By the time we got to the capital, the public events of our inaugural, entitled “An American Reunion: New Beginnings, Renewed Hope,” were already under way. ” “Why did they let the government take over?” she asks plaintively. To be fair, a few journalists took note. r-income jobs more attractive than public assistance if we were to be successful in moving people from welfare to work.
After the kind of coverage I’d been getting, the piece was manna from heaven. I nearly passed out, and if my alert presidential aide, Andrew Friendly, hadn’t come to my rescue with sunglasses, I might have fainted and spoiled the whole occasion. Then, in the Gulf War, when Iraq fired Scud missiles into Israel, he realized that the land did not provide a security buffer against attacks with modern weapons from the outside. Berger, along with my campaign aide Nancy Soderberg in foreign policy; and Gene Sperling and my old Rhodes classmate Bob
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