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   >I may be mistaken but if Clinton had four and Johnson had one ...   
      
   It is very difficult to pin down the deficit to a clear value.  *I*   
   believe that there were two years in the late '90s where the US had no   
   deficit; however, your numbers may be slightly different, and I'll let   
   you say four years if that brings you happiness.  Let's put it this   
   way, no *other* administration in the past 50 years even came close to   
   a balanced budget.  My own opinion is that Clinton just got lucky and   
   presided over a booming economy.  (I didn't include LBJ as he was over   
   50 years ago.)   
      
   I'll give Jimmy Carter credit for *trying* to balance the budget.  He   
   vetoed H.R. 742 (to extend the public debt limit).  His own party   
   overrode his veto, then they mounted a brutal primary challenge by   
   Edward Kennedy leading to his defeat by Reagan in '80.   
      
   The reason I'd credit Carter more than Clinton is because it just   
   *happened* during Clinton's administration; he didn't have to take any   
   heat for it.   
      
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