johnson. An alternate explanation is that due to Clinton's pragmatismPragmatism is a school of philosophy originating in United States in the late 1800s. Pragmatism is characterized by the insistence on consequences, utility and practicality as vital components of truth. Pragmatism objects to the view that human concepts a, many saw his policies as less than a cohesive whole and more of a series of individual reactions to individual events and situations, rather than part of a vast overall plan.