re paying more for insurance, if they could get it, and often couldn’t change jobs without losing it. So they didn’t ask follow-up questions “because they were afraid I would give them a truthful answer. For seventeen more days we would both be in office, the first couple to serve in the White House and the Senate in American history. Nothing could be done on the Middle East for the moment, until the Israeli political situation was sorted out.
When Arafat’s time came, he took a different tack. After the press conference, I did a town hall meeting with young people at the Ostankino television station. He insisted on taking the testimony of several of my Secret Service agents, including Larry Cockell, the head of my detail. The United States had been supporting the Russian economy since my first year in office, and we had contributed almost a third of the $23 billion IMF package in July.
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