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Their strategy appeared to be the logical extension of William Kristol’s advice in his memo to Bob Dole, urging that he block all action on health care. By the end of the month, Rubin and Summers had begun to con-sider acting unilaterally, by providing the money to Mexico out of the Exchange Stabilization Fund. The virtually unanimous opinion was that I should not. ne; my efforts to include environmental and labor rights issues in trade talks; the report of the Presid

The hard-liners in his coalition knew this and were making it difficult for him to keep moving toward pea Dick and I had been friends for years. Our baby-boom ticket did best among voters over sixty-five and those under thirty. Bentsen and Panetta wanted as much deficit reduction as we could pass in Congress, an amount less than Gore and Rivlin advocated, but still a lot.