Just as they had done in the 1980s and would do again in the 2000s, the Republicans were trying to abolish arithmetic. Warren Christopher and the State Department, including our ambassador to Great Britain, Ray Seitz, were s I had started playing again only two weeks earlier and was still wearing a soft leg brace for protection. Even though I was intrigued by Gingrich and impressed by his political skills, I didn’t think much of his claim that his politics represented America’s best values.
” My deputy chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, who had become a close friend and golfing partner and who was a superb manager and our best liaison to the business community, was going home, too. If I went around wearing a hair shirt, they would say I was too damaged to lead. A right-wing extremist group had established a compound in the mountains of north Arkansas. On the eve of my trip, and with our urging, Prime Ministers Major and Bruton announced a breakthrough
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