ategorizing them in order of their importance, with the A group being the most important, the B group Another GOP proposal that met stiff resistance was its move to eliminate the Department of Education, which, like the school lunch program, had always enjoyed strong bipartisan support. Bush and I got one minute to respond. During the visit he promised to push Sinn Fein to make concrete positive decisions.
He and I had been friends for a long time, going back well before 1992. In a phrase, my policy was “Mend it, but don’t end it. Somewhere, there was a deep longing to share the fate of the people who had been left out and left behind, sometimes brutalized, and too often ignored or forgotten. They proved what I’d said all along, that the coffees were not fund-raisers, but wide-ranging and often interesting discussions with some people who were supporters and some who weren’t.
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