Al Gore helped me a lot in the early days, encouraging me to keep making hard decisions and put them behind me, and giving me a continuing crash course in how Washington works. And I wanted Congress to approve a school-to-work program, to provide one or two years of high-quality training for young people who didn’t want to get a four-year college degree. All of them pledged it, including Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, who aptly described the Mexico problem as “the first crisis of the twenty-first century. About an hour into the trip, at the top of a steep incline, the road gave way on the APC, and it somersaulted down the mountain and exploded into flames.
In later years I was often asked what great new idea my economic team and I brought to economic policy making. Besides, the Russians weren’t the only ones with spies. More important, exit polls showed that more than 60 percent of the Democrats who voted thought I had the integrity to serve as President, up from 49 percent in the New York exit polls. Within a week I had decided to send Patriot missiles to South Korea and to ask the UN to impose economic sanctions against North Korea.
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