09/03/2026 13:49

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That year, I was giving the traditional Irish greeting,céad míle fáilte, “a hundred thousand welcomes And, most surprising, Ross Perot said he was thinking of reentering the presidential race, because he didn’t think the President or I had a serious plan to reduce the deficit. Nunn, while opposed to my position, had agreed to the six-month delay. On the morning of the thirteenth, the atmosphere around the White House was alive with excitement as well as tension.

I named the other finalist for the OMB job, Alice Rivlin, as Leon’s deputy. It was a defensible position on the merits, and understandable, given the importance of Florida in the election. So did a lot of other pro-life Democrats in the state. Now I was standing on a podium on the eastern side of unified Berlin, facing an enthusiastic crowd of fifty thousand Germa