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Any such conversations could only expose our young staffers to depositions, political attacks, and big legal bills. Moreover, I believed we could pass welfare reform separately with bipartisan support. ld do so again on other occasions between November and April, when she left the White House for the Pentagon. In Texas, George W.

al policies and for my major Hispanic appointments; and hosted the National Governors Association for the last time. If Syria attacked Israel, the Israelis could win easily. It seemed to me that we didn’t have much to lose, and I always preferred failure in a worthy effort to inaction for fear of failure. the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, even though there had never been an African-American on the court.