The trip was the longest and most comprehensive ever taken to Africa by an American President. Unlike two years earlier, when I had forced the Republicans to make their harsh budget proposals public before coming forward with my own, I went first. he folks who “brought me to the dance”—the Jordans, the McAuliffes, the McLartys, and Harry Thomason. Tears welled up in my eyes several times during the service, and I left it uplifted and ready for the hours ahead.
Conservative columnist George Will said that, by the President’s criteria, “Bush has raised taxes more often in four years than Clinton has in ten. After a week of negotiations coordinated by U. erican neighborhoods, and I wanted to discuss with the ministers and laypeople what we could do about it. I wish we could have done them for two more weeks.
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