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Republicans and the media pundits thought Democrats would lose up to 30 House seats and 4 to 6 Senate seats. Instead, Democrats won seats in the House, the first time since 1822 that a President's party had done so in his second term.
共和黨和媒體權威人士認為民主黨會在國會中失去30多個席位，在參議院中也會失去4到6個席位。然而，民主黨在國會中贏得了席位，這是自1822年以來，在總統第二任期中其所在黨第一次出現這種情況。
Another surprise soon followed. Three days later, Friday, November 6, Senator Moynihan taped an interview announcing that he would not run for a fifth term. The interview was to be aired on Sunday morning, but the news leaked early.
另一個驚喜緊隨而來。三天之后，11月6號，星期五，參議員莫伊尼漢在在一段錄音采訪中宣布他將不會參加第五次連任競選。這段采訪將會在周日播放，但是消息被提前走漏了。
Late on Friday night, the White House operator patched through a call from Representative Charlie Rangel, the veteran Congressman from Harlem and a good friend.
星期五晚上，白宮接線員接進查理.蘭格爾代表的電話，查理.蘭格爾是來自哈林區的一位老國會議員，也是我的一個好朋友。
"I just heard that Senator Moynihan announced he is going to retire. I sure hope you'll consider running because I think you could win," he said.
“我剛聽說參議員莫伊尼漢宣布他將退休了。我真得很希望你會考慮競選，因為我覺得你可以贏，”他說道。
"Oh, Charlie," I said. "I'm honored you would think of me, but I'm not interested, and besides, we have a few other outstanding matters to resolve right now." "I know," he said. "But I'm really serious. I want you to think about it."
“哦，查理，”我說，“你認為我可以我真得感覺很自豪，但是我不感興趣。而且，我們現在有幾件別的更重要的事情亟待解決。”他說，“我知道，但是我是說真得，我希望你好好想想考慮一下。”
He may have been serious, but I thought the idea of running for Senator Moynihan's seat was absurd, although this wasn't the first time it had come up. A year earlier, at a Christmas reception at the White House, my friend Judith Hope, the chair of the New York Democratic Party, mentioned that she didn't think Moynihan would run again. "If he doesn't," she said, "I wish you would run." I had thought Judith's comment was farfetched then and I still thought so.
他也許是認真的，但我認為去競選參議員莫伊尼漢的席位的這個主意，對我來說有點荒謬，盡管這種想法不是第一次被提出，一年前，在白宮的一次圣誕接待會上，我的朋友兼紐約民主黨主席朱迪思·霍普就對我說，她認為莫伊尼漢不會再參加競選了，“如果他不競選了，”她說，“我希望你會去競選。”我當時認為朱迪思的想法有點不著邊際，我現在也仍然認為是那樣。
I had other things on my mind.
因為我心里還有別的事情。
