The Israelis had just begun to elect their prime minister directly, so Netanyahu had a four-year term, but he still had to put together a majority coalition in the Knesset. On November 19 and 20, I went back to putting things together, flying to Seattle for the first-ever leaders’ meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. It was always light and open, even on cloudy days, because of the tall windows and glass door toward the south and east. A poll in March said that half the people thought Hillary and I were lying about Whitewater, and a third of them thought we had done something illegal.
It was both a wise and a shrewd move, but I was going to miss Yeltsin. We also had to make deals on a wide range of issues; the lobbying effort for NAFTA looked even more like sausage making than the budget fight had. r nation’s life by stopping the pursuit of personal destruction and prying into private lives, and moving on. Ross would be gone.
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