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He hauled Hillary’s staff and friends before the committee for bullying questioning and ad hominem attacks. The atmosphere in the Yellow Oval Room remained awkward and tense until Bob Rubin spoke. m, despite the fact that the very effort to do so posed a threat to his already precarious situation in Parliament. ” Even conservative Republicans who lived in the real world, as opposed to Whitewater World, knew the independent counsel had gone too far.

Ehud Barak asked me three times to pardon Rich because of Rich’s services to Israel and his help with the Palestinians, and several other Israeli figures in both major parties urged his release. The lesson was not lost on perhaps the best politician in the talented Bush family: in 2002, President George W. There was some discussion about whether I should speak. But the crushing combination of difficulties had created a culture that accepted as normal the presence of violence an