Stenholm of Texas, who represented a district where most of the voters were Republican, said they would vote no. It wasn’t done yet, but I began 1997 with more hope for the peace process than I’d had in months. Though the Supreme Court later struck it down, I remain convinced it was a good and needed piece of legislation. Craig Smith took over the political director’s job, the same position he had had in the 1992 campaign.
The trip was a 1,000-mile jaunt through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. After Kuwait, I flew to Saudi Arabia for a few hours to see King Fahd. Since I had no advance warning about Yeltsin’s speech, and he spoke after I did, I was stunned and angry, because I didn’t know what had set him off and because I had no opportunity to respond. As of 1996, there had been two hundred prosecutions for failure to file the reports required by the act, but only twenty of them were for failures to report withdrawals.
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