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I had pressed the Libyans to do it, and the White House had reached out to the families of victims, keeping t I would enjoy these last receptions more and the chance to see so many people who shared our time in Washington. President Clinton and Secretary Aspin need to be taken off the blame line. In the afternoon Hillary and I helicoptered to Derry, the most Catholic city in Northern Ireland and John Hume’s hometown.

My main guest that morning was Charlotte Fillmore, a one hundred–year-old former White House employee who decades earlier had had to enter the White House through a special door because of her race. I had thought the Democrats wrong to examine the movie tastes of Judge Bork and the drinking habits of Senator John Tower. A few days later, former South Carolina governor Dick Riley joined the transition team to oversee the sub-cabinet appointments. My meeting with Assad produced no big breakthrough, but he did give me some encouraging hints about how we might move forward.