No American President had been there in twenty years because of Syria’s support for terrorism and its domination of Lebanon. Since there was nothing to Whitewater, the only way to use the investigation against me was to turn it into one long “away game. He had skewered President Bush for signing the Democrats’ deficit-reduction package in 1990 because it contained a gas-tax increase. And I didn’t care about the risk of losing—I reminded our team that I had lost plenty of times myself.
The scandal machine was trying to get blood out of a turnip, and maybe this would shut them up and give Vince’s family some relief. Berger, along with my campaign aide Nancy Soderberg in foreign policy; and Gene Sperling and my old Rhodes classmate Bob Many of the FOBs who came illustrated the extent to which I was indebted to my personal friends: Marsha Scott an I was in Europe for D-day, so Al Gore called Carter and told him that I had no objection to his goin
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