Kerrey and I had worked together as governors, and I didn’t hold the tough things he had said in the campaign against him. Toni Morrison once said I was the first black President this country ever had. I also used the occasion to urge congressional action on the anti-terrorism legislation that had been held up for more than a year. The point I tried to make is that our world was not divided by religious differences, but between those who chose to live with the pain of the past and those who chose the promise of the future.
The next day there were large Palestinian demonstrations near the Western Wall, during which Israeli police opened fire with rubber bullets on stone throwers and others. Instead, the inspectors had repeatedly been threatened, “so Iraq has abused its final chance. On the twenty-ninth, Dennis Ross met with Abu Ala, whom we all respected, to make sure Arafat understood the consequences of rejection. Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein said they were disappointed because the principles lacked specificity as to how the peace process would operate and how Sinn Fein would be able to participate in it.
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