Just before the election, Bob Higgins, an ex-marine from Hillsboro, Ohio, sent me his Vietnam service me epublican and Democratic administrations told me that it was necessary to secure the White House from a bomb. We were making some headway on the economic front; in the last five months, over 950,000 more Americans had found work, about as many new jobs as the economy had produced in the previous three years. Therefore, the combination of tough spending cuts and tax increases necessary to halve the deficit seemed to be the wrong medicine for the present moment.
He told me he would prefer another job more suited to his business background. They were especially intense around the American embassy in Beijing, where Ambassador Sasser found himself besieged. Richard Arnold, I’m happy to say, is still serving on the Eighth Circuit and still plays an occasional round of golf with me. I knew how much her children, John and Caroline, and her companion, Maurice Tempelsman, would miss her.
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