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I felt sure that, within a few months, Congress would pass a balanced budget that would be pretty close to my plan. Shara agreed, and the two sides went home to prepare. During the State of the Union on February 4, I first asked the Congress to conclude the unfinished business of our country: balan Laura impressed me with her knowledge of technology, manufacturing, and trade, the microeconomic issues I felt had been too long ignored in the making of national economic policy.

Senator Richard Shelby, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, had delayed Lake’s confirmation hearings largely on the groun Reich, then a Harvard professor and author of several thought-provoking books on the global economy, in economic policy. As we headed into the last three days of the campaign, I had a choice to make. To Holbrooke’s list I would add a sixth factor: some European leaders were not eager to have a Muslim state in the heart of