It was the only sensible course for him; he didn’t have time to campaign against me and be majority leader, and the positi The whole black community in America was in an uproar and expected me to do something about it. For now, we had taken a good shellacking. tions in Guatemala—all these seemed to me to be signs of a new era of democratic progress I was committed to support.
d retained one of my former White House counsels on his legal team, along with two prominent Republican lawyers. In August, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest at his summer retreat on the Black Sea by conspirators intent on staging a coup d’état. I didn’t blame him, but I knew we weren’t on the verge of World War III. Instead, the interview turned into a session on the billing records.
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