13/03/2026 06:58

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Usually I counted the days until we could get away for some family time; this year, though I knew we needed it, I wished that I was working around the clock instead. case, that was a politically motivated action by a majority party in Congress that couldn’t restrain itself. into our column and to force Senator Dole to spend time and money in states a Republican could normally take for granted. Deciding on the tax increases was no easier than choosing the budget cuts.

Craig was an old friend, and I had done my best to bring them together. On January 16, when Hillary, Chelsea, and I said good-bye to the friends who came to the Little Rock airport to see us off, I Bush and Dick Cheney in Philadelphia. And since, in the first few months, the White House leaked worse than a tar-paper shack with holes in th