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Monica continued to visit the White House, and I saw her on some of those occasions, but nothing improper occurred. That argument had carried the day with all my predecessors, including those sympathetic to the legitimate grievances of Northern Ireland’s Catholics. Then there was the question of whether Rabin and Arafat would shake hands. On the day after the election I called Newt Gingrich to talk about some business; when the conversation got around to the elec

it is wrong to waste the precious gift of time given to us on acrimony and division. All the world was cheering, except for diehard protesters in the Middle East who were inciting violence, and demonstrators in front of the White House claiming we were endangering Israel’s security. I liked Obuchi and thought he had a chance to tame the turbulent Japanese political scene and serve for several years. Defining moments like that don’t happen by accident.