bill clinton resigns from the dlc and went in and became a candidate. and let me give you three our four days you might not compo about leading up to the election that were significant. one is july 14, 1987. that was the day clinton decided not to run in 1988. he might have been elected had he ran but he probably would have been pulled down by his party and certainly not have worked with the dlc. i was in mississippi giving a speech and supposed to meet with the former governor bill winner that day and he canceled because he was going to little rock to launch the campaign. i was surprised when i landed in cincinnati to have press calls asking why clinton dropped out chatty best thing that happened to me, the dlc and probably him. the second was in december of 1990, it wasn't clear if sam nun or bill clinton would be the democratic candidate. most people thought sam could be the candidate. he was clinton's domestic policy advisor and wrote a letter suggesting a clipon-nun ticket. both liked it but both wanted to be on the top of the ticket. we sat down i

to ask a young governor to become chairman of the dlc. i told him i had deal for him.f he would become chairman of the dlc we would pay for his travel around the country, shapen agenda that i fought a democrat could win the white house on and that he would be president some day and we would both be important. bill clinton took that kill. we immediately embarked on a foreparts strategy. and if you think about whether republicans are today you might want to think about this kind of strategy. the first -- >> i don't take strategic it buys from the opposition. [laughter] >> i know what to give it to the opposition, but it's good for the country. first i call it reality therapy. we told it like it was. you know, when you lose elections people in your party say, you know, it's because they had a good candid and ours was terrible. it was because they had better media coming in no, all of a sudden we will find a can visit and sweep to victory. but when you constantly loose by over 40 states it is not just because one candidate was bad. we lost with three different candid it's.

that is a big deal because he may have been elected but the survey would not have worked with the dlc. he decided that day he would not run. i was in mississippi giving a speech was supposed to meet with the former governor and he canceled because he was going to little rock to once the clinton campaign's one was surprised when did in cincinnati press calls for asking why clinton dropped out the best thing that ever happened to make and probably to him the second to was december 1980 it is not clear if horse who would be the candidate most people thought sam nunn would be the candidate. bruce was vice president of chief of staff and also wrote a memo suggesting to clinton that they do a ticket and they both thought they had to be on the top. but what happened? we sat down and the entire room and decided to the woods bin to five months to shape the agenda but then hast to me that chair realistic. if anything happened on the way to the ranch. but clinton made well got all of his legislative staff done in four days and as a result his leading the opposition of the gulf war sam nunn took