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I had recently done a television interview in Cleveland in which a man said he no longer supported me because I was spending all my time on gays in the military and Bosnia. I asked them not to abolish AmeriCorps, as they had threatened to do. of strategic policy for the Joint Chiefs and a fellow Arkansan I had first met at Georgetown in 1965. So did Al Gore.

ure-oriented, “empowering government”; it also fairly described our economic and social policies and Al Gore’s “Rego” initiative. John Emerson had the responsibility of riding herd on the project and other matters of concern to his native state. Bernie Nussbaum urged me to choose Louis Freeh, a former FBI agent whom President Bush had appointed to the federal bench in New York after a stellar career as a federal prosecutor. And I was filled with gratitude.