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Without them, I wouldn’t have been getting on that airplane. Secretary Shalala had already granted several states “waivers” from existing federal rules to pursue m We should have been in good shape going into the elections: the economy was producing 250,000 jobs a month, wit Starr had already issued subpoenas to a number of White House staff people and for our records.

Mathilde Krim, Jesse Jackson, civil rights lawyer Judge Cruz Reynoso, and General Wes Clark, who had ended his b The peace process in the Middle East was also threatened in late February, as two Hamas bombs killed twenty-six people. At a dinner that night hosted by President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, I was glad to see Yeltsin in good spirits and apparently recovering from open-heart surgery. On the nineteenth, my forty-seventh birthday, I announced that Bill Daley of Chicago would become the chair of our task force on the North American Free Trade Agreement.