The main sticking point was the conflict between our efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons and India’s drive to develop At the end of the month I got back to domestic affairs, vetoing the latest Republican tax cut because it was “too big, too bloated,” and put too great a burden on America’s economy. I said I would handle my personal problems. Our ride got interesting when one of my Secret Service agents fell off his horse; the agent was unhurt, but the horse took off like a rocket across the open range.
Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-Contra prosecutor, was an Oklahoma Republican who had supported President Reagan. There was a deadlock caused by a disagreement between Sinn Fein and the Unionists over whether the IRA’s decommissioning could occur after the new government was formed or had to come before it. On the seventeenth, Tony Lake came to see me and asked me to withdraw his nomination for director of central intelligence. In fact, the bureaucratic costs imposed by the insurance companies were a big reason Americans paid more for health
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