I went on doing my job, and I stonewalled, denying what had happened to everyone: Hillary, Chelsea, my staff and cabinet, my friends in Congress, members of the press, and the American people. Frank then asked him why he waited until after the election to exonerate me on these charges, when he had submitted his report “with a lot of negative stuff about the President” before the election. But let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world. During the State of the Union on February 4, I first asked the Congress to conclude the unfinished business of our country: balan
oach of the Republicans—they were opposed to the test ban treaty, the climate change treaty, the ABM Treaty, and the International Criminal Court. And he, too, was identified with the New Democrat wing of the party. Mandela gave me clear instructions: We were doing a good cop/bad cop routine. I announced my support for Mitchell’s bill the next day, and we began to shop it to moderate Republicans, but it was no use.
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