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ed to become a nuclear power, something I was determined to avoid and would need their help to accomplish. Nick came up to me and told me that he was on the board of theWashington Post and that he was ashamed of the paper’s coverage of Whitewater and th As I returned to Washington, I was looking forward to watching the Republicans try to keep their campaign pr The numbers didn’t look too bad for such a controversial issue, but they were, and they showed why Congress thought it was a dead-bang loser for them.

That night we had a “Call for Reunion” concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with a star-studded lineup including Diana Ros e big thing: on the twin issues that had constituted the casus belli of the cold war—democracy versus dictato We shook hands and talked as if nothing else in the world was going on. By contrast, William Henry Harrison gave the longest address in history, in 1841, speaking without a coat on a col