How Biden's firm line with Republicans draws on lesson of Obama's mistakes

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

11. I read somewhere

Where during the health care debates Obama was giving Grassley everything he wanted, but Grassley still continued to not support the bill.

Edit - I found the article

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-admits-he-was-overconfident-about-health-care-reform-in-upcoming-white-house-memoir-2020-10-26

So he details how his administration tried wooing two moderate Republicans to its side. They included Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, whom Obama describes as having a “long, hangdog face and throaty Midwestern drawl.” Grassley would “hem and haw about this or that problem he had with the bill without ever telling us what exactly it would take to get him to yes,” the former president writes.