In mid-month we had a new crisis in Iraq, when Saddam expelled six American members of the UN weapons inspection teams. If anybody could bring Mexico back, Zedillo could. From Beijing we went to Shanghai, which seemed to have more construction cranes than any other city in the world. I also sent my last message to Congress: “The Unfinished Work of Building One America.
Eventually, I nominated Deval Patrick, another brilliant African-American lawyer with a strong civil rights background, to lead the Civil Rights Division, and he did a fine job. My first visa to Adams and the subsequent intense engagement of the White House made a difference, and George Mitchell handled the negotiations brilliantly. ident; besides Ohio, Georgia, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New Jersey voted narrowly for me. Barrett had spent more than $9 million of the taxpayers’ money to torment a good man for four years.
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