He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock. Just a week earlier, I had signed the anti-terrorism legislation that the Congress had finally passed, a full year after Oklahoma City. In one post–hundred-days analysis, a Vanderbilt University political scientist, Erwin Hargrove, observed, “I wonder whether the president isn’t spreading himself too thin. One of the things I liked best about living in the White House was the fresh flowers that filled the residence and office spaces.
A week later, I began my cabinet announcements with my economic team, starting with Lloyd Bentsen, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, as secretary of the Treasury. Then Erskine called to confirm it and tell me how good it was. Finally, after we talked again at length, Bibi agreed to stay with the agreement, but only on the condition that he could change Unlike the two bills I had vetoed, the new legislation retained the federal guarantee of medical care and food aid, increased federa
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