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His victory was a clear signal that Israelis saw in him what they had seen in his role model, Yitzhak Rabin: the possibility of peace with security. One of the local officials joked to me that he was just waiting for a plague of locusts. and I was pleased when he agreed to become America’s first Hispanic ambassador to the United Nations. It was a rare day in the campaign; the news was dominated by people concerned with issues and their impact on people’s lives.

Little over a decade earlier, our neighbors had been plagued with civil wars, coups, dictators, closed economies, and desperate poverty. stay out of citizens’ private lives and who believed political combat should focus on ideas, not personal attacks. The White House and the Democrats had a field day fighting those cuts. nally divided Indians, and discussed the importance of micro-credit loans with the women of the local dairy cooperative.