“Tonight we reverse the order,” he said. ment, and a reduction in the salaries of top appointees and in their perks, like limousine service and private dining rooms. And he had been a great education governor. We had invited more than 2,500 people to the event, which George Stephanopoulos and Rahm Emanuel had labored over.
There were two problems with that argument. Kagame was the nation’s most powerful political leader; he had decided that it would advance the reconciliation process to begin with a president from the majority Hutu tribe. I liked Rawlings and respected the fact that after seizing power in a military coup, he was elected and reelected president, and was committed to relinquishing his office in 2000. If I later had to veto Republican budget bills, I wanted to do so after demonstrating a good-faith effort to make honorable compromises.
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