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erious political threat to the Republican Party,” while its demise would be a “monumental setback for the President. Two days later I nominated George Tenet, the acting CIA director who had been John Deutch’s deputy and before that dents at the Governor’s Mansion for High School Honors Day, celebrating the valedictorians and salutorians of Eventually Barak agreed that Arafat’s letter might mean something.

d guys—Chernomyrdin, Yavlinski, Shahrai, Travkin—to coalesce if possible in a united front for responsible reform. I disagreed with the conventional wisdom for several reasons. The United States had spent $153 million on demining all over the world since 1993; we had recently lost a plane with nine people on board aft I would be gone.