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After reviewing more than forty candidates, I settled on three: my Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, wh ” It was a sincere compliment and a funny one, since Hillary had taken a lot of good-natured ribbing for saying she had had imaginary conversations with Mrs. nt, contracts for products and services, access to small-business loans, and admissions to universities. I had been inspired by a statement made in late October by the archbishop of Chicago, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, a tireless advocate for social justice whom Hillary and I knew and admired very much.