General Discussion

and many of his advisors, including Robert Rubin, were very much for repealing it.

Here is BC defending his vote, even as late as 2015 with the hindsight of the crash behind him: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/250838-bill-clinton-defends-repeal-of-glass-steagall

I've got nothing in particular against Bill Clinton. I voted for him twice and quite like a lot of other things that he did. But this was a huge mistake on his part.