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For the next six and a half weeks, the economic future of the country, not to mention the future of my presidency, hung in the balance. Donilon’s job was important; defeating a President’s appointments because of financial or personal problems i We visited Thailand to honor the king’s fiftieth year on the throne of one of America’s oldest allies in Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda; the absence of peace in the Middle East; the standoff between nuclear powers I

By the end of the month we had it. ” She tries it, only to be greeted by another recording: “We’re sorry, all health-care representatives are busy now. On the same day, President Bush was in Virginia to address the conservative Christian Coalition. I was there for the rest of the night in agonizing pain.