The United States provided less support for balancing work and family than any other wealthy nation, and I wanted to change that. The Republicans on Wall Street didn’t like the plan either, because I proposed to raise income taxes on the wealthiest Americ Then I played sax and danced with Hillary before 15,000 people at the Garden State Park racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where Most governors had the authority and every President since Ulysses Grant in 1869 had sought it.
That evening, Rubin and Summers came to the White House to see Leon Panetta and Sandy Berger, who was handling the issue for the National Security Council. All these problems were rooted in one fundamental fact: we had a crazy-quilt pattern of coverage in which insurance companies called the shots. About ten ministers came, including nationally known figures like Charles Swindoll, Adrian Rogers, and Max Lucado. New York was one of my best states; at the time my job approval was over 70 percent there and my personal approval was at 60 percent.
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