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Symposium hosted by the Clinton Foundation and Miller Center. It is a little over one hour. Please welcome msnbc contributor jonathan k parks and the Economic Policy panel. [applause] thank you very much. As the voice of god said, i am john [indiscernible] from the washington post. When president clinton took office on january 20, 19 93, the American Economy was in bad shape. Unemployment is high. The deficit is high. The National Debt was climbing even higher. The man who campaigned on cutting the deficit in half had a seemingly impossible task. The longest economic expansion in u. S. History a narrowing of the income inequality gap in the first Budget Surplus in generations. How did it happen . How did the budget deal of 1993 get done or the 1997 budget deal that balance the budget and secured these historic surpluses . How did the Child Health Insurance program that helped the poor and workingclass families and untold millions fold into the middle class and get done . Gene sperling

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