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22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
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.
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
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.
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.
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%.
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
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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