The race came down to Florida, after Gore won a narrow victory of 366 votes in New Mexico, one of several states that were closer than they would have been had Ralph Nader not been on the ballot. In a speech to more than thirty thousand people in the shadow of the brightly lit Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, I p I regretted his departure, but he was obviously under enormous stress and he needed time to work through his problems. I believed his selection would work precisely because it didn’t have the traditional kind of balance.
In August, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest at his summer retreat on the Black Sea by conspirators intent on staging a coup d’état. and after twenty-six years in political life, my name wasn’t on the ballot; wonderful because I got to vote for Hillary. Surely we had not reached the point where the only way to keep congressional seats safe was to leave the American people and police officers in greater danger. I was also asked to initial the pages as the official witness.
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