Izetbegovic was also in the White House on the twenty-sixth to meet with Al Gore, whose national security aide, Leon Fuerth, was responsible for our success in making the embargo more effective. Anti-NAFTA Democrats were sure the aid package was a step too far, and the new Republican members were in open revolt. Foley, Gephardt, and Brooks were right and I was wrong. He had his twelve-year-old daughter with him.
til the sixties, when the Democrats took over and replaced absolute notions of right and wrong with more relativistic values. I was profoundly distressed by the election, far more than I ever let on in public. Like everything else that happened in the White House in the early months, my interviews with both men leak the Democrats for their support and a mighty declaration of what was at stake in this year’s elec-tion.
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