In terms of the third world, I support the Baker plan.

The Baker Plan was not much of anything new, and it certainly wasn't going to solve the problem.

Administration officials and financial experts have said they expect the "Baker plan," as it is known, to be substantially modified.

The Baker plan has not stopped the debt crisis from snowballing.

Despite the Baker plan, banks have been lending less money to debtor nations.

But the additional lending that the Baker Plan supported, he said, had a cost.

"We'll call the first one the Baker plan," the President teased.

No, because we would then have to vote on Amendment 17, which itself relates essentially to the Baker plan.

With hindsight, the Baker plan looks more like hubris than deceit.

And the Baker Plan has come and gone as a topic of serious conversation in two short years.

In terms of the third world, I support the Baker plan.

The Baker Plan was not much of anything new, and it certainly wasn't going to solve the problem.

Administration officials and financial experts have said they expect the "Baker plan," as it is known, to be substantially modified.

The Baker plan has not stopped the debt crisis from snowballing.

Despite the Baker plan, banks have been lending less money to debtor nations.

But the additional lending that the Baker Plan supported, he said, had a cost.

"We'll call the first one the Baker plan," the President teased.

No, because we would then have to vote on Amendment 17, which itself relates essentially to the Baker plan.

With hindsight, the Baker plan looks more like hubris than deceit.

And the Baker Plan has come and gone as a topic of serious conversation in two short years.