Ever since he said that, I had thought of all the blood that had been shed, all the energy wasted, by people obsessed with keeping us divided over that one-tenth of a percent. I understood how it had happened. Our staffs got as close as they could to an agreement, with Mickey Kantor’s deputy, Charlene Barshefsky, driving such a hard bargain the Japanese called her “Stonewall. e projects still marked the American landscape; and Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps.
I had visited General Shelton not long before at Fort Bragg, after a plane crash at nearby Pope Air Force Base had killed several servicemen. I couldn’t believe the Far Right would run the gay-bashing ads in the wake of Shepard’s death, but they always needed an enemy. re going to ask, ‘Visa? MasterCard?’ ” We let that one go, but eventually we did come up with more than 150 budget cuts. Shara was subjected to intense criticism at home.
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