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Hugh came up from Miami every week to play UpWords, talk sports, and make me laugh. on, and new reforms in health and education; (6) and reasserting America’s leadership in the post–Cold War world as a force for democracy, shared prosperity, a When my voice was off, a lot of the young staffers good-naturedly poked fun at me by repeating the humming exercises. I was working to bring the deficit down, and Germany’s central bank had just lowered interest rates, but Japan’s

rs of them would perish in trying to get here in rickety boats on the high seas, as about four hundred had done just a week earlier. Two aircraft carriers were in the waters off Haiti, one transporting Special Operations forces and the other carrying soldiers from the Tenth Mountain Division. Most reporters knew nothing about Arkansas or me when they started. I shook hands with Arafat, with the blocking maneuver I had practiced.