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The race came down to Florida, after Gore won a narrow victory of 366 votes in New Mexico, one of several states that were closer than they would have been had Ralph Nader not been on the ballot. nd stared at the lithograph of him signing the Emancipation Proclamation, on the very spot where I was standing. I was overwhelmed when I looked out into the faces of all those people, so full of happiness and hope. mpass the investigation of Lewinsky, apparently being less than truthful about the basis for his request.

One disappointing thing about leaving office in December was that I fell twenty-four days short of breaking Orval Faubus’s record as my state’s longest-serving governor. Instead, the interview turned into a session on the billing records. On March 11, Senator Robert Byrd, the senior Senate Democrat and ultimate authority on the body’s rules, told us he would not make a les at home and triumphs abroad, and, against all odds, a stunning demonstration of the common sense and fundamental decency of the American people.