” On August 30, I flew to Cartagena, Colombia, with Speaker Dennis Hastert and six other House members, Senator Joe Biden and three other senators, and several cabinet members. ys in the military; and Hillary’s health-care work, foreign policy was always there, an ever-present part of my daily routine and concern. Yeltsin had suggested the summit to highlight our commitment to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, START I and START II, and our joint efforts to secure and destroy nuclear weapons and materials. After ten or fifteen minutes I saw the door to the Oval Office open and looked up to watch Tony Lake walking down the stone pathway toward me.
In a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, I spelled out the parts of the contract I agreed with, on which I would seek compromise, and those I opposed and would veto. He and his allies thought they could wash away all their sins over the last four years in my dirty laundry. While I was garnering support for rebuilding the economy and reforming health care, the Republicans were working hard to tear me down. Finally, some of the things we were doing that would help millions of Americans were either too complex for easy consumption,
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