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After the results came in, Carville and others implored all the challengers with a chance to win to adopt this strategy. I had pushed hard for the cease-fire, and it would hold this time, making it possible at last for the Irish to find their way through the thicket of accumulated hurt and suspicion to a shared future. The War Memorial Auditorium was full, with people from all walks of life who had come to pay their respec Every month, the agency liaison who headed the casework operation sent me a report on the people we’d helped, along with a few of the moving thank-you letters they sent.

Mike Espy had supported me through thick and thin in 1992. lation; a village that had recovered a section of desert with the help of American aid; and Senegalese troop Now our last phone conversation seemed too routine, too full of idle chitchat; we had talked like people who think they have forever to talk to each other. plutonium—enough to make thousands of bombs—and render the material incapable of being used to make weapons in the future.