professor barbara sinclair. >> thank you. i would like to thank the miller center, barbara perry, katrina, who has been just wonderful. i don't think the center could survive without her and everyone else who has made this such a, i think, at least to this point, such a successful conference. the topic on which i was asked to talk and write and half of my title is george h.w. bush, congress and domestic policy making. this work is based certainly on the miller center transcripts and fred mcclure's transcript is particularly useful. but it's also based on other primary and secondary resources, including my own interviews with members of congress, congressional staffers and other knowledgeable folks that i conducted during the bush administration. if the spirit of full disclosure i shouldei a congressional scholar, so my paper probably does have a kind of congressional skew of perspective. now, i argue here and elsewhere that presidential legislative success, while certainly in part a function of the president's and his administ