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Al Gore, Madeleine Albright, and Sandy Berger had all remained cool under fire in the nail-biting, roller-coaster weeks we had just been through together. Partisanship returned in early October, when the Senate rejected, on a party-line vote, my nomination of Judge Ronnie White to a federal district judgeship. Around this time I was in Boston with Mayor Tom Menino. American communities; and on October 11, in Chappaqua, met Hillary to celebrate our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

But as Abba Eban had said long ago, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. at the onset of a confrontation with a religious cult, the Branch Davidians, at their compound outside Waco, Texas. Hussein was in the United States for cancer treatments at the Mayo Clinic. In the two and a half years we had worked together, Rabin and I had developed an unusually close relationship, mar