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I had stepped into what Dick Holbrooke called “the greatest collective security failure of the West since the 1930s. We had been friends since 1980; our children had played together since they were young, and Mary had worked her heart out for me all over the country in 1992. This was the first of many exchanges we would have about the power over the lives of ordinary Americans exercised by thirty-year-old bond traders. Al and I developed a good routine.

There was something to it, but the loudest complaints always overlooked the good done by Lincoln and the national Republicans in ending slavery and preserving the Union. Mo Mowlan, the UK secretary of state for Northern Ireland, to Omagh to meet with victims of the bombing. After our rocky start, New York became one of my strongest states for the next eight years. of Small Business Administration loans, especially to women and minorities; and named a National Commissio