The other main foreign policy developments in June occurred around the G-7 summit hosted by Jean Chrétien in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jacques Chirac, who had just been elected presidentof France, stopped by to see me on his way to Canada. Chirac had warm feelings for America.As a young man, he had spent time in our country,
Painting From Photo ,including a brief period working in aofby hisnuclear weapons while I was trying to get worldwidesupport for a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty, a goal of every American President sincethey and the regular peacekeepershad to be withdrawn. But I also told Chirac
Painting From Photo , that if the force didn’t work and the UN troopswere forced out of Bosnia, we would have to lift the arms embargo.At the G-7, I had three objectives: to secure greater cooperation among the allies on terrorism,organized crime, and narco-trafficking; to identify major financial crises quickly and handlethem better, with more timely and accurate information and with investments in developingnations to reduce poverty and promote environmentally responsible growth; and to resolve aserious trade dispute with Japan.The first two were easily achieved; the third was a real problem. In two and a half years, wehad made progress with Japan, completing fifteen separate trade agreements. However, in thetwo years since Japan had pledged to open its markets to U.S. automobiles and auto parts, thesector that accounted for more than half our total bilateral trade deficit, we had made almostno headway at all. Eighty percent of American dealerships sold Japanese cars; only 7 percentof Japanese dealerships sold cars from any other country, and rigid government regulationkept our parts out of Japan’s repair market. Mickey Kantor had reached the limits of hispatience and had recommended putting a 100 percent tariff on Japanese luxury cars. In ameeting with Prime Minister Murayama, I told him that because of our security relationshipand the sluggish Japanese economy, the
oil painting wholesale,United States would continue to negotiate with Japan,but we had to have action soon. By the end of the month we had it. Japan agreed that twohundred dealerships would offer U.S. cars immediately, and a thousand would do so withinfive years; that the regulations keeping our parts out would be changed; and that Japaneseautomakers would increase their production in the United States and use more Americanmadeparts.During the entire month of June, I was also embroiled in the unfolding battle with theRepublicans over the budget. On the first day of the month, I went to a farm in Billings,Montana, to highlight the differences between my approach to agriculture and that of theRepublicans in Congress. The agricultural aid program had to be reauthorized in 1995, andtherefore was part of the budget debate. I told the farm families that while I favored a modestreduction in overall agricultural spending, the Republican plan cut assistance too sharply anddid too little for family farmers. For several years, Republicans had done better thanDemocrats in rural America because they
wholesale oil painting,were more culturally conservative, but when pushcame to shove, the Republicans cared more about large agribusiness than family farmers.Howard Johnson’s restaurant in Boston. He had an insatiable curiosity about a wide variety issues. I liked him a lot, and liked the fact that his wife was also in politics, with a career of her own. Despite the good chemistry between us, our relationship had been somewhat straineddecision to resume testing France’sEisenhower. After Chirac assured me that when the tests were completed he would support the treaty, we moved on to Bosnia, where
Michael Jackson painting,he was inclined to be tougher on the Serbs than Mitterrand had been. He and John Major were supporting the creation of a rapid reaction force to respond to attacks on UN peacekeepers, and I pledged U.S. military support to help them and the other UN forces get into and out of Bosnia if539
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