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A seat at the table. >> he wanted the very groups that had killed health care reform in the past inside the room now. in march, 2009, he brought them all to the white house. >> we kept every one of those but one at the table. >> all of the groups here need to stay involved. >> they all made demands. obama made deals. >> none of these groups are doing this out of the goodness of their heart, they're negotiating, they want to best deal possible. >> he compromised on the thing that was most sacred to him. the individual mandate that every citizen buy health care. the idealistic candidate had beco...

>> yes, we will. >> freedom. >> and he made more concessions, giving up the public option, which would have created a government insurance program that would have competed with private companies. >> we ended up having to wrestle this thing to the ground in a way that was less than ideal from my perspective. >> finally, march 21, 2010. >> on this vote, the ayes are 219, the nays are 212. the motion to concur in the senate amendment is adopted. >> for decades, they've been trying to do it. it has now been done. >> without a single republican vote, the bill passed. the white house celebrated. >> ...

Somehow he needed to reach out. >> just one golf game away from singing kumbayah. give me a break. >> desperate, obama changed gears. first, he apologized to the country. >> i take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the american people. >> then he barnstormed for the bill. across america and in congress. >> i may not be the first president to take up the cause of health care reform. i am determined to be the last. >> yes, we will. >> freedom. >> yes, we will. >> freedom. >> and he made more concessions, giving up the public option, which would have created a government...

>> we ended up having to wrestle this thing to the ground in a way that was less than ideal from my perspective. >> finally, march 21, 2010. >> on this vote, the ayes are 219, the nays are 212. the motion to concur in the senate amendment is adopted. >> for decades, they've been trying to do it. it has now been done. >> without a single republican vote, the bill passed. the white house celebrated. >> i asked the president, how does this night compare to election night? he said, there's no comparison. election night was all about getting to tonight. this is why we work so hard. >> days later wh...

Way that was less-than-ideal from my perspective. >> finally, march 21, 2010. >> on this vote, the yeas are 219, the nays are 212. the motion to concur in the senate amendment is adopted. >> for decades they've been trying to do it, it's now been done. >> without a single republican vote, the bill passed. the white house celebrated. >> i asked the president how does this night compare to election night? he said, there's no comparison. election night was all about getting to tonight. this is why we worked so hard. >> days later when president obama arrived in the east room to sign the bill into...