CBS Evening News - 1999-11-11
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[0:00] or miss it.
[0:01] >> Inside Barbara Strian's home, plus
[0:03] Regents on Entertainment Tonight.
[0:07] >> On Veterans Day, battles over teachers
[0:10] and social security. President Clinton
[0:12] and the Republican Congress split the
[0:14] difference on schools, but fight on over
[0:17] social security. Big money corporate
[0:19] jets carry presidential candidates. Do
[0:22] these wings come with strings? The Mega
[0:25] Banks Revenge, ATMs for members only,
[0:29] and your medicine of the next century on
[0:31] the countdown to 2000.
[0:36] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:39] [music]
[0:40] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:43] headquarters in New York.
[0:45] >> Good evening. It's a significant
[0:47] breakthrough, but not a done deal on the
[0:49] six weeks overdue US federal budget.
[0:52] President Clinton and Republican
[0:53] congressional leaders split the
[0:55] difference on one of the president's
[0:56] main agenda priorities. Money to hire a
[0:59] 100,000 new teachers nationwide. But now
[1:02] comes the hard part. The last loose ends
[1:05] could be the toughest to tie up. As CBS
[1:08] News chief White House correspondent
[1:09] John Roberts reports.
[1:12] >> Free.
[1:14] >> Even as he paid tribute to America's
[1:16] fallen heroes of war, the president was
[1:18] fighting the budget battle. He urged
[1:21] Congress to come up with the money to
[1:22] fund his foreign policy agenda. From
[1:24] nuclear disarmament in Russia to aid for
[1:27] fledgling democracies.
[1:29] >> But all of you know better than most
[1:31] that freedom is not free. And all of you
[1:35] know far better than most that the
[1:38] costliest peace is far cheaper than the
[1:42] cheapest war. With few exceptions, the
[1:45] president has been able to declare
[1:47] vic