Jay Dickey, an Arkansas Republican, told Mack McLarty he might lose his seat on the Appropriations Committee if he didn’t vote to impeach me. And he had lots of cover: both Arkansas senators, David Pryor and Dale Bumpers, were strong supporters of the plan. Still, I was determined to bring more asylum seekers to the United States safely, and eventually to restore President Aristide. However, that would have rendered the deposition useless.
I knew I’d have an opportunity to win some more victories as Congress wound down, but I wasn’t so sure about the Middle East. After all the blood we’d spilled over minor issues, this was a fight worth making. The speech was scheduled for the nineteenth, the same day my defense opened in the Senate. ” In the partisan wars that had raged since the mid-1960s, neither side had been completely blameless.
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