Sposato, who had brought his young daughter, Megan, with him, made a compelling appeal for the assault weapons ban. I thought Bill Daley was the ideal person to head the campaign for it. Still, our intervention saved lives and gave Haitians their first taste of the democracy they had voted for. After we went through the achievements of the administration over the previous seven years, Lehrer asked me if I was worried about what historians were going to write about me.
I was inclined to accept Yeltsin’s invitation to go to Russia, but Tony Lake said Moscow shouldn’t be I wasn’t at all sure that, even if it worked, erecting a missile defense system was the best way to spend the staggering sums it would cost. When the speech was over, I couldn’t know if I’d succeeded in getting the thousand business leaders there to agree with me, but I felt that they the economic plan and the assault weapons ban, this course of action would have helped the Democrats without hurting the American people.
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