CSPAN3 Budget And Working With Congress June 7, 2014
Difficulties we have today in getting things done. I am a great believer that nothing gets done unless president s lead. [applause] i had the great privilege to work for a president that 10 times a day reminded the chief of staff that things had to get done. To set the stage for this discussion, let me remind you that in 19891990, the country was having financial problems. It was drifting into recession. It had huge deficits. The Financial Community knew that the United States needed a multiyear budget agreement and it was pretty clear that this was going to be a strong, tough, hard battle bet...