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But that’s not how the independent counsel, congressional Republicans, and the Whitewater reporters played it. On the eighteenth, I vetoed two more appropriations bills, one for the Department of the Interior, the other for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development. On the night of January 5, Mother called me at the White House. We had a lot of leverage because the Republicans wouldn’t dare shut the government down again, and they had wasted a

Medicaid; and supported Al Gore’s suggestion of a broad-based energy tax, called a BTU tax, on the heat content of energy at the wholesale level. In several cases, the men in question later cooperated with prosecutors and received shorter sentences than the women had. forces “pre-positioned” in the Gulf would deter further aggression by Saddam Hussein and allow us to respond quickly if deterrence was unsuccessful. There was no way I could, or should, be taken off the “blame line.