I think maybe when you were out of the room briefly, I said, in some sense, we backed into the proposal about the Vice President being the lead for the Federal Government, because all the alternatives that we considered didn't seem strong enough.
Lieberman discusses the rationale behind the Vice President's leadership role in government.
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