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The victory margin in the electoral college was larger. I wasn’t at all sure that, even if it worked, erecting a missile defense system was the best way to spend the staggering sums it would cost. However, the fact that so many sub-cabinet positions had not been finalized had more to do with the fact that the Democrats had been out of power for twelve years. ax relief for new investments in equipment and for hiring new employees, make it easier for small businesses

Within a few months I had extended the lethal force authorization by expanding the list of targeted bin Laden associates and the circumstances under which they could be attacked. At the end of May, I had to decide whether to extend most-favored-nation status to China. I tried to console everyone, but I was hurting too, and feeling, as I had when Frank Aller killed himself, angry a America was riveted and heartbroken by the tragedy; it claimed the lives of 168 people, including nineteen children who were in the building’s day-care center when the bomb exploded.