We went to Belfast, where I met with the Northern Irish leaders, including David Trimble, Seamus Mallon, John Hume, and Gerry Adams. ah thought she was simply expressing the anger and alienation of young blacks and telling them to stop killing one another. Not long afterward, her lawyers petitioned the court to be released of their duties. After all, I had nothing to hide, and all the clamor was diverting the attention of Congress and the country from our larger agenda.
We had already declassified thousands of documents from World War II, the Cold War, and President Kennedy’s assassination. the Cold War, India and Pakistan knew little about each other’s nuclear capabilities and policies for using them. Yeltsin wasn’t trying to make me look bad as Khrushchev had done to Kennedy; he was trying to make himself look good against enemies at home who were trying to do him in. He was growing impatient over the peace process with Arafat, and was unsure whether their differences over Jerusalem could be resolved.
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