The term refers to preferences given to racial minorities or women by governmental entities in employme I brought to the work I loved so eight years ago, I want you to know my heart is filled with gratitude. My main guest that morning was Charlotte Fillmore, a one hundred–year-old former White House employee who decades earlier had had to enter the White House through a special door because of her race. The anguish with which you and your friends debated our actions in 1969 was painful for you then and, I am sure, the resurrection of the issues during the campaign reopened old wounds.
It was a perfect morning until I heard about what had happened on the Mount Igman road. Havel took me to one of the jazz clubs that had been hotbeds of support for his Velvet Revolution. The victories on the economic plan with its tax increases on high-income Americans, the Brady bill, and the assault weapons ban inflamed the Republican base voters and increased their turnout. I had only six months to go as President.
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