talk about health care. do you remember whether he was for the big push up front from the start? no. it was an open discussion. i think in his heart that s what he thought was necessary. he knew that, given the economy and the politics of that moment, that the likelihood that we would have large democrat majorities in his second two years was very faint and so if we were going to deal with health care, we were going to have to deal with it in the first couple of years or it wouldn t get done. and that was the argument that he made. by summer of 2009, the polling reflected the water that he was taking on as a result of health care and i went into his office with polling books and i remember standing in the middle of the oval office and he listened respectfully and when he was done he said, yeah, but i just got back from green bay and i talked to a woman 36 years
very personal. listen in. talk about health care. do you remember whether he was for the big push up front from the start? no. it was an open discussion. i think in his heart that s what he felt was necessary. he knew that, given the economy and the politics of that moment, that the likelihood that we would have large democrat majorities in his second two years was very faint and so if we were going to deal with health care, we were going to have to deal with it in the first couple of years or it wouldn t get done. and that was the argument that he made. by summer of 2009, the polling reflected the water that he was taking on as a result of health care and i went into his office with polling books and i remember standing in the middle of the oval office and he listened respectfully and when he was done he said, yeah, but i just got back from green bay