13/02/2026 22:09

---

The Republicans seemed to have reverted to the theme they had trumpeted since 1992: I was a person without character who could not be trusted. On November 13, with the existing CR scheduled to expire at midnight, the negotiators met one more time to try to resolve our differences before the government shutdown. He refused; I suspected that he wanted to send the videotape to Congress, where it could be released without getting him into more hot water. Most of our work lay in the future, in helping with the immensely difficult task of resolving the tough issues,

But it would all count for nothing unless Al Gore and I were effective in our acceptance speeches. o Medicare; and a new pension initiative, USA Accounts, which would take 11 percent of the surplus to provide tax credits to My cabinet’s honest and very different reactions gave me a direct sense of what was going on in conversations all across America. dence, which lay beside a placid lake inside the compound that housed China’s most important leaders.