hadn’t yet given up all my illusions that the inquiry would, in the end, follow a legitimate course. The timing and substance of the speech were opposed by many congressional Democrats and some members of my cabin , I worked out a deal on the prisoners with Netanyahu and Arafat, and we just kept plowing ahead until we finished. ” Arafat had chosen generous gestures to speak to the Israelis and tough words to reassure the doubters back home.
Many Republicans in the House had never voted to raise the debt limit and didn’t relish doing so now, so I had to take Gingrich’s threat seriously. It was Starr’s last, almost desperate attempt to break Hubbell and force him to say something damaging about Hillary or me. It wasn’t there. That afternoon, Leon Panetta and House majority leader, Dick Gephardt, who was working tirelessly for the budget, had s
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