10/02/2026 07:29

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All told, in 1992, Vietnam veterans sent me five Purple Hearts, three Vietnam service medals, a combat infantry badge, and my fellow Arkansan’s Bronze Star. We’re all just passing through. It had become an issue since the cloning of Dolly the sheep in Scotland. Apparently, Arafat had thought the time to decide, five minutes to midnight, had finally come.

Tully was only forty-eight, an old-school political pro and a fine man we had all come to adore and depend on. After the first session, my people worried that I’d let Yeltsin harangue me the way Khrushchev had hectored Kennedy in their famous meeting in Vienna in 1961. I also endorsed the policy of requiring school uniforms for elementary and middle school students. Maybe I was pushing the Congress, the country, and the administration too hard.