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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.

Dick Gephardt

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Dick Gephardt
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 31
Former Majority Leader
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St. Louis
Missouri
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