And many of the newly elected Republicans, especially in the House, didn’t share the Speaker’s enthusiasm for international affairs. Nonetheless, Hillary and I decided we should hire a lawyer. Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts asked him when he had reached those conclusions. The breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism in the Warsaw Pact nations raised the prospect that Europe might become democratic, peaceful, and united for the first time in history.
I hated to break the mood, but I tried to get them to listen to my plea not to take out resentment over past wrongs by mise, partly because the Duma was full of people who longed for the old order or an equally oppressive new one rooted in ultra-nationalism. They had all heard me say how much I loved that ice cream, which I had discovered when working in the McGovern campaign in 1972. The religious leaders who counseled me, visited me at the White House, or called to pray with me reminded me that, notwithstanding the condemnations I had received from some quarters, God is love.
Join the newsletter to receive news, updates, new products and freebies in your inbox.