Administration, it is already manufacturing tens of millions of doses of six vaccines. And by the end of the year there will be tens of millions of doses of these vaccines already manufactured, ready to distribute. First, of course, to the priority individuals, those who are most vulnerable, Health Care Workers and others. Then according to the administration, they expect to be able to produce 300 million to 700 million doses of vaccines by march or april of next year. That is unprecedented. When i was a kid, we were terrified by polio. I had classmates who were in an iron lung and parents who were worried their children might be just as well. It took ten years to get a polio vaccine and polio is now eradicated. Most of the vaccines that our children take before they go to school, like mumps, measles, chicken pox, you have to take these vaccines, all 50 states and the district of columbia before you go to school. Most of them took ten years to develop. If the optimism of the administra
Ago that i was prepared to sit down with the leadership and work out a bill. That was rejected. I do not think it comes as any surprise to anyone in the media or the American People that health care for this year is behind us. It is a matter of time. And there mustve been for five members who had lastminute bills that they wouldve liked to have worked on these last few much but there is just not time to do that. I do not think any plan that anyone tries to cobble together i think the majority leader realize that can plus, we only have 10 days before adjournment. I think the democrats have been looking at numbers around the country. Some are inches to get home. And suddenly reelection has surpassed any other party some are anxious to get home. I think there may be some who are certainly disappointed with the health care debate. I think a lot went right in the past year. I know there has been a lot of handwringing in the liberal press and the white house of what went wrong. Right for a c
Bob dole i have a written statement which should be available any time, but i listened to the majority leader and i think he announced what , many of us have known for some time. I guess starting back when congressman gephardt and senator mitchell went down to the white house several weeks ago to tell him that their plan was dead, so i dont know what happened then. The democrats didnt have the votes for it. I know that senator mitchell of course blames republicans for everything except for the plane that crashed into the white house, and that may come yet. But in any event, ive said weeks ago that i was prepared to sit down with the leadership, the four leaders, and work out as a bill, and that was rejected. So i dont think it comes to any surprise to anybody in the media or the American People that health care for this year is behind us. Its a matter of time. And there must have been four or five members who had last minute bills that they would like to work on in those last few days,
Bob dole i have a written statement which should be available any time, but i listened to the majority leader and i think he announced what , many of us have known for some time. I guess starting back when congressman gephardt and senator mitchell went down to the white house several weeks ago to tell him that their plan was dead, so i dont know what happened then. The democrats didnt have the votes for it. I know that senator mitchell of course blames republicans for everything except for the plane that crashed into the white house, and that may come yet. But in any event, ive said weeks ago that i was prepared to sit down with the leadership, the four leaders, and work out as a bill, and that was rejected. So i dont think it comes to any surprise to anybody in the media or the American People that health care for this year is behind us. Its a matter of time. And there must have been four or five members who had last minute bills that they would like to work on in those last few days,
As i leave the presidency. To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every american. And leaving it, i do so with this prayer. May gods grace be with you in all the days ahead. More now on the 40th anniversary of president nixons resignation. With a recent discussion hosted by the Washington Post. It includes journalist bob woodward, carl bernstein, Elizabeth Drew and ruth marcus talking about the scandal that led to president nixon stepping down and the white house tapes that provide further insight into his presidency. This is two hours. Welcome, everybody. My name is marty baron, executive editor of the Washington Post. It is a real pleasure to welcome you here tonight. You can consider yourself all very special because when the invitation went out for this event it was sold out within a day. And ever since, folks here at the post have been telling people that theres no more room. And you can see that from the attendance here and th