That night, in a televised address from the Oval Office, I made one last pitch for public support for the plan, saying it woul Elizabeth Dole gave an impressive and effective nominating speech for her husband, leaving the podium to speak in a conversational way as she walked among the delegates. med forces; drumming up support for another minimum wage increase at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worke While we had occasional disputes over trade in wheat and timber and over salmon-fishing rights, our friendship was broad and deep.
After our convention, the polls showed Al Gore had come from behind to hold a narrow lead, and I accompan Among the attendees were my old law school professor Burke Marshall and his friend Nicholas Katzenbach, who had done so much to advance civil rights in the Kennedy Justice Department. To bring me on, my friends Harry and Linda Bloodworth Thomason produced a short film entitled “The Man from Hope. It had flashes of eloquence, it was clear, it said we were going to reduce the deficit while increasing critical inves
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