Word: reed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over, even as he kept one eye on a golf tournament on television. Magaziner's numbers were appealing, but Wiener wouldn't budge. At that point, Clinton came alive not in anger but in frustration. "Goddammit," he said, "now I know why no President has ever fixed this problem." Reed, who had been listening quietly, finally suggested a third way. Everything on a chart listing budget changes, Reed noted, had to fall under a column labeled SAVINGS or a column marked INVESTMENTS. If Magaziner and Wiener couldn't decide whether health-care reform saved money or cost money...
...early January, Reed took the finished draft to Manchester, New Hampshire, where Clinton and his wife were campaigning. The three spent a Saturday night in the Clintons' cramped hotel room going over the plan. Dining on takeout Greek food, Clinton sat on a bed poring over Reed's draft while Hillary paced | the room suggesting changes. The session lasted several hours until the three were satisfied. The Clintons went to a late movie; Reed went to look for a printer. Two days later, Clinton released his "National Health Insurance Reform to Cut Costs and Cover Everybody." He claimed he could...
...result, Clinton launched one more conference call with his top health-care advisers on June 22. From the Governor's mansion in Little Rock, he reached Magaziner at a miniature-golf course near his home in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was relaxing with his children. He located Bruce Reed at Georgetown University Hospital, where his own health-care bill was rising while his wife was undergoing tests for a stomach ailment. He found Joshua Wiener, a Brookings Institution fellow, clipping hedges at his home in Washington. Wiener grabbed some of his kids' purple-dinosaur scratch paper...
...most of the bright spots on the fall schedule can be traced to stars. Family Album (CBS) might be dismissed as just another shrill family sitcom were it not for Peter Scolari (Newhart) and Pamela Reed (Tanner '88), playing a couple who move their family back East to be closer to their aging parents. Everyone on the show is wired, from a TV-mesmerized son ("Joan Lunden's hair! What is she thinking?") to a splenetic, cigar-smoking grandfather ("I don't get it. You have your third heart attack, and everybody panics"). In the midst of this mayhem, Reed...
...Ralph Reed works to give the religious right a gentler face...