I had worked for years to understand how political leaders’ decisions play out in people’s lives. Al came over late one night, at eleven, to minimize the chance of being seen by the press. I thought Ruff’s best moment was when he caught Asa Hutchinson red-handed in a telling misrepresentation of fact. Thousands of men and boys were gathered in a soccer field and murdered en masse.
The Hamas bombings had made a Likud victory in the election more likely. In a private moment I held his arm, stared straight at him, and told him I also had a chance to make an a Many of the pundits were predicting disaster for the Democrats. I ended the speech with personal thanks and a personal plea: My friends, fifty-four years ago this week I was born in a summer storm to a young widow in a small southern town.
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