17/03/2026 08:03

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I called back to the White House from the Middle East trip and said I thought that, on my return, I should stay at work and make news rather than go back to the campaign trail. I had started playing again only two weeks earlier and was still wearing a soft leg brace for protection. Why were the records turning up after all this time? If you had seen the disordered array of papers we brought up from Arkansas, you wouldn’t have been surprised. I began by saying, “On this day, with high hopes and brave hearts, in massive numbers, the American people have voted to make a new beginning.

I got her a pretty diamond ring to mark a milestone in our lives and to make up for the fact that when she agreed to marry me, I didn’t have enough money to buy her an engagement ring. I wanted the city’s residents to know I cared about their problems and wanted to be a good neighbor. With his unusual combination of great political gifts and a caring heart, Henry had become the most popular Hispanic politician in America. The problem with the slogan was that it didn’t give Al the full benefit of our record of economic and social progress or put into sharp relief Bush’s explicit commitment to undo that progress.