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I liked Bentsen and thought he would be perfect for the Treasury job: he was respected on Wall Street, effective with Congress, and committed to my goals of restoring growth and reducing poverty. On the other hand, the state supreme court, which presumably would have the final say on the countin n their backgrounds or previously unexamined opinions had become a regular part of Washington political life. Hillary and I had known Shalala, a four-foot eleven-inch dynamo of Lebanese ancestry, for years.

to the friendship between Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev and Toby Gati, one of my foreign policy advisors. All the world was cheering, except for diehard protesters in the Middle East who were inciting violence, and demonstrators in front of the White House claiming we were endangering Israel’s security. If we were going to make peace in the Middle East, I knew I would have to close the deal. more knowledge than I had of the hate mail I was getting, my contacts with the public were a worrisome risk to be managed.