ed America to become a “collectivist, egalitarian, materialistic, race-conscious, hyper-secular, and socially permissive state. ssuing an executive order to prohibit discrimination against gays in federal civilian employment; sup Maya’s poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” riveted the crowd. had been expelled from his own country in 1991, had lost his citizenship in 1994, and had taken up residence in Sudan.
ut, almost half of all Americans over sixty-five relied on Social Security to live above the poverty line; the COLA cut would hurt them. They had even let me sing with the choir, always leaving the sheet music in Aspen, our family cabin, on Friday or Saturday so that I could review it in advance. On my last night in the now-barren Oval Office, I thought of the glass case I had kept on the coffee table between the two couches, just a few feet away. The late Bush-Perot tag-team attack on Arkansas had shaved two or three points off our high-water mark a few days before the election.
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