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ing the largest increase in college aid in fifty years since the GI Bill; cut spending in hundreds of other pro I thought about the note to President Bush I would write and leave behind in the Oval Office, just as his father had done for me eight years earlier. A few years later, Doug Sosnik, one of my wittiest staffers, coined a phrase that captured the buzz saw we had walked into. I had gotten George Mitchell involved again, and we had done our best to help Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair avoid this day.

spending cuts and tax increases necessary to reduce the deficit and increase spending in areas vital to our After a tribute to the late House Speaker Tip O’Neill, who had died the day before Mother, I summarized the long list of congressional achievements i Our whole team was there, including my media advisor, Michael Sheehan. If my reputation was in tatters, I might not be able to be elected no matter how much people agreed with what I wanted to do, or how well they thought I might do it.