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The thirty-three democratically elected leaders of Canada, Central and South America, and the Caribbean were t Hillary, Chelsea, and I spent New Year’s in Hilton Head at Renaissance Weekend, as we had been doing every year for nearly a decade. Planes carrying Eighty-second Airborne Division paratroopers would fly out of North Carolina and drop them over the island at the outset of the assault. Paul Begala wrote the first draft of the speech.

I related well to the people in Pittsburgh and in the smaller cities in the middle of the state. onicled in great detail by Sidney Blumenthal inThe Clinton Wars and by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons inThe Hunting of the President. Strauss said I could work with Yeltsin and give him good political advice, and he urged me to do both. undred thousand dollars in illegal campaign contributions from Asians, including people I had known when I was governor.