If I later had to veto Republican budget bills, I wanted to do so after demonstrating a good-faith effort to make honorable compromises. In the face of all the character attacks, I responded as I always did when my back was against the wall—I plowed on. He told Hillary he would “eat his hat” if it happened. Kerrey and I had worked together as governors, and I didn’t hold the tough things he had said in the campaign against him.
They wanted to know what their sons had died for and why we had changed course. In May, he had said his supporters would hit U. He kept promising “blockbuster” revelations, but they never materialized. After being reasonably quiet for most of 1994, things had begun to go wrong at the end of November, when Serb warplanes attacked Croatian Muslims in western Bosnia.
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