He had become nationally known when he financed and engineered the rescue of EDS employees from Iran after the fall of the Shah. Weinberger’s trial was about to get under way, and President Bush was likely to be called as a witness. Just as I had feared, Perot’s advertising, coupled with President Bush’s attacks on me, were moving votes to Perot at my expense. and common sense, had kept things going with them and the principal congressional negotiators at critical moments.
After spending a last Thanksgiving in the Governor’s Mansion with my family, including our annual visit to a shelter that a fri The first time I had seen him give his “compassionate conservative” speech in Iowa, I knew he had a chance to win. age achievements and more on meeting the challenges of the information age, and to clarify our commitment to middle-class values and concerns. From the beginning, he trumpeted every bogus charge against Hillary and me, alleging that we had made, not lost, money on
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