09/03/2026 17:16

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My main guest that morning was Charlotte Fillmore, a one hundred–year-old former White House employee who decades earlier had had to enter the White House through a special door because of her race. I thought America was about building a more perfect union, widening the circle of freedom and opportunity, and strengthening the bonds of community across the lines that divide us. ” If Gore had been ahead in the vote count and Bush behind, there’s not a doubt in my mind that the same Supreme Court would have voted 9–0 to count the votes. For the second time in less than twenty-four hours, I had accepted advice that ran counter to my instincts.

cing the budget, passing the campaign finance reform bill, and completing the process of welfare reform by providing more incentiv e South Lawn of the White House on Monday, the thirteenth, and that because the PLO had renounced vio Helen Thomas of United Press International, the senior White House correspondent, asked me: “If you had it to do over again, wou ” Hillary and I ended our day by returning to Belfast for the official lighting of the city’s Christm