because he and I had been close friends for twenty-five years and had worked together for the same causes. My last year, when I was supposed to be a lame duck, had resulted in the passage of a surprising number of the State of the Union recommendations. He knew we would bring more Haitians to the United States than the Bush administration had, and he didn’t want his people to drown. Some sharp disputes remained involving the new police force and the schedule and method of putting arms beyond use.
Leo Melamed, the Republican former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, on which agricultural Less than a week earlier, a church in Charlotte, North Carolina, had become the thirtieth black church to be burned in the previous eighteen months. During my Georgetown years, I was assistant clerk on Fulbright’s Foreign Relations Committee. suited to government and two days earlier he had cracked to reporters, “I wouldn’t live in a country whose government would hire me.
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