By late November, her cancer had spread and contaminated her bloodstream. Yet, on balance, I still felt good about where things stood: the country was moving in the right direction, my job rating was high, and we still had plenty to do. Since we had won by such small margins in both places, any concession made by one chamber to the other could lose a vote or two, all it would take to defeat the whole package. The press was still buzzing about campaign finance abuses.
TheNew York Times had just published an editorial saying historians were beginning to say I was a politician with grea I thought the refusal to pay our back dues was irresponsible and damaging to both the UN and the United States, but I agreed that reform was imperative. Still, he argued, we couldn’t behave as if we didn’t care that Aidid had murdered UN forces who were serving with us. rael, Lebanon, and Syria to end the Lebanese crisis and enable us to get back to the business of peace.
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