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ost as ambassador to Germany to become assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs, sent our sp Then Senator Wendell Ford called me to the podium as “the President of the United States. ericans and Hispanics in the last seven years and pointing out how far we had to go: Though minor-ity unemp I was determined not to let that happen again.

For whatever reasons, the jury convicted all three defendants on several of the charges against them. The next day the stock market fell 115 points, prompting me to tease Bob Rubin again about how much Wall Street hated it when average Americans did well. I thought it was the right thing to do, and also good politics. “The incumbent President says unemployment always goes up a little before a recovery begins, but unemployment only has to go up one more person before a real recovery can begin.