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That was in part my fault. ing to try to energize the implementation of Wye River and decide how to move to the final status issues. exports to Japan were up 80 percent, and our bilateral trade deficit had declined for three years in a row. Senator Lott and Speaker Gingrich had worked with us in good faith, and Erskine Bowles, with his negotiating skills

ough the morning church service was enlivened by the fiery sermons of the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Tony Campolo, an In the week after Christmas I signed a few more bills and appointed Roger Gregory to be the first African-American judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In response to my attacks, Newt Gingrich threatened to refuse to raise the debt limit and thus put America in default if I vetoed their budget bills. et the course for domestic policy, while I, as President, was restricted to handling foreign affairs.