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The questioner kept pushing him, saying she’d had friends who had been laid off, who couldn’t make their mortgage and car payments. To most of them, we were still strangers. Yet everywhere we went, I met intelligent, hardworking people who were capable of contributing much more to the economy. Ryutaro Hashimoto had been Mickey Kantor’s counterpart before becoming the head of the Japanese government.

The late Bush-Perot tag-team attack on Arkansas had shaved two or three points off our high-water mark a few days before the election. On every trip, I marveled at the number of citizens from all over America who just showed up to help. Late in the spring, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Paula Jones suit could go forward while I was still in the White House, dismissin eries of bipartisan forums around the country in which, despite everything else that was going on, we searc