With its white wainscoting and nautical paraphernalia, the room affects the look of some old dockside haunt.

NEWYORKER: Littleneck

My sense is that for social conservatives, there's still some skepticism, but the line the White House took with these worriers was, look, there's only a little more than a year left in this administration, give us a break.

NPR: White House Took Care in Vetting Mukasey

It was more than a year ago that some of these same CEOs came to the White House for one of the first meetings about what this reform would look like.

WHITEHOUSE: Implementing the Affordable Care Act