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Before he became President, Abraham Lincoln suffered from debilitating episodes of depression. If Syria attacked Israel, the Israelis could win easily. June 4, 1967, he had to make an agreement that would not be subject to attack from forces within Syria whose support his son would need. On November 8, we got the living daylights beat out of us, losing eight Senate seats and fifty-four House seats, the largest defea

The next week, I vetoed the Republican welfare reform bill, because it did too little to move people from welfare to work and too much to hurt poor people and their children. In mid-month, Shimon Peres came to see me for the first time as prime minister, to reaffirm Israel’s intent Two of my Secret Service agents, who almost never said anything to me about politics, told me how glad they were to see the two of us in a positive discussion. ack for Starr, and a sweet triumph for all the other people whose lives and savings he had destroyed.