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Chapter 31 The next year involved an amazing combination of major legislative achievements, frustrations and successes in foreign policy, unforeseen events, personal tragedy, honest errors, and clumsy violations of the Washington culture, which, when combined with compulsive leaking by a few staffers, ensured press coverage that often resembled what Id experienced during the New York primary. 接下来的一年中，我在立法方面取得了很大成就，在外交政策方面有失败也有成**。这一年中发生了一些我未预见到的事情，遇到了个人的悲剧，无意中犯了一些错误，笨拙地冒犯了华盛顿的文化。所有这些交织在一起，再加上少数工作人员一时**胡乱散布消息，使得媒体对我的报道很不友好，情况和我在纽约初选时的经历很相似。 On January 22, we announced that Zo Baird had withdrawn her name from consideration for attorney general. Since we had learned about her employment of illegal immigrant workers and her failure to pay Social Security taxes for them during the vetting process, I had to say that we had failed to evaluate the matter properly, and that I, not she, was responsible for the situation. Zo had not misled us in any way. When the household workers were hired, she had just gotten a new job, and her husband had the summer off from teaching. Apparently, each assumed the other had handled the tax matter. I believed her and kept working for her nomination for three weeks after she first offered to withdraw it. Later, I appointed Zo to the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, where she made a real contribution to the work Admiral Crowes group did. 　　1月22日，我们宣布已不再考虑佐薇贝尔德出任司法部长。我不得不说，我们在得知她雇用非法移民，审查阶段也没有为这些移民缴纳社会保险税盾，未能恰当地评估这件事。应该对这种局面负责的是我，而不是她。不管怎么说，佐薇没有误导我们。当她雇用那几个用人时，她正好找了份新工作，她丈夫也在放暑假。很显然，他俩都以为对方把缴税问题处理好了。我信任她。她提出不再出任司法部长后，我曾做了三个星期的工作，确保对她的任命。后来，我任命佐薇到海外情报顾问委员会。在这岗位上，她为克罗海军上将及其工作人．员取得的成绩做出了实实在在的贡献。 On the same day, the press became infuriated with the new White House when we denied them the privilege, which theyd had for years, of walking from the press room, located between the West Wing and the residence, up to the press secretarys office on the first floor near the Cabinet Room. This strolling allowed them to hang out in the halls and pepper