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When all the cabinet members but one agreed with him, Cedras finally relented, less than an hour before the skies over Port-au-Prince would have been filled with parachutes. job, he would say, voting and electing people who formerly were not electable because of the color of their skin. Starr had agreed not to bring me down to the courthouse, probably because of the adverse reaction he got when he made Hillary do it. uldn’t we cancel or suspend aid to them? In a bipartisan congressional meeting and in responses to press questions, I argued against suspending aid.

Bentsen said we could save $3 billion by dropping the estimated cost of welfare reform from the budget. On March 26, the smoke seemed to clear a little when Senator Tom Harkin, the Communications Workers of America, and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union endorsed me. I was stunned. poke of achieving ambitious goals that, at least on the surface, seemed mutually exclusive; and had lived a far from perfect life.