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system to deal with a global economy in which more than one trillion dollars crossed national borders every day. He had done his part. But I was ready to get on with my life and didn’t want to complicate Hillary’s new life in politics. On August 31, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 512 points, following a drop of 357 just four days earlier; all the gains of 1998 were wiped out.

ntries; by setting up a deliberate process for adding new NATO members; and by working hard to establish a NATO-Russian partnership. As Senate minority leader, Daschle had been invaluable to the White House during the budget fights and the shutdown; when he asked me to come to South Dakota, I couldn’t say no. We wanted to talk about Russia, but the leader of our group, the great Olympic hurdler Edwin Moses, set such a brisk pace that I couldn’t keep up and talk at the same time. Second, I wanted the country to be more united, not more divided, even if the split would be to my political advantage.