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system to deal with a global economy in which more than one trillion dollars crossed national borders every day. By contrast, I thought some of the criticism on the Haitian issue was justified, given the unqualified statements I had made during the campaign. Again, the only good news was in Northern Ireland. Besides, in New Hampshire, the Speaker and I had pledged to try to work together.

And we had made a good start on the third, with more than 130 empowerment zones and enterprise communities, community development banks, and aggressive enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act. Helen Thomas of United Press International, the senior White House correspondent, asked me: “If you had it to do over again, wou ss he testified that Branscum, Hill, and Lindsey had ordered him not to file it, even though Ainley had earlier denied any wrongdoing by them. I was confident Hillary would win the Senate race, and optimistic about what the future held for all of us.