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I asked Ron Brown to be the commerce secretary, fulfilling a campaign commitment to elevate the importance of a department that had been considered a “second tier” agency for too long. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter had supported Habitat for years. I went into the Queen’s Room and thought of Winston Churchill spending three weeks there in the difficult days of World War II. m something I want to tell you—that is, I have always been a very hardworking, kind of hard-driving person.

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