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He was also a loyal friend of more than forty years, and I knew I could count on him not to shield me from diverse points of view and sources of information. Newt Gingrich had a more positive response, saying he didn’t want to get rid of affirmative action until he came up with something to replace it that still gave a “helping hand. Hillary, Chelsea, and I spent New Year’s in Hilton Head at Renaissance Weekend, as we had been doing every year for nearly a decade. e to come up with a comprehensive health-care plan, working with Ira Magaziner as the lead staff perso

Hillary and I had become friends of Justice Blackmun and his wife, Dotty, through Renaissance Weekend. On the thirteenth, my nominee for attorney general, Zoë Baird, got into hot water when it came out t ighway administrator, to succeed Peña as secretary of transportation; Aida Alvarez to become head of the Small Bu They got a cordial reception, as did the Bush people.