because he was real. and because he was a person of his word. and, you know, in politics that s all it is. i have to tell you a story. i don t know how much time we have, it will take me a minute. we were at the end of putting together obamacare, and it was very late at night and it looked like it was a lost cause because abortion came up as an issue. and it had to do with the fact that the exchanges were offering abortion coverage because that s the law, and people who don t want a woman s right to choose tried to take that out, and, of course, there was a huge standoff. harry calls me, it s snowing out. i find my staff, i get there, and harry becomes the shuttle diplomat between me and the pro-choice groups and ben nelson, who was a colleague on the other side of this