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I kept working hard, concentrating on our pickup targets, Arizona and Florida, and the states we’d won before, including three of those I was most worried about, Nevada, Colorado, and Georgia. They thought Al and I were courting disaster by disregarding the deeper concerns and interests of the people who had elected us. By contrast, in my first two years, the Democratic Congress had approved the budgets on time. When Yeltsin and I got together on April 3, the meeting began a little awkwardly, with Yeltsin explaining that he had to walk a fine line between receiving U.

In April, I saw King Hussein and Prime Minister Netanyahu in an attempt to keep the peace process from falling apart. We were both concerned about the recent North Korean test launch of a long-range missile. Bill Perry, John Deutch, Mickey Kantor, Bob Reich, Hazel O’Leary, Laura Tyson, and Henry Cisneros were all leaving. ” I loved that day in Selma.