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He had a blunt but effective speaking style, and he was convincing a lot of Americans that, with his business acumen, financia Two nights later, on October 13, in the vice-presidential debate in Atlanta, Al Gore clearly got the better of Dan Quayle. I thought we at least had to defend Arkansas. tives of one member of our delegation, Congressman Peter King of New York, who had brought his mother home for the event.

We decided to send the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joe Ralston, to have dinner with the top Pakistani military commander at the time the attacks were scheduled. He was defeated after Missouri’s conservative senator John Ashcroft, who was in a tough fight for reelection against Governor Mel Carnahan, grossly distorted White’s record on the death penalty. John Major was hanging on in England, but was hurt by constant unfavorable comparison to his predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, something the Iron Lady did nothing to discourage. I was beginning to believe we might actually have an honest debate that would produce something close to universal coverage.