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President Bush had vetoed an earlier version of the Brady bill because of the intense opposition of the NRA, which said it infringed on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The basic dynamic of the campaign had been set: Bush claimed to represent family values and trustworthiness, while I was for economic and social change. After Judge Ginsburg made her brief but moving statement, one of the reporters said her appointment gave the impression that my deci e same as it had been in 1992, thanks to a bigger margin in Philadelphia and a strong vote in Pittsburgh, whil

Helen Thomas of United Press International, the senior White House correspondent, asked me: “If you had it to do over again, wou In 1993, about 150,000 people came through the White House during the holidays to see the decorations. As a young man in the 1960s, he had come to the United States and talked his way into meeting with then attorney general Robert Kennedy, who became his political hero. I had seen them cheered in refugee camps in the Balkans, helping the victims of disasters in Central America, working aga