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primaries, and the state whose votes had officially put me over the top at our convention in New York. On August 17, as their convention opened, I still had a twenty-point lead, and we rained on their parade a little when eighteen corporate chief executives endorsed me. As I mentioned earlier, Yeltsin did agree to a courtesy meeting with me at Blair House on June 18, thanks ligious leaders, including a rabbi, a Catholic archbishop, and an evangelical minister, to pursue the matter further.

nuclear arsenals by two-thirds from their Cold War peak; and the growing opposition in Russia to America’s development of missile defense systems. policy, bolstered by a new study showing that the rich were getting richer while poor Americans were getting poorer. ree to withdraw his troops back across the Line of Control; and second, I would not agree to intervene in t She, too, had been gracious and kind to me over the past eight years.