We didn’t agree on the test ban treaty, but I already knew that, because Strobe Talbott had been working with Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh and others for months on nonproliferation issues. Before it was over, Polshek would say I was the worst client he had ever had: if he came to see me af Staying together in the guest quarters of the Kremlin and seeing Moscow in the dead of winter would be a good distraction for all of us. I had gotten George Mitchell involved again, and we had done our best to help Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair avoid this day.
I believed the first term produced six important accomplishments: (1) restoring economic growth by replacing supply-side economics with our more disciplined “ I don’t think five people could repeat Strobe’s title, but everybody knew what he did: he was our “go to” man on Russia. I was in Europe for D-day, so Al Gore called Carter and told him that I had no objection to his goin I was stunned.
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