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At the time, it was a gamble for both Rabin and Arafat, who couldn’t be sure how their people would react. I also pardoned former House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski. Without knowing what I thought, he said forthrightly that he disagreed: “They get paid to wait. his one with the names of 3,812 airmen, soldiers, and sailors who had been based there, and another Wall of the Missing with

America had a big economic stake in maintaining peace and stability in Asia. Despite the challenges ahead, I felt an enormous sense of relief and satisfaction. had been killed, and Vietnam had consumed America, driven President Johnson from office, and ushered in a new era of division in our politics. It was a busy but fairly normal month, except for an unhappy trip I took to Springfield, Oregon, where a trou