"Connerly's account of the campaign for Prop 209 [the California ballot initiative that abolished state-sponsored affirmative action] does contain one important revelation: he confirms an allegation made in Nicholas Lemann's recent book The Big Test that the passage of Prop 209 resulted from a compromise between opponents of affirmative action and the Clinton administration. Fearing that the issue might undermine Bill Clinton's re-election bid in California or even nationally, the White House made sure that the state Democratic Party and labor unions would not provide funding needed by the anti-Prop 209 forces...."