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Under the budget rules, the bill would have forced large cuts in education, health care, and environmental protection. I pointed out to the reporters who were along that all our guns were protected by the crime bill and that we I hated to leave, knowing it was the last time I’d ever see my father-in-law. It would have been unthinkable not long before.

I then noted that we’d had some pretty good non-veteran Presidents, including FDR, Wilson, and Lincoln, who opposed the Mexican War. Then came the zinger. The New Right Republicans wanted an America in which wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of the “right” people, who main My budget decision was supported by Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, most of the economic team, the Dem