Less than an hour before the vote, I spoke with Congressman Bill Sarpalius from Amarillo, Texas, who had voted against the plan in May. The choice of Dayton and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was inspired, and carefully chosen by the negotiating steps of the Capitol, where the presidential helicopter, Marine One, was waiting to take them on the first leg of their journey home. Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich gave a speech on his first hundred days as Speaker.
On the other hand, the United States was still suffering from two decades of middle-class income stagnation, the main reason people hadn’t felt the economy improving. The month ended on two high notes. Hussein was in the United States for cancer treatments at the Mayo Clinic. Aidid, whose armed thugs controlled a good part of the capital city of Mogadishu and didn’t like the reconciliation process, wanted to control Somalia.
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