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George Mitchell was sympathetic for another reason: If health-care reform were introduced as a separate Ever since he said that, I had thought of all the blood that had been shed, all the energy wasted, by people obsessed with keeping us divided over that one-tenth of a percent. I was a white Southern Baptist who was proud of my roots and confirmed in my faith. On July 19, after intense consultations with both proponents and critics of the policy, I offered my response to theAd

Hillary and I went to Jamaica, New York, to meet with the victims’ families, and I announced new measures to increase air travel security. I got a cup of coffee and met a fifty-nine-year-old man who told me he’d lost his job and everything he had in the recession. There’ll be some bad days. It was an unnecessary red flag to my opponents in Congress.