The turnout differential alone probably accounted for half of our losses, and contributed to a Republican gain of eleven governorships. Just a week earlier, I had signed the anti-terrorism legislation that the Congress had finally passed, a full year after Oklahoma City. Thanks to George Mitchell and his leadership team, and our lobbying, we had held all the senators from the first vote except David Boren. Two of my Secret Service agents, who almost never said anything to me about politics, told me how glad they were to see the two of us in a positive discussion.
orld War II, to repair run-down facilities and help build new ones in school districts so overcrowded that classes wer All the world was cheering, except for diehard protesters in the Middle East who were inciting violence, and demonstrators in front of the White House claiming we were endangering Israel’s security. Its flaws, as all the world knows, are mostly mine, and its continuing promise is grounded in their love. The policeman who introduced me said he had survived severe combat in Vietnam without a mark, but had nearly been killed by a criminal who used an assault weapon to riddle his body with bullets.
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