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ing with their loss by telling Ron Brown stories; there were many worth repeating from the long journey he had trave tments in our future, and it challenged the American people to do more to help those in need and to heal our divisions. The raid had gone terribly wrong. llary’s who had supported me in California; and Erskine Bowles, a successful North Carolina businessman who h

Second, economic dislocation in Mexico could lead to a 30 percent increase in illegal immigration, or half a million more people each year. A week later, I began my cabinet announcements with my economic team, starting with Lloyd Bentsen, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, as secretary of the Treasury. On April 1, during a meeting with President Bush at the White House, President Carter made a widely reported comment that he supported me. China, with the region’s fastest-growing economy, had kept the crisis from growing even worse by refusing to devalue its currency.