For one thing, the Republican cultural base of white voters with a deep reluctance to vote for any Democratic presidential candidate was about 45 percent of the electorate. These were developed after extensive private talks with the parties separately since Camp David. Peres wanted me to sign a security treaty with Israel if it gave up the Golan, an idea that was suggested to me later by Netanyahu and would be advanced again by Barak. On the evening of January 10, after Bob Rubin was sworn in as secretary of Treasury in the Oval Office, h
Soon we would be financing more than half the cost of demining worldwide. e CIA who didn’t favor my outreach to China and could have rigged the maps intentionally to cause a rift between us. The CIA had been authorized to conduct its own “snatch operation” against bin Laden the previous spring, months before the embassy bombings, but it lacked the paramilitary capability to do the job. Because everything happened at once, I was compelled as never before to live parallel lives, except that this time the darkest part of my inner life was in full view.
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