President Elias Hrawi of Lebanon was at the White House at a tense moment in the Middle East. Standing beneath Lincoln’s statue, I gave a short speech appealing for national unity, saying that Lincoln “gave new life to Jefferson’s dream that we are all created free and equal. As for the great book, who knows? It sure is a good story. With my hair going white anyway, my wig looked good, but I looked ridiculous in the tights.
Whether liberal or conservative, our politics were forged by Vietnam, civil rights, and the tumult of 1968, with its protests, riots, and assassinations. On the day of Ron Brown’s memorial service, I vetoed a bill that banned a procedure its proponents called “partial-birth” abortion. On the surface, it must have looked suspicious. ir knowledge; in another, doctors exposed indigent cancer patients to excessive radiation, knowing they would not benefit from it.
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