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In the House Banking Committee, Chairman Jim Leach was behaving much like D’Amato. After breaking for Christmas, I vetoed one more budget bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. Nunn spoke to members of Haiti’s parliament; Powell told the Haitian military leaders in graphic terms what would happen if the United States invaded; and Carter worked on Cedras. The White House carpenters made me floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, and the staff brought up the table on which the Spanish-American War treaty had been signed.

a security barrier just outside Khobar Towers, a military housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Signing the bill had one significant downside: Senator Robert Byrd, the most respected authority in Congress o The epithet Gingrich hurled at us was correct in some respects. The economy had continued to improve, and so far I was winning the budget fight with the Republicans, a battle that in the beginning seemed likely to doom my presidency.