grow over the years as the United States purchexports annually. After the violence in

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had been critical of President Bush’s policy, and in 1993 I had issued an executive order requiring progress on a range of issues from emigration

to booming coastal cities. Because our engagement had produced some positive

would bring more prosperity to Chinese citizens; more contacts with the outside world; more cooperation on problems like North Korea, where we needed i

countries to our differences over how best to limit sustainable development in poor nations.

willed, and determined to bnotoriously unstable politic

names on it, including two who never returned from their fli

Serenade.”

to the aircraft carrierGeorge Washington for the rest of the voyage. Hillary and I enjodinner with some of the six thousand sailors and marines wh

captain, was credited as being the first officer to successfully reach the top of the forbbluffs of Normandy under withering German fire. Almost 9,400 Americans died on D

their triumph “may walk with a little less sthinner. But let us never forget, when they

and the trees, wisteria, and flowers were all in bloom

Our euphoria was short-lived. Two days later, Bob Dole, after having told m

few days later, Newt Gingrich was quoted a

his fellow Republicans for a filibuster and we were sunk.

The bill was the product of months of consultatiogovernors to people on welfare. The le

workers woul

mothers received more aid if they moved out of their homes than if they continued to litheir parents and stay

March, when the inspections were stopped, I had pledged to seek UN sanctions against NortKorea and refused to rule out military action. It got worse after that. In May, North Korea

President Carter called me on June 1 and said h

plex as long as good-faith

efforts were made to resolve the differences over international inspections. Carter then said that because of this “very positive step,” our administration should ease its sanction efforts and star

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Based on previous experience, I was unwilling to trust North Korea and would leave the sanctions hanging until we receiv

I thought Mack had done a better job than he had gotten credit f

d

atmosphere within the White House and with the cabinet thnever achieved. This environment had helped us to get a lo

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positive coverage.

e

his actual performance in office than on

on the challenge. He had already built a record at OMB that would be hard to improve on

was President; and perhaps most impressive, they brought the first reduction in discretion

The inauguration and an inaugural ball, January 20, 1993

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Chelsea inThe Nutcracker

Tony Lake informs me of Rabin’s death.

Arriving on Marine One, with Bruce Lindsey and Erskine Bowles

Bosnia briefing in the White House Situation Room

Al and I on the edge of the Grand Canyon establishing the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument

On the golf course with Frank Raines, Erskine Bowles, Vernon Jordan, and Max Chapman

A strategy meeting in the Yellow Oval Room

With Republican leaders Representative Newt Gingrich and Senator Bob Dole in the Cabinet Room

With Democratic leaders Representative Richard Gephardt and Senator Tom Daschle in the Oval Office

Russian president Boris Yeltsin and I in Hyde Park, New York

With German chancellor Helmut Kohl at Warburg Castle

Reading “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” to children in the East Room with Hillary and Chelsea

Chelsea and I at Ron Brown’s funeral

Our friends Queen Noor and King Hussein join Hillary and me on the Truman Balcony.

Speaking about America’s bridge to the twenty-first century at Arizona State University

Celebrat

Signing an executive order with representatives of Native American Tribal Governments

Visiting with the troops in Kuwait

Briefing in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with my Middle East team: Madeleine Albright,

Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Rob Malley, Bruce Reidel, and Sandy Berger. Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste is at far right.

With the economic team in the Oval Office

Playing cards with Bruce Lindsey, Doug Sosnik, and Joe Lockhart on Marine One

My legal team: Cheryl Mills, Bruce Lindsey, David Kendall, Chuck Ruff, and Nicole Seligman

With White House valets Fred Sanchez and Lito Bautista, my doctor Connie Mariano, valet Joe Fama, and Oval Office steward Bayani Nelvis

Oval Office steward Glen Maes shows Al and me the cake he made for my birthday.

Playing with Buddy and my nephews Zachary and Tyler on the South Lawn

Socks briefing the press

South African president Nelson Mandela and I in the cell on Robben Island, where he had spent the first eighteen of his twenty-seven years in captivity

With Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi in Tokyo

The Vallenato Children performing in Cartagena, with Chelsea and the president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana

The G-8 meeting in Denver: (left to right) Jacques Delors, Tony Blair, Ryutaro Hashimoto,Helmut Kohl, Boris Yeltsin, me, Jacques Chirac, Jean Chrétien, Romano Prodi, and Wim Kok

With the cabinet: (first row) Bruce Babbitt, William Cohen, Madeleine Albright, me, Larry Summers, Janet Reno; (second row) George Tenet, Togo West, Bill Richardson, Andrew Cuomo, Alexis Herman, Dan Glickman, John Podesta, William Daley, Donna Shalala,Rodney Slater, Richard Riley, Carol Browner; (back row) Thurgood Marshall, Jr., BruReed, James Lee Witt, Charlene Barshefsky, Martin Baily, J

Alvarez, Gene Sperling, and Sandy Berger

With Tony Blair at Chequers

Hillary and I touring a Kosovar refugee camp in Macedonia

Commemorating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, crossing the Edmund Pettus

King, Jr.

Hillary, Chelsea, and I at an MIA excavation site in Vietnam, with the Evert family

Being showered with rose petals in a traditional ceremony in Naila, India

Camp David Middle East peace summit, with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Chairman Yasser Arafat, and my Arabic translator and Middle East advisor, Gemal Helal

With Gerry Adams, John Hume, and David Trimble on St. Patrick’s Day 2000

Addressing a crowd in Market Square, Dundalk, Northern Ireland

Bringing the Internet into America’s classrooms, with Dick Riley

With my presidential aides Doug Band, Kris Engskov, Stephen Goodin, and Andrew Friendl

The special agents in charge, presidential protective division, United States Secret Service, with Nancy Hernreich, director of Oval Office Operations, and my secretary Betty Cu

February 7, 2000: Hillary announces her campaign for the Senate

Chelsea and I wait for Hillary as she casts her first vote as a candidate, Chappaqua, New York.

My last moments in the Oval Office after placing the traditional letter to its next occupant on theResolute desk