America already had a sizable trade deficit with China, one that would grow over the years as the United States purchased between 35 and 40 percent of Chinese exports annually. There were several such cases in the 1980s, when some oil was under price controls and some was not, inviting the dishonest to underestimate their income or to overcharge their customers. When I saw Shelton on television as he stepped ashore, I remarked to one of my staff that America had come a long way if a man who revered Stonewall Jackson could be the liberator of Haiti. In one comment, he more than made up for the problems he had caused me during the Cuban refugee crisis in 1980.
te Square from the White House, down a street filled with homeless people who had spent the night there, ork, was, to put it mildly, skeptical that we could come up with a workable health-care plan so quickly. When we got home, the three of us watched an old John Wayne movie until we dozed off for a couple of hours. Most polls had Gore trailing Bush, and at my press conference on June 28, I was asked by an NBC News reporter whether Al was being held accountable for the “scandals” of the administration.
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