Jonathan Alter: Health Care Puts Obama in FDR’s League

Posted on May 26, 2010

White House / Pete Souza

Newsweek senior editor and columnist Jonathan Alter talks about his new book, “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” and why “Just by getting health care through ... [Barack Obama is] now standing alone with Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson in terms of domestic achievement.”

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