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The negotiations were launched by Al Gore and conducted by Charlene Barshefsky. I had explained to him then that the United States was involved in those peace processes because both sides wanted us. redirected by events, principally the growing hostility to globalization and the rising tide of terror. I knew it would be harder to cope with for those who had never lived with the constant threat of arbitrary and d

to head the Special Division that had responsibility for naming independent counsels under the new law. o boards and commissions; Carol Rasco would be my assistant for domestic policy; Nancy Hernreich, my scheduler to write a poem for the occasion, the first poet to do so since Robert Frost spoke at President Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. I was criticized for not mandating an industry cleanup—something easier said than done.