adequate space for the enormous number of press people from all over the world who wanted to cover it. Ashcroft wasn’t alone in completely politicizing the confirmation process. After talking to Noor, who assured me that he wanted to come, and that they would be fine in whatever guest quarters were available, I told Hussein we could use all the help we could get. A young boy had recently approached me and offered to tell me a joke; as he said, “Once you become President, it’s hard to find a joke you can tell in public.
When friends went to his apartment, they found in his typewriter the beginning of a letter to me that included suggested language for the inaugural speech. ron of diverse ethnic provinces, which had been held together by the iron will of Marshal Tito; and wou wer home mortgages and lower interest rates on things like car payments, credit card purchases, and student loans. By then our campaign, chaired by Peter Knight, was well organized, and it was working closely with the White House through Doug Sosnick and Harold Ickes, who had overseen our convention organization.
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