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Branch, who won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1988 for his series “America in the King Years,” spoke about “The Clinton Tapes,” his recently released book chronicling his time as the historian and confidant of President Bill Clinton...
Efforts to enact sweeping health care reform date back to the presidency of Harry Truman, and attempts have been made under presidents ranging from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, whose disastrous failure to enact reform in 1993 resulted in the Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four decades. The House’s passage of health insurance reform thus marks the farthest that the reform effort has ever come, for which we congratulate Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her pragmatism and extraordinary political acumen...
...didn't much matter what Bill Clinton had to say to Senate Democrats when he made his unusual appearance at their weekly caucus lunch Nov. 10 on Capitol Hill. Yes, he talked policy and economic imperatives and all that. But the former President was really there, at Senate majority leader Harry Reid's invitation, as the ghost of 1994 - a reminder of what happened the last time lawmakers took up the cause of health care reform and didn't finish the job. That failure not only dealt a near crippling blow to a young Democratic presidency but also cost...
...Barack Obama's top domestic priority, and time is his enemy. While Reid still says passage of a final bill is possible by the end of the year, that is looking more and more doubtful. Speaking from his experience of watching the slow death of his health care bill, Clinton told the Senators they must get one to Obama's desk by the State of the Union address in January at the latest, according to one participant, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. (See 10 players in health care reform...
...coming bumps, a health-reform bill is starting to become inevitable, if only because of the consequences of falling short. Obama's presidency, even more than Clinton's, may depend on the Democrats' ability to deliver on his biggest domestic priority. And if anyone needed a reminder why, there could hardly have been a more poignant one than the appearance of the Ghost of Failures Past...