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Everett Koop, who had served as President Reagan’s surgeon general, a position he used to educate the nation about AIDS and the importance of preventing its spread. I agreed to give him three more hours, but made it clear that any agreement he made with the general could not include another delay in the handover to Aristide. Jim and I had become friends in the 1980s, when he was governor of Michigan. Carter pleaded for more time.

s of women without health insurance; tightened sanctions on Haiti because of the continued killing and mutilation of Aristide irst black graduate of West Point, who, because of his race, had been wrongfully convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer 117 years earlier. I also proposed the largest increase in history for the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Science Found in a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party, assured me that our solidarity on North Korea would remain intact.