After the Daley announcement we finally flew off to Martha’s Vineyard. George got angry, saying Bernie was paranoid and it would never happen. o to follow Henry Cisneros at HUD; Federico Peña to replace Hazel O’Leary at Energy; Rodney Slater, the federal h budget on the backs of the poor, and even supporting my position on a couple of foreign policy issues.
In the next eight years, and even after I left office, more people would mention it to me than any other bill I signed. It was ugly, and uncertain. When it ended, more than eighty people had died, including twenty-five children; only nine survived. Even if I had enjoyed more balanced press coverage, the voters probably would have had a hard time sorting out what I had accomplished in all the flurry of activity.
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