After my father’s death, my mother with her own hands cleared a small piece of rugged land. Historically, these meetings had been talkfests, with few meaningful policy commitments and little follow-up coming out of them. I had grown up in the hunting culture in which its influence was greatest and had seen the devastating impact the NRA had had on the ’94 congressional elections. The law made it a crime for a nominee to make a “material” misstatement, one that would affect the confirmation process.
We had invited more than 2,500 people to the event, which George Stephanopoulos and Rahm Emanuel had labored over. In its January 5 editorial calling for an independent counsel in Whitewater, theWashington Post explici We talked about when I decided to go into politics, where my family went to church and what it meant to me, why so many people still believed I Campaigning with my gubernatorial predecessors Dale Bumpers and David Pryor Campaigning for Congr
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