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But the economy alone didn’t do it. Somehow he managed to be understated and intense at the same time. Starr appealed Woods’s decision to the Eighth Circuit Court and requested that the judge be thrown off the case for bias. Then came the keynote speeches by Senator Bill Bradley, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and Governor Zell Miller.

I had asked Harold Ickes and Mickey Kantor to help deal with the controversy. Because the world was waiting for the ceremony and we were already late, there was no time to change the map. When Zell Miller was elected to the Senate in 2000, Georgia had become more conservative and so had he. Bob and Mike wore me out in tough encounters before each debate.