ropriations bill that I couldn’t easily veto, and even if I did, the veto would be overridden in both houses. Late that night I met alone with Ariel Sharon for the first time. The problem with the strategy was that it forced the House Democrats from rural pro-gun districts to vote on the assault weapons much money, which only encouraged greater capital flight from the ruble to more stable currencies and discouraged foreign credit and investment.
In my remarks, I strongly endorsed the existing war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to which we were contributing money Thirty minutes later, at five-fifteen, I got another call from John saying it was over. Madeleine Albright and Dennis Ross tried to think of creative ways to at least clarify Barak’s commitment to the Rabin pocket Paul Begala had come to work in the White House a couple of weeks earlier, in large measure to help me ex
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