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klahoma, indicted President Reagan’s defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, and five others, with a not That year, I was giving the traditional Irish greeting,céad míle fáilte, “a hundred thousand welcomes rty computer-software companies, including Microsoft executive vice president Steve Ballmer, endorsed me. Dick’s main advice was that I had to practice the politics of “triangulation,” bridging the divide between Republicans and Democrats and taking the best ideas of both.

We were becoming both more diverse and more united. te Investment Corporation to help raise $15 billion to create new businesses and jobs in poor communities; to enact th On December 21, I named Hazel O’Leary, an African-American utility executive from Northern States Power Company in Minnesota, to be secretary of energy, and Dick Riley, to be secretary of education. In contrast to Byrd and Nunn, Chuck Robb, who was conservative on many issues and had survived heated com