In 1989, House Speaker Jim Wright, dogged by questions about his ethics, announced he would resign. Thomas Foley later succeeded him. In 1993, President Clinton paid a Memorial Day visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where some in the crowd jeered him for avoiding military service. In 1994, the United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union. In 1997, Pope John Paul II began an 11-day tour of his native Poland, his seventh visit since assuming the papacy.
Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.