Somewhere on the trip we even fit in a round of miniature golf. If Gore got more votes than Bush in Florida, it would be harder for the Supreme Court to give Bush the presidency anyway. I left India feeling that our nations had begun a solid relationship, but wishing I had another week to absorb the country’s beauty and mystery. ban in the Senate, we didn’t have the sixty votes necessary to break a certain filibuster by NRA supporters.
They had worked for seven years to pass a bill requiring a waiting period for all handgun purchases so that the buyers’ backgrounds could be checked for criminal or mental-health problems. ” Simpson laughed at how willing the “elitist” press was to swallow anything negative about small, rural places like Wyoming or After the state dinner hosted by Jiang Zemin and his wife, Wang Yeping, he and I took turns conducting the People’s Liberation Army Band. Hillary and I said that we Americans had to make the most of this opportunity to keep making our own country better and to spread the benefits and share the burdens of the twenty-first–century world.
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