When I got to Memphis, I was among friends. It was hard to imagine that even the most paranoid right-wingers could think that a country girl from Arkansas who loved the races was subversive. I used the occasion to push the Middle-Class Bill of Rights and my proposal to increase the minimum wage by 90 cents over two years, from $4. They all cautioned restraint, because Yeltsin was stretching the limits of his constitutional authority, and because he might lose.
In the end, I decided to ask Al Gore. During the visit he promised to push Sinn Fein to make concrete positive decisions. Though the charges against Gingrich were much more serious, the Republican whip, Tom DeLay, complained Carolyn had been our assistant at the Governor’s Mansion and had come to Washington to help us with our personal papers and correspondence.
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