Samuel Johnson once said that nothing concentrates the mind as much as the prospect of one’s own destruction. On the eve of the second debate, I was still struggling. ility benefits for children born with spina bifida as a result of their fathers’ exposure to Agent Orange during the war. Tom Harkin had endorsed me earlier.
At ten, Hillary, Chelsea, and I walked across the street to the White House, where we were met on the front steps by President and Mrs. At about this time, Mir Aimal Kansi, who was believed to be responsible for murdering two CIA employees and woundin Kenneth Starr indicted Jim and Susan McDougal and Governor Jim Guy Tucker on charges unrelated to Whitewater, and the Senate and House Republicans held hearings all month. Democrats had worked black churches like that for years, but the Christian Coalition, at least in Georgia, was particularly effective at it, changing the outcome by 5 percent in both 1992 and 1996.
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