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This class included graduates from our Cold War adversaries Russia and Bulgaria. With the most Democratic Congress in decades, Lyndon Johnson got Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor, but didn’t even try to insure the rest of those without coverage. The world economy was dragging, with growth in Europe the slowest in more than a decade, and in Japan the slowest in nearly two decades. plan and of the four other leading proposals in Congress, the Clinton plan is the first choice of everyone in the room.

There had been a whole series of missteps on Louis Freeh’s watch: botched reports from the FBI forensic labora Besides, as I told Lehrer, I was more focused on what I could accomplish in my last year than on what the future might think of me. I had worked like a dog for two years. Presidents depend on the Secret Service to protect them, and to protect their confidences.