Three days later, I would carry Georgia by just 13,000 votes. Later, Limbaugh falsely charged that “journalists and others working on or involved in Whitewatergate have been beaten and harassed in Little Rock. Now that the American people had given us another term, I was hoping that in the next four years we would be freer to do the public’s business without the turmoil and strife of the first term. He felt comfortable bringing me bad news and disagreeing with me at meetings, and he had done a superb job on a whole range of issues in the first term.
a misleading ad (for which he was called to account) that implied that Senator Moynihan was supporting him, not Hilla eur of the occasion, but the sun was so bright bouncing off the desert sand that it almost blinded me. Since the Senate had forty-four Republicans, the probability that they would at least try to filibuster health care was high. Despite my anger over Whitewater and my puzzlement about what was behind the press coverage of it, I headed into 1996 feeling fairly optimistic.
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