Word: mideast
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Mideast Peace Process...
...Clinton wants to hear back from both men by week's end, and his last best chance for a legacy of success in the Mideast may hinge on whether he can convince Arafat and Barak that this is their last best chance...
...Economics, demographics imperil Mideast peace...
...East [has] made it more difficult to reach a settlement," and suggested that his administration would try to avoid the mistake of pushing for a final agreement on Jerusalem. Cheney's comments underline the expectation that the new Bush administration will eschew President Clinton's activist, micromanaging style to Mideast peace, and may adopt a less optimistic approach. The stated intention of President-elect Bush's foreign policy team is to formulate policy on the basis of a more clearly defined U.S. national interest, and that may make the new administration more inclined to view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...White House dinner, just about two weeks after that first Mideast handshake with Arafat and Rabin. Afterward, Clinton took us out to the terrace to show us where the handshake had been. Then he took us into the Oval Office, showing us John Kennedy's desk and all. You had the sense that this was a guy who loved being President, and not merely for the power of it. It was also for the engagement with the ideas of it, with the possibilities. Then I saw him years later, at a fund raiser right in the middle of the Monica...