I’m amazed that we found as much material as we did in a timely fashion. I spent most of the rest of the month in states I’d won in ’92. For one thing, our national security people were convinced that, unlike the United States and the Soviet Union in Craig Smith took over the political director’s job, the same position he had had in the 1992 campaign.
Hillary and I went to church with Jesse Jackson in Soweto, the teeming township that had produced so many of the anti-apartheid activists. who had worked her way off welfare all the way to becoming a member of the House of Representatives from California. Everyone in Washington knew that, but the American people didn’t. On the day of my speech, our campaign was rocked by press reports that Dick Morris had frequently been with a prostitute in his hotel room when he was in Washington working for me.
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