Dole and Gingrich had come through, in exchange for a few billion dollars of extra spending that even the Pentagon said was unnecessary. Just two weeks earlier, I had signed legislation that improved the farm credit system, to make more loans available to farmers at lower interest rates. transportation assistance the mother gets to travel to and from her minimum-wage job?” “That’s right,” I said. Bentsen and Panetta wanted as much deficit reduction as we could pass in Congress, an amount less than Gore and Rivlin advocated, but still a lot.
The other G-7 member with a big interest in the issue was Japan. I was there for the rest of the night in agonizing pain. ng of innocent people, the illegal leaking, the pursuit of a bogus, politically motivated suit—“but I was d It was more than enough to push all the doubts about me into the recesses of public consciousness, but, as I well knew, not enough to erase them.
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