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theWashington Post called it highly “exaggerated” and “silly,” and even theWall Street Journal said it was “misleading. I filled out the room with a late-eighteenth-century Chippendale sofa, the oldest piece of furniture in the White House coll Though she was right about the nature of our opposition, seeing Hillary defend me made me even more ashamed about what I had done. We were making some headway on the economic front; in the last five months, over 950,000 more Americans had found work, about as many new jobs as the economy had produced in the previous three years.

I understood his frustration with Arafat, but I couldn’t do that; it would have been a disaster, and I told him so. I pledged that they would go in with a clear, limited, achievable mission and would be well trained and heavily armed to minimize the risk of casualties. After breaking for Christmas, I vetoed one more budget bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. Mandela gave me clear instructions: We were doing a good cop/bad cop routine.