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Chris Good - Chris Good is a political reporter for ABC News. He was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic and a reporter for The Hill.

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At Big Moment, President Obama Goes Small

By Chris Good

Jul 23 2009, 9:34 AM ET Comment

President Barack Obama came alive about 50 minutes into Wednesday night's news conference - when somebody finally changed the subject.

The president's remarks on his chosen subject, health care, were cautious and choreographed, hemmed in on one side by the calculations of his professional wordsmiths, on the other by the delicacy of negotiations with two houses of Congress.

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