ng to rebuild two rural churches, one white and one black, that had been burned in the recent rash of church burnings. Once again he declined to do so. Two of my most important core concerns were combating youth violence and healing the racial divide. Bruce Babbitt had been one of my favorite fellow governors.
During and after the transition, I was criticized for not following through on my campaign commitments to cut middle-class taxes, halve the deficit in four years, and take in the Haitian boat people. Cedras couldn’t have more time to murder children, rape young girls, and slash women’s faces. We organized an exhaustive effort led by John Koskinen to make sure all government systems were ready for the new millennium and to help the private sector make the adjustment. We had built and crossed our bridge to the twenty-first century, “and we’re not going back.
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