- There in the lower left-hand corner of the paper was a photo of Bill. - First, we stayed just across Canal Street from the French Quarter in the Jung Hotel, on one of the higher floors. - for jogging through the French Quarter in the early morning. - While Mother was in New Orleans, I was in the care of my grandparents. - We ate in the kitchen at a table next to the window. - We would take a paper bag with sandwiches for supper, and I would sleep in the backseat of the car. - He said it was in the closet. - They were screaming at each other in their bedroom in the back of the house. - Before I could get up he butted me in the head. - Apparently the first owner had been in the gambling business. - and, of course, a new extended family in the Clinton clan.. - Just ahead of Bert and me in the line was a woman who was visibly afraid of the water. - In the early fifties Roy ran for the legislature and won. - He had been part of the GI reform effort after World War II, although he wasn’t in the service himself. - It was all the money in the world to me then. - Along with the excitement of a new baby in the house was the thrill of the new TV.. - Elvis Presley began to make movies in the late fifties. - In the ’92 campaign, some members of my staff nicknamed me Elvis. - On Friday nights there was always a dance in the gym of the local YMCA. - He slugged me in the jaw as hard as he could. - We lived in the second house on the street. - I got the role of the nephew, which Cary Grant played in the movie. - I detest selfishness, but see it in the mirror every day. - On Wednesday, July 24, we went to the White House to meet the President in the Rose Garden. - A friend took a photo for me, and later we found film footage of the handshake in the Kennedy Library.. - O ne other memorable event happened to me in the summer of 1963. - There were seven of us in the class. - After class, all the students in the annex where our class met walked back to the main building. - Georgetown had the best academic reputation in the city. - In the next four years Tommy would introduce me to Baltimore. - I chose German because I was interested in the country and impressed by the clarity and precision of the language.. - He was expelled from Yale and went to work in the Texas oil fields. - In the South, the dark side of the scales has always been the bigger problem. - At the start of the campaign, I was definitely a second stringer in the Holt Generation.. - One county courthouse in the Mississippi Delta still had “white” and “colored” designations on the doors of the public restrooms. - In the fall he won with 54.5 percent of the vote. - In the 1980s, like so many southern conservatives he became a Republican. - After that, he made his mischief in the background. - The main mailing lists were kept in the basement. - Dodd’s son, Chris, now represents Connecticut in the Senate. - Standing in the shadows, I saw what a light she was in his life. - Looking back, I see I probably shouldn’t have run in the first place. - It was the only interesting artifact in the whole house. - Diplomacy in the Far East. - The end of the draft in the 1970s made the point moot.. - Later in the fall, Daddy had gotten sick again. - He was in the hospital for a while, but he wanted to come home to die. - It was raining on the day of the funeral. - He was not buried in the rain.. - There was a nice write-up in the paper, even a laudatory editorial. - Loan shot the man in the head in broad daylight on the street in Saigon. - It was a good metaphor for the confusion of the time.. - it was nearly three in the morning in Washington. - We were not yet in the New South of the seventies, but we did have sense enough not to go backward.. - In the spring he received me in his office on Park Avenue. - There were no available spots in the National Guard or reserves. - and Eli Segal, whom I met in the McGovern campaign, became chief of staff of the Clinton-Gore campaign.. - embassy in London on October 15, in support of the main event back in the United States. - It was the most elegant part of the house. - We had a small, scraggly walled-in yard in the back.. - Frank was writing a thesis on the epic Long March in the Chinese civil war. - Texas was ranked first and Arkansas second in the national polls. - They were playing for the national championship in the last regular-season game of the one hundredth year of college football. - He said, “I expect to see both teams score in the second half. - bench, may win in the last quarter. - I thought he was crazier than the two guys in the bar. - When I got in, there were four other men in the car. - On Vietnam, Clifford noted dryly, “It’s really one of the most awful places in the world to be involved.” The dinner was a heady experience for me, especially since I kept my feet on the ground in Gene McCarthy’s shoes.. - The man and woman in the other car seemed to be dazed but unhurt. - He told me fascinating stories about the fear they lived with and the joy he and his classmates found in the work of the movement.. - I was going home to Arkansas, and in the meantime preferred politics to the law review. - I enjoyed the drive west, including a visit in the Grand Canyon. - The nicest thing about the place was the fireplace in the living room. - Apparently my work in Connecticut redeemed me in the eyes of the McGovern campaign. - There were a lot of complaints about the disarray in the campaign. - In the last week of the campaign, though all was lost, I had two memorable experiences. - We wrote a trial based on the characters in the movie Casablanca. - It was easy to understand why he had been so effective in enforcing civil rights rulings in the South. - I flew there in the first week of May. - It’s beautiful and romantic there in the late spring. - Sometimes guests would play touch football in the front yard. - he couldn’t make a living in the hills. - Hot Springs, where I grew up, was the biggest town in the south end of the district. - Arkansas’ Third District comprised twenty-one counties in the northwest quadrant of the state and was one of America’s most rural congressional districts. - seven northern counties in the Ozarks. - eight counties in the Arkansas River valley below. - and four in the Ouachita Mountains in the southwest. - and in the river valley towns of Russellville and Dardanelle in the southeast part of the district. - He spent a memorable night with Hillary and me in the White House. - Unlike Bo Forney, he spent the night in the Lincoln Bedroom. - Somehow in the travel, I lost five of them. - Folks in the river valley didn’t know that until Steve Smith and I told them.. - I got the endorsement of the Arkansas Gazette, the state’s largest newspaper, plus several papers in the district. - He carried it 38–34, but it was the only township in the county he won.. - in the fall, White-Collar Crime again and Constitutional Law. - There was a FOR SALE sign in the yard. - in from the road at two or three in the morning. - My base in the Third District seemed secure. - Despite all that, there were still gaping holes in the organization. - One of the
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