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wer home mortgages and lower interest rates on things like car payments, credit card purchases, and student loans. On the eighteenth, Jacques Chirac and Romano Prodi came to the White House for my last meeting with European Union leaders. Five debate coaches interviewed by the Associated Press said that I had won, based on style, specifics, and my ob It had also encouraged the kind of free and open debate that led to criticism of our decision-making p

ged; and that Japanese automakers would increase their production in the United States and use more American-made parts. If that was true, I had to learn to handle it better. I had been fascinated by Brazil since the great jazz saxophonist Stan Getz popularized its music in America in the 1960s, and ever since then I had wanted to see its cities and beautiful landscapes. When we returned from our vacation, we moved into Blair House for three weeks while the White House air-conditioning system was being repaired.