On February 5 and 6, Tony and Cherie Blair came to the United States for a two-day state visit. After the funeral I held a few meetings with other leaders at the King David Hotel, with its magnificent view of the Old City, then headed back to Washington. The committee Democrats, led by John Conyers of Michigan, fought them tooth and nail, arguing that even if the worst charge Mack McLarty had never sought the chief of staff’s job, and Leon Panetta was willing to take on the challenge.
The education package was one of the most important achievements of my first two years in office. Our Democratic chair, George Jernigan, who had run against me for attorney general sixteen years earlier, gave the honor to another Clinton delegate. heywere true, the offenses did not come close to meeting the constitutional standard for impeachment, much less removal. The fighting between Muslims and Croatians had not been as severe as that in which both sides had engaged with the Bosnian Serbs, but the agreement was still an important step toward peace.
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