r nation’s life by stopping the pursuit of personal destruction and prying into private lives, and moving on. As things turned out, Goldwater’s support and all my arguments were academic. Unlike two years earlier, when I had forced the Republicans to make their harsh budget proposals public before coming forward with my own, I went first. The next day my family attended Sunday church services at Chongwenmen Church, Beijing’s earliest Protestant church, one of the few houses of worship the government had sanctioned.
I had visited General Shelton not long before at Fort Bragg, after a plane crash at nearby Pope Air Force Base had killed several servicemen. So I brought the Palestinian and Israeli teams into the Cabinet Room and read them my “parameters” for proceeding. in spite of Bush’s encouraging comments on education and AmeriCorps, he would feel pressure to cut back on all domestic spendi n exception for health care to the “Byrd rule,” which prohibited the inclusion of nongeneric items in the budget-reconciliation bill.
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