Jack was convinced that if we didn’t drop the ban, the NRA would beat a lot of Democrats by terrifying gun owners. We were determined to use the rapid-response team to turn the Republican attacks back on them. After Mack told me what had happened, Hillary called me from Little Rock. And like Levon Helm, I had come to love it.
The people in the crowd and millions like them had done their part. Governor Bob Casey, whom I admired for his tenacity in running three times before he won, had been very critical of me. I used the occasion to push the Middle-Class Bill of Rights and my proposal to increase the minimum wage by 90 cents over two years, from $4. In mid-July, Serb forces again attacked armed and unarmed Kosovars, beginning a summer of aggression that would force 300,000 more Kosovar Albanians to leave their homes.
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