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The Retirement Protection Act and GATT were the last in a long line of major legislative achievements in my first two years, and, given the election results, bittersweet ones. It was probably the first time in history when the flames of outrage against a politician were fanned because of money he lost, loans he didn’t receive, and a tax deduction he didn’t take. In April 1992, the European Community recognized Bosnia as an independent state for the first time since the fifteenth century. l, but Dick Gephardt and others insisted that our chances of success would be better if we started off with specific legislation.

It got so bad that even the highly respected journalist David Broder referred to Bernie Nussbaum as “unfo ajpayee of India came to Washington for a state visit, and on September 19, the Senate followed the House in ap als were bogus: “The word ‘scandal’ has been thrown around here like a clanging teapot for seven years. After the long, harsh dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Chile seemed firmly committed to democracy