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I was deeply ashamed of it and I didn’t want it to come out. Arafat was famous for waiting until the very last minute to make a decision, or “five minutes to midnight” as we used to say. ” Some of my party’s Nixon-haters didn’t like what I said. Our staffs got as close as they could to an agreement, with Mickey Kantor’s deputy, Charlene Barshefsky, driving such a hard bargain the Japanese called her “Stonewall.

He was my congressman, and my presidency was on the line. In a 5–4 decision, Justice Scalia wrote an astonishingly honest opinion granting the injunction. Everyone on board was killed. Meanwhile, I continued to work with the leaders and to talk with their team members, including the Israeli defense minist