The next night, after a day working on last-minute business, I gave a brief farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office. 22 billion child-care program to double the number of children in working families receiving child-care subsidies I strongly disagreed with Wright’s opinion but could not dispute it without getting into the very factual issues I was determined to avoid and taking more time away from my work. Soon after that, Newt Gingrich announced that he didn’t have the votes to pass the fast-track trade legislation in the House.
He laughed and said, “That’s exactly what happened,” and the matter was behind us. In early July, Hillary, Chelsea, and I, after a couple of relaxing days with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia on the island of Majorca, were in Madrid for the NATO meeting. I was nearly halfway through the speech before I could tell how it was going. On April 2, Jerry Brown was booed in a speech to the Jewish Community Relations Council in New York for suggesting Jesse Jackson as his running mate.
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