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Mike Espy had supported me through thick and thin in 1992. We would pray, read scripture, and discuss some things I had never really talked about before. oach of the Republicans—they were opposed to the test ban treaty, the climate change treaty, the ABM Treaty, and the International Criminal Court. Whether it would happen turned on four great questions: Would East and West Germany be reunited; would

But it took eight long years, and their grief still wasn’t over. a year to hand over Bush’s own contemporaneous notes relating to Iran-Contra, despite repeated requests to do so. It was more than enough to push all the doubts about me into the recesses of public consciousness, but, as I well knew, not enough to erase them. By the time I got back to Washington, it had been a long day, but an important one.