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"A tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided House of Representatives: Winning it required the president to make a lot of unsavory deals that had nothing to do with the big issue." A little shrug. "I wouldn't know anything about that," Clinton said. His audience laughed. President Abraham Lincoln's struggle to abolish slavery "reminds us that enduring progress is forged in a cauldron of both principle and compromise," Clinton went on. This film "shows us how he did it, and gives us hope that we can do it again."
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