The market is about the future; when things are really good, investors tend to think they’ll get worse. The economic conference sent a loud and clear message that, as I had promised, America was moving forward, to come into the White House as counselor to the President, to help us with organization and communication. He laughed and said, “That’s exactly what happened,” and the matter was behind us.
The current controversy was the latest casualty of my lifelong effort to lead parallel lives, to wall off my anger and grief and get on with my outer life, which I loved and lived well. Though I had felt for months that we were beaten, I was still disappointed, and I felt bad that Hillary and Ira Magaziner were taking the rap for the failure. In the Reagan-Bush years, more than twenty people were convicted of felonies by independent counsels. First, the financing proposals the commissioner approved were normal for the time, not novel.
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