I hoped that his bravery would get us past the posturing and on to the business of actually balancing the budget. It made him seem even more out of touch. Toward the end of the month, Mike McCurry announced that he would resign as White House press secretary in the fall, The Kosovar Albanians wanted independence.
Before going to the Senate, Tom Dodd had been the executive trial counsel at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. I thought that if we took out a couple of al Qaeda’s training operations it would show them how serious we were, even if we didn’t get bin Laden or his top lieutenants. Lloyd Cutler said there was nothing to worry about because Fiske was clearly independent and there was no way he would be replaced. I quickly settled on two other prospects: Judge Stephen Breyer, who had already been vetted; and Judge Richard Arnold, chief judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in St.
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