When Congress left town, we took off for Martha’s Vineyard again. Assad didn’t want me even to finish the presentation. My own options were constrained by the dug-in positions I found when I took office. They also hated me because I was an apostate, a white southern Protestant who could appeal to the very people they had always taken for granted.
I did the same, and then we shook supporters’ hands for the better part of an hour before the four of us collapsed for a few hours’ sleep. viewing the record, making my case for Gore and Lieberman, and asking their support for well-qualified but still unconfirmed black judges. Therefore, he concluded, Israel should give up the territory, but only if doing so brought real peace and normal relations with its neighbors, including Syria. Just before I got up to speak, almost all the delegates raised their hands in support of removing the provision calling for the destruction of Israel from their charter.
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