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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

"REGO" - AL GORE'S REINVENTING GOVERNMENT 1993

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It was clunky, and a little Office Space-like. And it cut federal jobs. But then-Vice President Al Gore's "REGO" program was different in many ways from "DOGE" -The 1993 program was bipartisan, considered [cuts were identified, then made, in that order. And it was slow, and generated little protest. It did generate tension in the Clinton White House, which we get into. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.7

Rigo, or reinventing government, Stephanopla, said, was to Gore what health care was to Hillary,

0:26.8

a worthy goal that grew out of control, another White House within a White House.

0:32.9

That you, as federal workers, know how to change the government so that it works much, much better,

0:40.3

and costs a whole lot less.

0:43.3

... First thing I want to say is I'm going to discuss a topic today and it's going to appear

1:08.2

like I'm comparing something. When I'm not, I'm comparing and

1:12.2

contrasting something. And I think often in history, anytime I do a topic, there'll be this

1:16.9

kind of inherent. You're comparing this to that. You're saying that this is the same as that.

1:22.8

And that's not necessarily what I'm doing. As a person that does a show about history and politics,

1:28.8

it might be tempting to say that, you know, history repeats itself. And we have to learn from the

1:34.5

past. And we do have to learn from the past. But history doesn't really repeat itself.

1:39.4

This is something that Ken Burns has made clear in interviews, and I agree with. History almost never

1:46.3

repeats itself, but you can use the Mark Twain quote, which is, you know, history doesn't

1:51.6

repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Or I prefer the Eduardo Galliano quote, which is history

2:00.0

never says goodbye. It just says, see you later. That

2:04.6

themes and different things reappear into those points of comparison and contrast. But if you're

2:09.9

not doing both, if you're just saying, this is like that, you're going to look silly. And I don't

2:15.6

think you can ignore Al Gore's reinventing government from the

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