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I would have thought that even the press and my adversaries would take a time-out on the day of my mother’s death. He then made a show of withdrawing his army from Bosnia, while leaving armaments, supplies, and Bosnian Serb soldiers under the leadership of his handpicked commander, Ratko Mladic. Partisanship returned in early October, when the Senate rejected, on a party-line vote, my nomination of Judge Ronnie White to a federal district judgeship. I had relished having Paul there, because he had been with me since New Hampshire and he was smart, funny, combative, and effective.

to advance the politics of petty bickering and extreme partisanship they plainly deplored,” but to work together on “America’s mission. Despite the criticism, the reconstituted Travel Office provided the same services with fewer federal employees at lower costs to the press. After the farm event, my advance man, Mort Engleberg, had asked one of our hosts what he thought of me. I saw the rock quarry where he had worked and the cramped cell where he was kept when he wasn’t breaking rocks.