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Deficit reduction deal, which had more tax increases for the economic boom and the budget surpluses of the late 1990s. that was delayed gratification. donald trump does the opposite. >> the footnote here is that i worked on the clinton deficit reduction package but not the bush deficit reduction package. thank you very much for joining us. if you follow john harwood and bruce bartlett on twitter, you will know everything i know about public finance and economics. coming up, when we come back, something you have never seen before on this program. coming up next. ♪ ♪ applebee's bigger bold...

President trump is somebody who thinks about what's going to be good or bad for him in the next five to ten minutes. we saw a report in the last 24 hours that when he was shown signs that the deficit was going to be ballooning he said, well, i'm not going to be around then. george h.w. bush took the opposite approach. he broke his pledge. he accepted those tax increases in that spending deal. for all i know, lawrence, you might have been part of negotiating that deal. i'm not 100% sure, but he did not get credit for that. that was not something that produced gratification politically for him. ...