Perot's Real Wild Card

摘要

A year ago Richard Lamm, the three-term former governor of Colorado, spent the night with his wife in the Lincoln Bedroom, guests of their old friend Bill Clinton, whom Lamm says he endorsed earlier than any other national Democrat did back in 1991. "It's 12:30 or 1 at night, and Bill Clinton asks me and Dottie, 'What do you know about the Chilean social-security system?' " Lamm recalled last week. The answer was zip, nada. "Now this is my full-time thing-figuring out how we're going to handle the retirement of the baby boomers-so boy did I feel like a dumb ass."