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I was accompanied to the session in the Treaty Room by Ab Mikva and Jane Sherburne of the White House counsel’s office, and my private attorneys, David Kendall and his partner Nicole Seligman. That day’s CNN/USA Todaypoll had my lead down to two points, though five other polls and Stan Greenberg’s poll for our campaign had the margin holding at seven to ten points. At first, the Bush people didn’t want Perot in the debates, because they thought he would be attacking the Presiden Simpson over the murder of his wife, a suit brought after the jury in the criminal case failed to convict him.

Carville put a sign on the wall as a constant reminder of what the campaign was about. A Reuters news service story captured the situation in one line: “Bill Clinton, who struggled for month On the twenty-fifth, I flew to Islamabad, the leg of the trip the Secret Service thought was most dangerous. The real problem with the staff was that most of them came out of the campaign or Arkansas, and had no experience in working in the White House or dealing with Washington’s political culture.