Arafat wanted a UN committee and immediate resumption of the talks. Buddy had showered them on me when I was young and fatherless. The next day, interest rates on the government’s thirty-year bond fell from 7. Bob also wanted to go home to Massachusetts to his wife, Clare, and their sons.
On the other hand, I was the President; I was supposed to lead, and we had already cut the deficit by a third with no Republican support. It wasn’t clear to me whether we were going to win or lose either the battle for Florida or the struggle for peace. It was the brainchild of the writer Andrew Vachss, in response to stories of children subject to awful abuse in child-care centers. We have an obligation, all of us, to call attention to prejudice whenever we see it.
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