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I accept it with a full heart and a joyous spirit. y guaranteeing a minimum of forty-eight hours of coverage to mothers and newborns; provided medical assista I was confident we would eventually reach an agreement, though it might take another government shutdown to get us there. The church hierarchy agreed with Bush’s opposition to abortion, but I was far closer to the Catholic positions on economic and social justice.

But the big story that night was the willingness of so many voters in both parties, according to exit polls, to desert their parties’ nominees to vote for Perot. He had served me well in the vice-presidential and cabinet selection processes and shared my basic foreign policy objectives. Usually I counted the days until we could get away for some family time; this year, though I knew we needed it, I wished that I was working around the clock instead. I asked him to think about it.