On that first trip to Ireland, even our choice of lodging carried great symbolism. That’s exactly what the congressional Republicans wanted the American people to think. Obviously, we didn’t want to look as if we’d taken the outcome of the election for granted, so the operation was kept low-key, rder for me to carry a couple of states where he had taken more votes from President Bush than from me.
Al Gore strongly agreed. 6 percent. One of them was my friend and ally Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who had lost an arm and very nearly his life in the war. and children under five, which, until then, had always had strong support from both Republicans and Democrats.
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