16/02/2026 18:55

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I was convinced Netanyahu wanted to do more, and afraid that if he couldn’t, Arafat would find it more difficult to keep the lid on violence. In the last week of the month, Prime Minister Netanyahu survived a no-confidence vote in the Knesset on the Wye River accord, and the president He had done a fine job as deputy secretary of defense, then had stepped into the tough CIA job after Jim Woolsey’s brief tenure. Then Hillary, Chelsea, and I had a real treat when Nelson Mandela came to our suite for a visit.

As Teddy Roosevelt once said, no man is above the law, but “no man is below the law either. He said I was untrustworthy and anti-family, while I said he was dividing America and holding us back. The problem Russia had with our position was that it was unclear what the dividing line was between theater missile defense and the larger ones prohibited by the treaty. Actually, it was more complicated than that.