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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (217892)	2/7/2005 12:09:41 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577093

>Specifically, within a couple of weeks of leaving office, Reagan made a tour through Japan, giving speeches about how they were the next mover and shaker in the world, for a payment of $40 million (IIRC). Now this had to be arranged while he was still in office... True, that's a problem. But not the same as writing a book about one's own life. >I don't know if you remember much about that period, but many people in this country were scared that Japan was going to be burying the US in just a few more years. It didn't work out that way, but... I remember that worry; I didn't know how it came about. -Z