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the bond market; and I would have left more police officers and children at the mercy of assault weapons. After Al Gore plainly bested Ross Perot in a heavily watched TV debate on NAFTA, it passed the House, 234–200. I thought America could do better than that. I was immensely impressed with the quality of both delegations.

Shalikashvili that I knew he supported our involvement in Bosnia but that many of his subordinates remained ambivalent. The Irish were beginning to prosper economically, Europe as a whole was moving toward greater economic and political integration, and tolerance for terrorism among the Irish had dropped. I replaced him with Doug Sosnik, the White House political director, who was almost as aggressive as Rahm, understood politics and I had entered the race largely because I thought I was right for these times of dramatic change in how Americans live, work, raise children, and relate to the rest of the world.