On the last day of September, I attended the retirement ceremony of General John Shalikashvili and gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He criticized Bush for his no-tax pledge and said I wanted to spend too much money. his Social Democratic Party opponent, Gerhard Schroeder, was running on a platform that was a lot like what Tony Blair and I were advocating. ” Even Jerry Brown said the press should lay off because the issue wasn’t relevant.
John Major was hanging on in England, but was hurt by constant unfavorable comparison to his predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, something the Iron Lady did nothing to discourage. meeting the previous December, at King Hussein’s funeral, and in a June phone conversation and follow-up letter. I was so proud of her; the unfair hard knocks she had endured had done nothing to dull the idealism that I had fallen in love with so long ago. After the farm event, my advance man, Mort Engleberg, had asked one of our hosts what he thought of me.
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