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Charlene Barshefsky completed a sweeping trade agreement with Vietnam, and the House adopted an amendment by my It tripled during his eight years, thanks to the big tax cuts in 1981 and increases in spending. Since it would promote free enterprise, I hoped to get strong bipartisan support and was encouraged by the fact that Speaker Hastert seemed especially interested in the effort. Unfortunately, the good news was dwarfed by what was happening in Bosnia.

I was very frustrated, and I hoped that before I left office we would locate bin Laden for a missile strike. One of them was my friend and ally Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who had lost an arm and very nearly his life in the war. We had defeated the philosophy behind the “Contract with America” by winning the government shutdown debate. To its credit, the Bush administration did urge the United Nations to impose economic sanctions on Serbia, a measure initially opposed by Secretary-