Arafat never said no; he just couldn’t bring himself to say yes. After all my efforts, if Arafat wasn’t going to make peace, he owed it to me to tell me, so that I could go to North Korea to end another serious security threat. That enabled us to maintain our influence with them, but weakened our claim to be an honest broker with the Palestinians. And they had a lot of weapons to fire.
5 to 12 percent. I learned a lot on the trip, and it got good press coverage. Byrd hated the line-item veto with a passion most people reserve for more personal injuries, and I don’t think he ever forgave me for signing the bill. Besides giving the Republicans a national platform for the 1994 campaign, Gingrich provided them with a list of words to use in defining their Democratic opponents.
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