We were determined to use the rapid-response team to turn the Republican attacks back on them. I left Vancouver with more confidence in Yeltsin and a better understanding of the magnitude of his challenges and his visceral determination to overcome them. Blinder said it might work if the Fed and the bond market believed us. Dole gave a good speech, too, focusing on his lifetime of duty, his tax cuts, and his advocacy of traditional American values.
In mid-month we had a new crisis in Iraq, when Saddam expelled six American members of the UN weapons inspection teams. Starr’s tactics were beginning to draw the attention of the press. Prime Minister Miyazawa agreed in principle to my suggestion that we achieve a framework agreement committing ourselves to specific measurable steps to improve our trade relationship. When we moved in, Hillary redid the little kitchen so that we could eat dinner there at night when it was just the three of us.
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