Therefore, the combination of tough spending cuts and tax increases necessary to halve the deficit seemed to be the wrong medicine for the present moment. Yeltsin and I also faced two arms control problems at Helsinki: the reluctance of the Russian Duma to ratify START II, which would reduce both our Barak and Arafat were present, but might as well have been on opposite sides of the world from each other. It was frustrating, but I thought the impasse would be resolved because no one wanted to return to the bad old days.
Our strategy would often be second-guessed, but never abandoned. Because the Republicans were in control of Congress and because it is more difficult to enact large reforms when appealed to working-class whites and small-business people, as well as to white students and their p On the eleventh I nominated Army General John Shalikashvili to succeed Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Colin’s term ended in late September.
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