Some of my friends had given what they thought was strategic advice; others were genuinely appalled by what I had done. To bring me on, my friends Harry and Linda Bloodworth Thomason produced a short film entitled “The Man from Hope. I didn’t take those criticisms too seriously. I invited House Speaker Tom Foley, House majority leader Dick Gephardt, and Senate majority leader George Mitchell to Little Rock for dinner and a morning meeting.
Still, I was optimistic about Kerrey because he was genuinely committed to reducing the deficit, and he w Instead of a President fighting to change America for the better, I was being portrayed as a man who had abandoned down-home for uptown, a knee-jerk liberal whose mask of moderation had been removed. sions over Kashmir; to urge General Musharraf not to execute the deposed prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, my position on both the budget debate, and on the larger question that the budget battle presented: What was the proper
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