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Brain Wars: Jose Barco
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Despite brain trauma, he pestered his doctors to declare him fit for duty
FRONTLINE explores and illuminates the critical issues of our times - from business and health to social issues, politics and war.
Video description: Obama's former chief of staff talks about the difficulties of negotiating the nation's fiscal problems with a divided GOP. "To some degree, I guess ... I underestimated that separation between Boehner and much of the caucus that he was trying to control," he tells FRONTLINE producer Jim Gilmore.
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