, New York. mpassion of the KGB”; that I wanted “the largest tax increase in history”; and that he would set a better “moral tone” as President than I would. In an increasingly interdependent world, we should work this way whenever we can. We had never said whether we would or wouldn’t come to the defense of Taiwan if it were attacked.
ed not only concrete achievements but also the sense of possibility and community I wanted America to embody. Of course it didn’t work, and the deficits exploded throughout the recovery of the 1980s. 5 percent unemployment rate was misleading; it was 3. They were a real danger; in the Gulf War twenty-eight of our soldiers had been killed by an Iraqi Scud missile.
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