On the second, Kenneth Starr appeared in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on behalf o Italian evangelical from Philadelphia who was perhaps the only white preacher in America who could keep up with Jesse. Castro stuck out his hand and I shook it, the first President to do so in more than forty years. Venezuela was our number one oil supplier and had always made more petroleum available to the United States when we needed it, from World War II to the Gulf War.
He would turn out to be one of my best appointments, probably the finest secretary of defense since General George Marshall. As we celebrated her victory at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, Bush and Gore were neck and neck. On the twenty-third, I visited Naila, a small village near Jaipur. Compared with Williams and Margolies-Mezvinsky, Thornton had an easy vote.
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