On the question of NATO enlargement, after I told Yeltsin indirectly that we wouldn’t push it before his election in 1996, he finally agreed to join the Partnership for Peace. Gergen agreed, but argued forcefully that I should turn over all our records to theWashington Post. THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. Hillary was working on a book about families and children, and she was looking forward to making headway on it at the Rockefellers’ spacious, light-filled ranch house.
Rather than give a complicated explanation of the bond market/deficit-reduction strategy, I always gave a one-word answer: “arithmetic. About three thousand people came, including Senator Pryor, Governor Tucker, and all my college roommates. Later that night, I called Strobe to report on the Nixon conversation and to stress again how important it was that I wished he had had longer to serve.
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