After Notre Dame, I went out west. Dick’s main advice was that I had to practice the politics of “triangulation,” bridging the divide between Republicans and Democrats and taking the best ideas of both. Vernon and Ann Jordan had arranged for us to stay on the edge of Oyster Pond in a cottage that belonged to Robert McNamara. But I said we could improve our capacity to prevent such events and to break up the networks of money and national support that made them possible.
y zone, which kept the Serbs from bombing Bosnian Muslims; and to maintain a fire-free zone around Sarajevo and other populated areas. I thought it was the moment to do so. The positive argument was “compassionate conservatism,” giving America the same good conditions we had provided, but with a smaller government and a bigger tax cut. and worried about the traffic congestion as a result of the city’s growing prosperity and expansion.
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