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It seemed to me that we didn’t have much to lose, and I always preferred failure in a worthy effort to inaction for fear of failure. ad nearly destroyed his presidency, and Nixon and Carter never even got their bills out of committee. ” I said that the people who would spend $10 million upon receiving that letter should support the Republican plan; everyone else should “stick with us and keep the prosperity going. d the mounting casualties among people in Arkansas whose principal sin was that they had known Hillary and me before I became President.

All I could do was to keep searching for common ground, keep trying to temper the bitter partisanship in Washington, and keep doing my best as President. During August, I also had to announce a major disappointment: the United States would not be able to sign the international treaty banning land mines. By mid-month, I was back at work in the White House, proposing legislation to ban discrimination based on genetic screening. d I in the snow at our Park Avenue house, 1961 At a picnic with friends, including Carolyn Yeldell, David Leopoulos, Ron