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o sell 150 F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan and 72 F-15s to Saudi Arabia, securing jobs in defense plants located in critical states. I decided to issue it, but to restrict it so that Adams couldn’t do any fund-raising or travel outside New York during his three-day stay. It happened again in 1998 and 2002. Clearly our large trade deficit with Japan was due in part to protectionism.

We were flanked on the stage by tribal kings draped in bright-colored native kente cloth and entertained by African rhythms played by several Ghanaians on by far the largest drum I had ever seen. On the twelfth, I was en route to Indonesia for the annual APEC leaders’ meeting, where the eighteen Asian-Pacific Back in the White House, I let out a whoop of joy, and relief. As spring turned to summer, I hosted our largest state dinner ever, as more than four hundred people gath