I was not denying that there was a reference to multiple petitions. My point was the gentleman counterposed that to retroactivity. I think the gentleman wrote down one thing and found another. I think he just made a mistake. If you want to prove that he is inconsistent on retroactivity, an ``s'' on petitions does not do it.
Addressing a debate on the interpretation of petitions and retroactivity.
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We should have made it much higher, $125 billion or more, and we should have indexed it.
I was particularly pleased that, unlike some others, he did not exclude Muslims from that tradition.
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