’s plans for a Poor People’s Campaign, setting up a tent encampment on the Mall, called Resurrection City, to highlight the problems of poverty. On the regulatory front, we were outgunned on two big issues. At the time, the conventional wisdom among business and political leaders was that economic growth required constantly increasing electricity production. It wasn’t until I became President that he took me off the tricycle and put me in a pickup truck.
A conversation with Reverend John Miles’s brother made me more uncertain. Nineteen sixty-eight was one of the most tumultuous and heartbreaking years in American history. This news breaking in 1993 came as a shock to Mother, who by then had been battling cancer for some time, but she took it all in stride. We kept the senior centers open longer and provided state and federal money to buy electric fans, rent air conditioners, and help pay electric bills.
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