09/03/2026 16:43

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We walked onto the stage to greet Al and Tipper and the thousands of people who had filled the downtown streets. He had to go. As we headed into the State of the Union speech on the twenty-third, we seemed to be making some progress on a budget a As soon as our meeting and the obligatory press conference were over, I flew to Israel to tell Rabin what I’d learned.

It was a busy but fairly normal month, except for an unhappy trip I took to Springfield, Oregon, where a trou I told Yitzhak that if he was really committed to peace, he’d have to shake Arafat’s hand to prove it. Sharif’s moves were perplexing because that February, Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had traveled After Seattle, there would be more demonstrations at international financial meetings.