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primaries, and the state whose votes had officially put me over the top at our convention in New York. When we returned from our vacation, we moved into Blair House for three weeks while the White House air-conditioning system was being repaired. Unlike Fiske, Starr had no prosecutorial experience, but he had something far more important: he was much more conservative and partisan than Fiske. After flying 149 combat missions in World War II and Korea, John had been one of America’s first astronauts more than thirty-five years earlier.

Though I couldn’t give Boris the $500 million check he wanted, at the press conference following our final session I made i Now, if the Republicans could sustain a filibuster, our health-care plan would be dead on arrival. All the while Arafat was speaking, he looked uncomfortable and skeptical, so ill at ease that he gave the impression of someone who was dying to excuse himself. At the press conference after our meeting, I said that we had made progress on Bosnia and that we would both pus