Initially there had been this very strong partnership, and in many ways Gore brought a lot of the Washington experience that Clinton didn't have. Shelton and Cohen definitely did not want to do this. There were a couple of things that came up during the break that we might want to get on tape. Female friend, to Fernando Crossword Clue Thomas Joseph - News. I had some funny interactions actually. It made me reflect a bit more on what had happened during the Carter administration, especially in terms of the way decisions were taken on, for instance, the Panama Canal treaty, which was something that I had worked on for Senator Muskie, and then was in the White House for Carter when it actually got approved.
The real issue was—I mean, I was very pro-UN, and yet I could tell that it very badly needed reform. Some of it may have had to do with the Mariel boatlift. I want to come back and talk a little bit more about why— partisanship is part of it—but there may be other factors. Then there were other members of the Security Council who felt we should do something.
But I think that I was much calmer than I thought I would be. How could you have committed him so early? He was very attentive. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. At lunch we talked briefly about Middle East negotiations at the end of the administration. At the '92 convention I was co-chair of the platform committee that time with Bill Richardson. What happened—I can't remember all this exactly—but Carter's people were not really good at Congressional relations. My kids were so funny afterwards. Then there really was this funny game of which Ambassador would get on TV first. Female rodent to fernando crossword clue. I have to think more about the right word about him, but I think in some ways at the time.
What we'd try to do—there were some professors from Georgetown, Sandy Berger, and various people who reappear. Then the mandate got enlarged in terms of disarming. There were some convoys that were hit. When I got there, [Vaclav] Havel, who was a good friend, said that the advance people were not even vaguely helpful in terms of what to do with the President. So that got on my nerves. That recommendation that the UN Ambassador be Cabinet officer with status on the principals, did that mean that the UN Ambassador was going to have more staff? I would review troops and I would make it a point to try to get them to have eye contact with me. I thought I'd send them to him directly. This is something that people will have different recollections of. It was very evident that the Russians would veto anything in terms of a UN mandate for this. Female friend to fernando crossword clue. It was already evident that the French and the Russians had different intentions on the sanctions. Later when Bill became Secretary of Energy, he asked me what I thought about Dick Holbrooke, which was when we were doing the Dick Gardner thing, later. So I think we were successful in getting some of the foreign assistance budgets that we needed, but never quite as much as we wanted.
But it's also the case that people have different skill sets; they have different sets of visions. Evelyn de Seversky- A popular and respected pilot in the 1920s and 30s who kept at least one aircraft at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. I actually thought I would get along better with Tony than I did because our views, later in terms of Bosnia and things, were very similar. I'm Jeff Chidester, research director for the Clinton project. She was, in a very different way. I was doing process; I wasn't doing that issue as much, but it's a real decision for someone to launch a big thing like that in the middle of a transition. Fernando's female friend - crossword puzzle clue. This was before or after the election? Then I went to visit President and Mrs. [Barbara] Bush. But he wasn't as tuned in on this as he had been on Bosnia. I'm not sure he had great conversations with [Gerhard] Schroeder. So I took the experiences of my time with the Carter administration and for ten years thought about them and taught about them. He began to be absolutely key on issues to do with sanctions because he had done a big study of all the various roles of sanctions. In the end, none of us knows why at that exact moment he capitulated, but it was also a combination then of getting the Russians involved.
How do you decide when to end sanctions? Some of it has to do with first getting a sense of the room and knowing who's who, then waiting to see what you might say when you can say it. Interview with Madeleine K. Albright. I go back in my own mind about a lot of how I felt about Yugoslavia. I think one of the most interesting Washington developments, and very un-Washingtonian, is that Sandy could have been National Security Advisor at the beginning.
It's ironic that it is exactly as we're commemorating the tenth anniversary of Rwanda. But on the other hand, these Ambassadors were still instructed. To what extent is it appropriate to use force in which innocent people might be killed along with those that you're trying to push back or punish or something? It was all about process. It's certainly a matter that Republicans gained control of the House and Senate. No, they're wonderful. I think that would have made a huge difference if it had succeeded. Female friend in spanish. Then, because Saddam Hussein—most people misunderstand this—there never was an embargo on food and medicine to Iraq, even though it was a very tough sanctions regime. They said, There is no such thing as semi-permissive. Anyway, we kept dealing with Milosevic and letting him know that he couldn't get away with killing people in Kosovo. I had a very good relationship with him. Did you leave that experience going into the 1980s with a perception about how a President ought to behave, especially in foreign relations or in Congressional relations?