Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
