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The first person I mentioned was Richard Dean, a forty-nine-year-old Vietnam veteran who had worked for the Social Security Administration for twenty-two years. ility benefits for children born with spina bifida as a result of their fathers’ exposure to Agent Orange during the war. It’s true that the overwhelming focus of the campaign had been on domestic issues; our economic troubles demanded that. desta, an old friend from the Duffey campaign, as staff secretary; Katie McGinty, Al Gore’s choice for our environmenta

Al Gore helped me a lot in the early days, encouraging me to keep making hard decisions and put them behind me, and giving me a continuing crash course in how Washington works. The Middle East peace process was shaken again in the first weeks of March when, on successive days, a ” Therefore, Dole said, his responsibility was “to bring our party together, to reach out to try to attract independent and Perot supporters to put up our own agenda. The Starr report had already been criticized for omitting one big piece of evidence helpful to me: Monica Lewinsky’s adamant assertion that I never asked her to lie.