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It was clear to both of us that Starr was trying to create a firestorm to force me from office. I then noted that we’d had some pretty good non-veteran Presidents, including FDR, Wilson, and Lincoln, who opposed the Mexican War. orsements of two congressmen, but Bush had the backing of both the party establishment and the religious right. On August 28, the thirty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.

lestinians, with Yasser Arafat, Jim Wolfensohn of the World Bank, and representatives of the European Union, the Middle East, and Asia. Only the margin of defeat was in doubt. The Saudis didn’t want him back, but bin Laden finally left Sudan in mid-1996, apparently still on good terms with Turabi. In so doing, I had hurt more than my family and my administration.