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For now, I just hoped that the Democrats wouldn’t be pushed by the media pounding into calling for my resignation, and that I would be able to repai nty over the Temple Mount and East Jerusalem, except for the Jewish neighborhoods there; and a soluti meeting the previous December, at King Hussein’s funeral, and in a June phone conversation and follow-up letter. I gave him an encouraging report of my meeting with Netanyahu, assured him that I was pushing the prime minis

from Yale who had stepped into the breach when his party’s original candidate for president, Luis Colosio, was assassinated. Besides the Speaker and his leadership team, my strongest supporter was the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Illinois congressman Dan Rostenkowski. Reagan was a great storyteller, and after eight years in the White House he had some good ones I wanted to hear. Bruce Babbitt had been one of my favorite fellow governors.