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I liked Bentsen and thought he would be perfect for the Treasury job: he was respected on Wall Street, effective with Congress, and committed to my goals of restoring growth and reducing poverty. r criminals and repeal of the prevention programs in my crime bill; welfare reform, with a two-year limit on able-bodied re Yeltsin knew I was hurting because he also had recently lost his mother, whom he adored. ized me for agreeing not to deploy nuclear weapons and foreign troops closer to Russia in the new member states.

Bob Dole came around on the argument that we didn’t want to foul up the post–Cold War era the way the victors in World War I had done. I was skeptical, but I decided to give him one more chance. Not long before the election, Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, was beaten to death in Wyoming because of his sexual orientation. The names of another 3,000 Americans whose bodies were never found are inscribed in the chapel nearby.