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er than when I took office, reducing the costs of mortgages, car payments, business loans, and student loans. llary and I didn’t do anything wrong, and Chris Wade, the real estate agent in north Arkansas who supervised I called Mubarak and read him the points. After the first filibuster vote, we should have tried to negotiate a smaller package with Dole, or accepted a

After breaking for Christmas, I vetoed one more budget bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. On November 7, in a specialMeet the Press interview I did with Tim Russert and Tom Brokaw on the show’s forty-sixth anniversary, Russert asked me why my ratings were down. I had already recorded more than 170 radio ads and telephone messages to be dialed into homes of hard-core Democrats and minorities, asking them to vote for our candidates. In the first and third, we would be questioned by members of the press.