If we are not able to agree on the points, there is no great harm done, either in that case, my brief foreword endorsing it would just have to be omitted.
Laura Sheehan, a spokeswoman for Representative Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan, who had pressed hard for the data, said that disclosing the information without being able to endorse it would "kindle consumer fears".
Anything short of that, and that included a further delay on endorsing it, would have been politically risky for the president.
Once signed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has already endorsed it, the bill would become law in 60 days.
And if a re-elected president were to endorse it, he would be betraying the trust of the voters who returned him to office.
Sure, had Brazil and Turkey actually persuaded the Iranians to verifiably end their whole suspected nuclear weapons program, America would have endorsed it.
While Trump had endorsed it already, Garrett said, he would probably be willing to accept something else if it were changed in a way conservatives could support.
She did Oprah, Beyoncé, Whitney, and a Donatella Versace so accurate that even Donatella said she would have endorsed it, were Rudolph's costume diamonds not so obviously fake.
If Mr. Bush really believed that supporting a constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage was a political slam-dunk, "he would have endorsed it right after the Massachusetts court decision," says Patrick Guerriero, the head of the Log Cabin Republicans.
"I would not endorse it and I wouldn't sign on to it," he said.
