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While we were getting organized and dealing with the controversies in the press, most of my time in January and February was devoted to filling in the details of the economic plan. rance for themselves, a plan Al was promoting, and I supported making the first $10,000 of college tuition tax-de One day, after one of our budget meetings in October, I asked Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming to stay a moment to talk. Black ministers from home called counterparts in New York to ask for pulpit time for our people on the Sunday before the election.

I enjoyed my time with the new Japanese prime minister, Morihiro Hosokawa, a reformer who had broken the Liberal Democratic Party’s monopoly on power and who had continued to open Japan economically. At least two others were in the original picture. Dole, on the other hand, was genuinely interested in health care and knew we needed to reform the system. Hillary would begin her “listening tour” at Senator Moynihan’s farm at Pindars Corners in upstate New York, and I would take a tour of poor com