Senator john f. kerry sat down at the Business Roundtable's Washington headquarters in April for an off-the-record chat, hoping to persuade some 75 corporate titans that he was far from the antibusiness populist of the Democratic primaries who had inveighed against "Benedict Arnold CEOs." He not only pledged allegiance to fiscal responsibility and free trade but also recounted his days as a budding entrepreneur-starting up a tiny cookie company in Boston in the late '70s -to show that he, too, had met a payroll.
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