All the while Arafat was speaking, he looked uncomfortable and skeptical, so ill at ease that he gave the impression of someone who was dying to excuse himself. We got a piece of good news when Saudi Arabia agreed to buy $6 billion worth of American planes, after intense efforts by Ron Brown, Mickey Kantor, and Transportation Secretary Federico Peña. Now that the Senate and House had approved the budget plans, they would have to reconcile their differences and then we’d have to fight for passage in both houses all over again. By the time he was killed, I had come to love him as I had rarely loved another man.
” By contrast, I was a bit tight and at times seemed almost overprepared. War II, followed by Hillary’s trip to Beijing to address the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Just before the economic conference, I announced that Mack McLarty would be White House chief of staff. I accepted, in the hope that I could use the trip to push for progress on the other Middle East tracks.
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