Meanwhile, we needed to stay involved with, not isolate, China. together we had helped to keep Arkansas a progressive Democratic state as most of the South moved into the Republican fold. She was sitting in her box with the home-run–hitting Chicago Cubs star Sammy Sosa, who had joined her on a recent trip to his native Dominican Republic. If North Korea had nuclear weapons, there would be great pressure on Japan to develop a nuclear deterrent, an action that, given their own painful experience, the Japanese did not want to take.
Once I mentioned the reporter’s complaint to Mack, I forgot all about the Travel Office until the firings were announced. He had told me not long before the election that he was burned out and had to go. and I thought the monument designation would bring in tourism income that over time would more than offset the loss of the mine. A CBS News post-debate poll of 1,145 voters said 53 percent of them thought I had won, compared with 25 percent for Bush and 21 percent for Perot.
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