Every year a large Christmas tree is brought in for the oval Blue Room on the main floor. Then she chuckled and said she knew the two troopers weren’t the “brightest lights on the horizon,” but she sure wished “the boys would find some other way to make a living. ” After the speech I walked out into the hall to sit with Madeleine Albright and Dick Holbrooke to listen to the next speaker: President Mohammed Khatami of Iran. Kofi was an intelligent, impressive man with a quiet but commanding presence.
The American-Jewish community had been very good to me. Then we talked a little more politics. One of them was a mistake based on inadequate information because the Justice Department didn’t know that the man in question was under investigation in a different state. The United States provided less support for balancing work and family than any other wealthy nation, and I wanted to change that.
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