embargo on Cuba and tried to talk me out of it. Whatever Freeh’s motives, the behavior of the FBI toward the White House was just one more example of how crazy Washington had become. the President should have acknowledged that his error was in saying “Read my lips” in the first place. Even authoritarian governments are not immune to popular opinion and powerful interest groups.
With input from Hillary and Al Gore, I had picked the participating clergy, the singers, and the music. She was essentially finishing Mulroney’s long run at the helm, with the polls showing a rising tide of support for the opposition leader, Jean Chrétien. I wanted to bring together not only the tax and budget functions of Treasury and the OMB, but also the work of the Commerce Department, the Office of the U. ne, with the blessing of Warren Christopher and the help of Dick Holbrooke, an investment banker and veteran foreign policy h
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