Learning the right lessons from Clinton's Medicare confrontaiton with Newt - Washington Post

Bill Clinton said:

"I believe we have a duty to care for our parents so that they can live their lives in dignity. That duty includes securing Medicare.” He also warned that the GOP’s budget “violates our values.”And when Clinton vetoed the GOP proposal, he held up Johson’s pen. “Three decades ago, this pen you see here was used to honor our values when President Johnson used it to sign Medicare into law,” Clinton said, adding: “I am using this pen to preserve our commitment to our parents.”Contemporaneous press accounts indicate that it was only after Clinton adopted this strategy of fighting that he began to rise in the polls.

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