They were making up their case as they moved along. We saw eye to eye on most things, and I enjoyed the meeting, as well as my first visit to Portugal. By contrast, the NRA was determined to defeat as many members of Congress who voted against them as possible. Rubin, as moderator, was again keeping his own counsel, but I sensed he was with Bentsen and Panetta.
We certainly didn’t have the Thai problem with Russia. On the nineteenth, my forty-seventh birthday, I announced that Bill Daley of Chicago would become the chair of our task force on the North American Free Trade Agreement. Also, the populist edge sounded to some swing voters as if Al, too, might change the economic direction of the country. Sharon would take a hard line toward Arafat and would be supported in doing so by Ehud Barak and the United States.
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