Progress, Not Perfection

For nearly one hundred years, Presidents have struggled with the complicated politics of health care reform and universal coverage.

Theodore Roosevelt (1912): "The Square Deal"	Franklin Roosevelt (1935): "The New Deal"
Harry Truman (1948): "The Fair Deal"	Lyndon Johnson (1964): "The Great Society"
Richard Nixon (1974): No Deal (Watergate)	Bill Clinton (1993): No Deal (Harry & Louise)
Barack Obama (2010): Done Deal... "I promised Teddy." There's no doubt he meant the late Senator Kennedy, but it could also apply to the first President Roosevelt, first to champion the cause.