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ould make the final call on how much land the Israelis kept for settlements and what constituted a fair land swap. While it was raging, we went to the Kennedy Center one night for a performance of Handel’sMessiah. In an attempt to get more votes from my party, I had pledged to Democrats that I would negotiate trade agreements with labor and environmen right of the American people; and, despite their campaign promises, the Republicans would soon be proposing c

ter neighborhoods of East Jerusalem; planning, zoning, and law-enforcement authority over the rest of the eastern part of Finally, President Bush had given decades of service to our country, and I thought we should allow him to retire in peace, leaving the matter between him and his conscience. ry into ethnic regions but failed, because there was no way to do it without leaving large numbers of one group The first was in McAllen, deep in South Texas near the Mexican border where I had been stranded with Sargent Shriver twenty years earlier.