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I asked Les Aspin to be secretary of defense after it became clear that Sam Nunn wouldn’t accept the appointment. She loved Barbra, and in her mind, Las Vegas was the closest thing she’d seen to heaven on earth. There were a few fireworks when Dole hit me for scaring seniors with my ads criticizing the Medicare cuts in He derided me for being part of a baby boomer “elite who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered, and never learned.

I suspended charter flights to Cuba, restricted travel by Cuban officials in the United States, expanded f Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri, and Ohio, there weren’t enough union members to win the war on the ground. Newsweek ran an article reporting that the public’s reaction to my testimony and television address about it was “calm and measured. Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein said they were disappointed because the principles lacked specificity as to how the peace process would operate and how Sinn Fein would be able to participate in it.