12/02/2026 17:27

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I loved being President and Hillary was deeply committed to her health-care work. On the other hand, I had always had a tendency to try to do too much, which also contributed to physical exhaustion, irritability, and my well-deserved reputation for tardiness. After the FBI fired the tear gas into the buildings where the people were holed up, the Davidians started a fire. Dole had failed in his efforts to kill the crime bill, but he had prevailed in derailing health care.

With Al Gore taking the lead for the White House and Speaker Gingrich in his positive entrepreneurial m Regardless, it was clear that we had to do something, in Lloyd Bentsen’s words, “to lance the boil. of the impeachment fiasco and how much more damage the right wing could inflict if they controlled both the White House and the Congress. Hillary and I would stay for a dance or two, then go upstairs while the revelers stayed at it for another hour or so.