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The night before, I kidded her about going to her first day of “Senator School,” telling her she had to get a good night’s sleep and wear a nice outfit. The director of the Travel Office was later indicted for embezzlement based on Travel Office funds found in his personal One of President Bush’s boosters, Charlie Black, invited the press to watch a new TV ad attacking me on the draft. The United States also pledged to maintain its troop presence of about 100,000 in Japan, Korea, and the rest of

I kidded Newt Gingrich that I had finally found a tax cut that he was against. He had survived several assassination attempts in his long reign, and he knew well that “taking risks for peace” was far more than a fine-sounding phrase. eness, and rereadingThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, theMeditations of Marcus Aurelius, and several of the most He felt comfortable bringing me bad news and disagreeing with me at meetings, and he had done a superb job on a whole range of issues in the first term.