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In late January, I had received a moving letter from Bill Ziff of New York, a businessman I’d never met but whose son was a friend of mine. I was wrong. ” I also said I knew three things about Al Gore: he had had a more positive impact on our country as vice president than any of his predecessors; h I decided to delay the decision until after I put the details of the economic plan before the people and the Congress.

erest rates far higher than they should have been during the economic downturn that preceded my election. It was a powerful reminder of the fragile and fleeting nature of life. And George Stephanopoulos had kept notes of the ones that had worked best on the stump during the primary campaign. TheNew York Times had just published an editorial saying historians were beginning to say I was a politician with grea