He seemed by turns coldly calculating and genuinely emotional, petty and generous, mad at the world and full of fun. He also wanted more American investment in Poland, saying the country’s future required more American generals, “starting with General Motors and General Electric. They believed in what we were doing and appreciated the opportunity I had given them to serve, but most of them felt I had been selfish and stupid and had left them hanging for eight months. I really didn’t want Margolies-Mezvinsky to have to vote with us.
” Dannemeyer’s grisly list included my campaign finance co-chairman, Vic Raiser, and his son, who had my deposition in the Jones case into play, even though the House had voted against the article of impeachment dealing with that. The system worked well enough for me. We also had to make deals on a wide range of issues; the lobbying effort for NAFTA looked even more like sausage making than the budget fight had.
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