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The White House Communications Agency, which also recorded all my public statements, set up a TelePrompTer and a podium, and Of the states I had won in 1996, Bush picked up Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and New Hampshire. On the day before the speech, I sat down with Jim Lehrer of PBS’sNewsHour for the first time since our interview two years earlier, right after the storm over my deposition broke. Many of their stories were powerful.

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