Mark Penn said that if I spent the last days of the campaign doing that, instead of going to the larger states, I might not get a majority of the vote, for several reasons. Besides, he liked to play cards with me; we would have a smooth transition. You bet it is. On the other hand, hardly anybody knew of the problems with Lewis’s testimony, and D’Amato received a lot of publicit
I also used the occasion to urge congressional action on the anti-terrorism legislation that had been held up for more than a year. So was Helmut Kohl, who knew, as I did, that diplomacy could not succeed until the Serbs had sustained some serious losses on the ground. By the time I got to Moscow, several Democratic senators and President Carter had joined the Republicans and the press i By the time Al and I mentioned it, the FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department were all investigating each other for what they had or hadn’t done in the affair.
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