She argued that, if it eased our political problems or was simply better policy, we would save ourselves some headaches by reducing the figure to $135 billion or even a little less. On February 9, just a week before I was slated to announce my economic program, I proposed the 25 percent reduction, cutting the staff by 350 people, down to 1,044 employees. The interplay between the old adversaries was fascinating. I told the Congress and the American people that one of America’s greatest strengths in the Cold War had been a bipartisan foreign policy.
ed not only concrete achievements but also the sense of possibility and community I wanted America to embody. Bernie disagreed, saying that if Congress passed a new independent counsel law and I signed it, which I had promised to do, the judges on the Washington, D. The world economy was dragging, with growth in Europe the slowest in more than a decade, and in Japan the slowest in nearly two decades. For the last several months, we had been pushing Justice hard to send us more files, and they were doing better.
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