senator, a supporter of civil rights, and an opponent of the Vietnam War, positions that helped to defeat him in 1970 but that also ensured him an honored place in American history. Al Gore’s father was at the ceremony, and when he reminded Fulbright that he himself was only eighty-five, Fulbright replied, “Albert, if you behave yourself, you’ll make it, too. Bob Kellogg and Nannette Paco, who worked with me every day. I told him that based on the last eight years, I thought his biggest security problems, in order, would be
After a stop in the Netherlands to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan, I flew to London for my first official meeting with the new British prime minister, Tony Blair. “It’s not a ‘home game’ for you. had grown far beyond the earlier estimates on which I had built my budget proposals in the campaign. Jiang seemed a little taken aback but maintained his good humor, essentially repeating what he had said to me on the subjects th
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