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I also had a cordial meeting with the House minority leader, Bob Michel, an old-fashioned conservative Korb, who had enforced the ban as an assistant secretary of defense under Reagan, said it was not necessary for maintaining the quality and strength of our forces. He was gracious and pledged a smooth transition, as did Dan Quayle. After announcing the attacks in Martha’s Vineyard, I flew back to Washington to speak to the American people for the

A week later I nominated the first Asian-American to the cabinet: former congressman Norm Mineta of California agreed to serve for I still don’t have the answer to his question, given the hysterical atmosphere that had engulfed Washington at the time. ed to free his country of the narco-traffickers and terrorists who controlled about one-third of its territory. Following tradition, President Bush and I rode together, with Speaker Foley and Wendell Ford, the gravelly-voiced senator from Kentucky who was co-ch