People sided with Eastern employees and their union against Eastern's new owner, corporate pirate Frank Lorenzo. The episode was typical of labor's rebound in public esteem. Clinton pointed to me, the new kid on the block. The point about unions hadn't been central to the book, but Clinton had recalled it almost word for word. By the time Clinton got to my draft of his speech, he was just as friendly but less flattering.
People are sick of politics and partisanship.
They want unity. Hours later, when Clinton got up to the podium, he hardly used any of my draft. But he had won me over. Now, Bill Clinton has won re-election by a large margin. But Bill Clinton rose above it all, attaining a Georgetown diploma, a Rhodes scholarship, and a Yale law degree.