ban all over again, risking the failure of the whole bill, and putting them at risk of losing their seats if they voted for it. This was about power, about something the House Republican leaders did because they could, and because they wanted to pursue an agenda I opposed and had blocked. I also felt bad that Vernon Jordan had been caught up in the maelstrom. Traditionally, the job of FEMA director was given to a political supporter of the President who wanted some plum position but who had had no experience with emergencies.
He wasn’t the only Vietnam combat veteran in Congress who felt that way. The thirty-three democratically elected leaders of Canada, Central and South America, and the Caribbean were t e state’s moderate and traditional conservative voters with the more extreme politics of the Republican Congress. ers who were deeply vested in finding something we’d done wrong, or at least in continuing the torment.
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