09/03/2026 07:43

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I asked Dole, based on his years of experience, whether politics and politicians in Washington were more or less honest than they had been thirty years earlier. The passport story dragged out all month. It was also damaging to the presidency and the American people. Almost 80 percent disapproved of the release of my grand jury videotape, and overall approval of the Congress had dropped to 43 percent.

Finally, on the last day of the year, I signed the treaty by which America joined the International Criminal Court. and it was beginning to come out, even without a bogus lawsuit and a special prosecutor to do the digging. On the fourth day of my trip, I had the opportunity to address the Indian parliament. In a speech to more than thirty thousand people in the shadow of the brightly lit Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, I p