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The next day I signed the Lobbying Disclosure Act, after the House Republicans reversed their opposition, and vetoed a third appropriations bill, for the Departments of Commerce, State, and Justice. Soon afterward, the heavy weapons were removed or put under UN control. I said farewell to New Hampshire in Dover, where almost nine years earlier I had promised to be with them “’til the last dog dies. There wasn’t a word in the address about the scandal, and the biggest new idea had been to “save Social Security first.

Many people with whom we’d gone to kindergarten and grade school were there. Finally, Arafat agreed to see Shimon Peres on the thirteenth after Peres had first met with Saeb Erekat. Barak had just survived a no-confidence vote in the Knesset by only two votes. The next day we left for Martha’s Vineyard on our annual vacation.