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In the last week of the month, I held a gathering in the East Room of the White House, where almost two hundred One of the local officials joked to me that he was just waiting for a plague of locusts. a rousing start with a ceremony in Independence Square; it was filled with more than half a million people. Before our July 4 meeting, I had asked Sharif on three occasions for help in apprehending Osama bin Laden: in our

I traveled to Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina to express the importance of Latin America to America’s future and to keep pushing the idea of a free trade area covering all the Americas. The Republicans had $100 million more than the Democrats to spend, and more Democrats than Republicans were up for reelection in the Senate. Senate majority leader Trent Lott called my initiative a “typical knee-jerk reaction,” and Tom DeLay accused me of exploiting Columbine for political gain. The only thing that mattered to me about my presidency was whether I had done a good job for the American people in a new and very different era of global interdependence.