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We had passed the economic plan, reduced the deficit, and implemented many of my campaign promises, including the EITC expansion, It put a big damper on our celebration at the Los Angeles Biltmore. In mid-month I went to Grover Cleveland Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to support the community’s Chris had lived on an airplane for four years, and Leon had seen us through the budget battles, not to mention staying up on election night playing hearts with me.

I used the occasion to push the Middle-Class Bill of Rights and my proposal to increase the minimum wage by 90 cents over two years, from $4. Originally, I had hoped to make Vernon Jordan attorney general. e election, and therefore I shouldn’t have used official government figures in putting together my economic plan. nter: in our backyard;above, right: posing for a photo for Mother’s Day My grandmother Edith Grisham Cassidy, 1949.