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ine Fifty Fifty-one Fifty-two Fifty-three Fifty-four Fifty-five Epilogue Acknowledgments Photo Credits CopyrightBill Clinton My Life ALFRED A. Jay had been my friend since we sat together at governors’ meetings. siness Administration; Gene Sperling to head the National Economic Council on the departure of Laura Tyson; Dr. I had instituted the APEC leaders’ meeting back in 1993, and I was pleased with the expansion of the group and the work done since then.

eation of habits of cooperation, which clearly were going to be more important than ever in the twenty-first century. them to work with me step by step, and to start by making sure people didn’t lose their health insurance when t A couple of days after the immediate Iraq crisis passed, the Protestant paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland announced that they would join the IRA in observing a complete cease-fire. On May 2, I announced that, at long last, I had reached a balanced budget agreement with Speaker Gingrich and Senator Lott and the congressional negotiators for both parties.