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e since Truman was President; and perhaps most impressive, they brought the first reduction in discretionary domestic spen at the Meadowlands, a musical extravaganza featuring rock, jazz, and country musicians and movie stars who were supporting me. In Copenhagen, on a bright sunny day, the size and enthusiasm of the crowd reflected an affirmation of o permitted the kind of “proximity talks” that allowed Holbrooke and his team to hammer out the tough details.

tatives, understood the security challenges of the post–Cold War world, and was committed to modernizing our military to meet them. Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the HIV-positive former All-Star guard of the Los Angeles Lakers, abruptly resigned from the National Co Then I brought him into the house to show him a bust of Roosevelt sculpted by a Russian artist, a painting of the President’s indomitable On September 11, I went to South Bend, Indiana, to deliver an address to the students and faculty at Notre Dame, America’s most famous Catholic university.