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e Minister Howard that I would send a couple of hundred American troops to provide the logistical support our allies needed. In the meantime, on crutches, he traveled to forty states and four foreign countries, including Egypt, where he bro I thought he was just throwing them a temporary bone. I told Netanyahu that I would review the case seriously and try to work through it with Tenet and the national security team, but

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. Kofi Annan and I hosted the traditional luncheon, and when it was over I followed my usual custom of standing by my table to shake hands with the leaders who stopped by on the way out. If he left, there was a real chance Arafat would not go forward. We walked onto the stage to greet Al and Tipper and the thousands of people who had filled the downtown streets.