The next day we held a White House event that for me was about Mother: a celebration of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Protection and T When I talked to Sandy Berger and George Tenet, they were adamantly opposed to letting Pollard go, as was Madeleine Albright. The reforms were invariably politically difficult. By the time we arrived, Tony Lake and Dennis Ross, our special envoy to the Middle East, were already there, sitting in silent respect.
I knew that if the American people saw the election as a choice between building a bridge to the past and building a bridge to the future, we would win. Our work presented a perfect contrast to the shrill attacks of the Republicans. A thirteen-year-old girl from Kentucky wrote me to say that I’d made a mistake, but I couldn’t quit, because my opponents were “mean. If we were going to make peace in the Middle East, I knew I would have to close the deal.
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