In June, against the backdrop of the presidential campaign, I focused on two issues, education and the disturbing rash of black church burnings then sweeping the country. It couldn’t have come at a better time. Georgetown classmate Brian Greenspun, the president and editor of theLas Vegas Sun, who felt passionately about the issue. Her staff had arranged for us to dress up like James and Dolley Madison.
On April 17, even theNew York Times couldn’t take it any longer. She even got a laugh from the press corps when she acknowledged that her belief in a “zone of privacy” might have made her less responsive ” Then Miyazawa and I got together over a traditional Japanese meal at the Hotel Okura to see if we could resolve the remaining differences. I saved taxes for last, recommending that we increase the top income tax rate from 31 to 36 percent on
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