But, as we discussed how much deficit reduction we needed, I was concerned about the short-term drag that Laura Tyson and Alan Blinder predicted—and Roger Altman and Gene Sperling feared—might occur. When friends went to his apartment, they found in his typewriter the beginning of a letter to me that included suggested language for the inaugural speech. I disagreed with the conventional wisdom for several reasons. Hillary and I went to dinner with Tony and Cherie Blair at a restaurant in a restored warehouse district on the Thames.
They proposed big cuts in education and training. I didn’t get to see my children grow up. Eizenstat then spearheaded our attempt to secure justice and compensation for Holocaust survivors and their families whose assets had been looted as they were being packed off to concentration camps. Most of the people who came could not have seen the ceremonies from that viewpoint.
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