Though I kept working hard and continued to love my job, my normally sunny disposition and innate optimism would be put to one severe test after another. Finally, on March 29, eight months after Bob Rubin and I had first requested it, I signed a bill to increase the debt limit. As we headed into the last three days of the campaign, I had a choice to make. Patrick’s Day reception at the White House that night.
To his credit, a few years later Dole apologized to me. He knew we would bring more Haitians to the United States than the Bush administration had, and he didn’t want his people to drown. ” Apparently, when it came to appointments, the name of the game wasn’t supposed to be “follow the leader” but “follow the leaker. I didn’t blame him, but I knew we weren’t on the verge of World War III.
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