10/02/2026 02:08

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I ended the speech with personal thanks and a personal plea: My friends, fifty-four years ago this week I was born in a summer storm to a young widow in a small southern town. In the last week of the campaign, at Governor Gray Davis’s request, I flew to California for two days of campaigning for the tick In my remarks to the press, I assured the people of Israel that he had done nothing to compromise their security and said they should be very proud of him. I framed most of them and hung them in my private hall off the Oval Office.

Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz wrote an article pointing out the way the RTC report had been buried, and Lars-Erik Nelson, a columnist for the Helmut Kohl took us to visit his hometown, Ludwigshafen, before I flew to Ramstein Air Base to see our troops, many of whom would soon be leaving the military in the post–Cold War downsizing. Mercifully, it was over before long, and we walked downstairs to start the ceremony. Like the airmen at Khobar Towers, our sailors had been killed in a very different conflict from the kind they had been trained to fight.