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While we didn’t resolve our differences, Prime Minister Rao and I broke the ice and began a new chapter in Indo-U. Rabin and Arafat showed both vision and guts in consenting to come and speak. For the first time, the Arab world stood with Israel in condemning terror and promising to work against it. In more than two hundred years, the United States had never failed to pay its debts.

Meanwhile, Donna Shalala and I had already gone far in reforming the welfare system on our own. At some point, it was revealed that even my mother’s passport files were searched. On the first day, I tried to get Arafat past his grievances to focus on the work ahead and to get Barak to agree on how to ” In the partisan wars that had raged since the mid-1960s, neither side had been completely blameless.