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It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
Sidney Blumenthal
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Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
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The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
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The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.
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The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.
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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
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Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
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It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
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The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
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We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
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Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
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It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.
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If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
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But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
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