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Senator Lauch Faircloth was even worse, scoffing at the notion that Williams and Thomases could have had so many phone conversations about Vince Foster just to share their grief. But Hillary, Tony, and Chelsea preferred our old standby, pinochle. At the rate we were going, our living standards, which usually doubled every twenty-five years, wouldn’t do so again for another one hundred years. Back in Washington, Hillary and I hosted our first state dinner, for South Korean president Kim Yong-Sam.

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