I didn’t want to veto the bill and had asked the Republican leaders just to hold it until we had finished a few other budget bills, but they sent it to me anyway. He told me we were living in turbulent times, but the end would bring me out all right. At that point, Dick Armey broke in to say Dole didn’t speak for the House Republicans. At the press conference after our meeting, Kohl paid a moving tribute to Senator Fulbright, who had died shortly after midnight at the age of eighty-nine.
In a few weeks, the RTC would issue a report saying just that. They wanted to know what their sons had died for and why we had changed course. In early March, Yeltsin and I agreed to meet on April 3 and 4 in Vancouver, Canada. voters in conservative Colorado would pass a measure to do so in their state by an overwhelming margin.
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