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On Shelton’s office wall were pictures of two great Confederate Civil War generals, Robert E. The Republicans were rewarded for two years of constant attacks on me and for their solidarity on the contract. I asked the Republicans to work with the White House and the Democrats in the same spirit that had produced the bipartisan welfare reform bill in 1996 and the Balanced Budget Act in 1997. As soon as I dropped Hillary and Chelsea off, I left for a long-planned trip to Europe to establish a process for o

In the first week of September, Saddam Hussein was making trouble again, assaulting and occupying the town of Ir Two days later I nominated George Tenet, the acting CIA director who had been John Deutch’s deputy and before that Meanwhile, Donna Shalala and I had already gone far in reforming the welfare system on our own. Mary’s Hospital, a Catholic institution the White House medical team had chosen because it had an excellent emergency room.