At some point, I asked Bentsen how much we’d have to reduce the deficit to rally the bond market. Late on Monday, January 12, 1998, Tripp phoned Starr’s office, described her secret taping of Lewinsky, and made arrangements to turn over those tapes. On the first day of the month, I went to a farm in Billings, Montana, to highlight the differences between my approach to agriculture and that of the Republicans in Congress. The people lived in several cabins, each of which had a trapdoor that led to a dugout from which they could fire on approaching authorities.
On the morning after my speech to the Palestinians, Netanyahu, Arafat, and I met at the Erez border cross The party leader, Le Kha Phieu, tried to use my opposition to the Vietnam War to condemn what the United States had done as an imperialist act. Newt sure didn’t want that, so, like Bob Dole, he would try to keep as much from happening before the midterm elections as possible. It helped to laugh about it.
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