” When George Stephanopoulos heard Treasury’s $25 billion figure for the loan, he thought Rubin and Summers must have meant $25million ; he thought I was about to shoot myself in the foot. In this one, the enemy was elusive, everyone was a potential target, our enormous arsenal was not a d The rumor was false, apparently a case of mistaken identity, but again, it reflected a double standard. A little over three hours later, the networks projected me the overall winner, when Ohio went our way by 90,000 votes out of almost 5 million cast, a victory margin of less than 2 percent.
century had begun with a war in Sarajevo, and I must not allow the century to end with a war in Sarajevo. Instead, I ordered the planes to turn around and come home. It’s hard to describe in words, but I left Blair House with my eagerness tempered by humility. Foley, Gephardt, and Brooks were right and I was wrong.
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