I urged several cabinet members and Speaker Gingrich to read it. ousands of people had been arrested, and damages from looting and burning were estimated to be higher than $700 million. Before the primaries were over, an ad hoc veterans’ group supporting Bush accused McCain of betraying his country in the five and a half years he was a POW in North Vietnam. In Baumholder, General George Joulwan, the NATO commander, briefed me on the military plan and assured me that the morale of the troops about to go to Bosnia was high.
I also proposed funds to help schools develop successful violence prevention and conflict-resolution programs like the one I had just observed at T. On the sixteenth, the United Nations accepted our recommendation for declaring a “safe area” around Sreb Not surprisingly, the Republicans tried to blame me for the shutdown. That’s why FDR, after being elected on a promise to balance the budget, abandoned deficit reduction in favor of big spending to put people back to work and stimulate the private economy.
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