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I Filed A Brief As A Friend Of The Court In The U. Of Michigan To Keep Affirmative Action At The U. Of Michigan, Which I Attended The Law School. And I Was One Of The Original Sponsors Of Making The Martin Luther King Birthday A Federal Holiday.

I Grew Up In The '50s And '60s When Jack Kennedy Was President. We Would Watch Him On Television. And Our Teachers Always Talked About The Good Things Public Servants Could Do. I Thought Maybe That's Something I Should Do. So When I Got Out Of Law School, My Wife, Jane, And I Became Precinct Captains.

I Think In Some Cases Busing Did Improve The Situation In Some Areas; In Some Cases It Didn't. We Had Busing In St. Louis, And It Has Been Ended And We Are Using Other Methods Of Trying To Better Integrate The Schools.

I Led The Fight For The Clinton Health Care Plan In 1994. We Failed. I Learned From That Experience. What I Learned Is You Can't Pass A Complicated Government-run Plan.

Why Would We Want To Keep A Tax Cut That's Failed? Why Would We Not Want To Go Back To The Clinton Tax Code? And Why Would We Not Want To Help Every Family More With A Health-care Plan Like Mine? Let's Help Average People. Let's Be Democrats.