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After the reception, a military honor guard of one man or woman from each service would escort us down the stairs past the portraits of my predecessors to a receiving line for the guests. Warren Christopher, Bill Perry, and General Shalikashvili went to the conference determined to reverse the building momentum Two days later, still not knowing who my successor would be, I saw Arafat in the Oval Office. h it, because we had finally gotten a green light for the NATO air strikes, and because I didn’t want others to use our uni

On July 15, Ehud and Nava Barak accepted an invitation to spend the night at Camp David with Hillary and me. Patrick’s Day reception at the White House that night. I looked forward to these occasions because they allowed all of us to let our guards down a little, and becau They may have hated government in general, but, like most incumbents, they still wanted to spend themselves to reelection.