a tremendous lost opportunity one year later george h-letter w-letter bush perhaps trying to make up his previous mistake cheered all of us nominating clarence thomas to the supreme court. [applause] and i remember what happened to judge bork and i wanted to do something to make sure that didn't happen again so i registered a group with the irs the citizens committee to confirm clarence thomas to try to make sure they did not weasel out and hearing that what clarence thomas went through it was tough but all the way he answered every question i knew him from the department of education almost every conservative in town knew him and respected him and admired him. and then at the end of the hearing when everything was almost finished, all of a sudden a surprise witness , anita hill. a young woman who had worked in his office for several different assignments following him from the department of education. she did not allege physical assault the inappropriate verbal conversations. that would be called boorish behavior but it was earth shattering at the time. the media immediately started