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The next day we left for Martha’s Vineyard on our annual vacation. On May 2, I announced that, at long last, I had reached a balanced budget agreement with Speaker Gingrich and Senator Lott and the congressional negotiators for both parties. Nevertheless, it felt more and more as if the investigative stories were being prepared on the basis of “shoot first, ask questions later. What I regret the most, other than my conduct, is having misled all of them.

Bush and I got one minute to respond. Bill Daley and our whole team had won a great economic and political victory for America, but like the budget, it came Before the Voting Rights Act, there were only 300 black elected officials at any level, and just three African-American congressmen. One of the men, Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid, had headed Saddam’s secret effort to develop weapons of mass destruction and would supply valuable i