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He also never allowed his ego to get in the way of good decision making. In theory, cumulative voting would dramatically increase the odds of minority candidates being elected. Many of my most important foreign policy decisions had not been popular at first. Now it totaled $4 trillion.

After we discussed Cuba, García Márquez lavished most of his attention on Chelsea, who said she had read two of his books. We had to pick targets, move the necessary military assets into place, and figure out how to handle Pakistan. I believed his selection would work precisely because it didn’t have the traditional kind of balance. he various functions she would be responsible for there, and the important contributions of her predecessors.