ch brought inflation and the sale of state-owned assets at low prices to a new class of ultra-rich businessmen c I’m amazed that we found as much material as we did in a timely fashion. While the chemistry between the teams was good, the same could not be said of Arafat and Barak. The middle class had been shafted in the eighties, and Bush had been crippled by signing a gas-tax increase.
On December 21, I named Hazel O’Leary, an African-American utility executive from Northern States Power Company in Minnesota, to be secretary of energy, and Dick Riley, to be secretary of education. My one-sentence take on the campaign was a line from a gospel song I’d heard in Anthony Mangun’s church: “The darker the night, the sweeter the victory. This was the result of my own early mistakes, the first two years of intensely negative press coverage, the loss of Congress in ’94, the fi On June 21, I transmitted to Congress a welfare reform bill designed by Donna Shalala, Bruce Reed, and their topflight policy people to make welfare “a second chance, not a way of life.
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