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The 1934 Dinner Party That May Have Helped Save Obamacare

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FDR's labor secretary feared the court would reject Social Security—until a justice told her over dinner that framing it as a tax could save it.

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Could a 1934 Washington dinner party hold the key to Chief Justice John Roberts’ landmark decision on the Affordable Care Act?

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In late 1934, President Franklin D.

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