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Buried within a mountain of superhard greenstone, the 200,000-sq.-ft. Mount Weather has been a primary relocation site for the Cabinet and cadres of % federal employees -- and was long a primary haven for the President. J. Leo Bourassa, Gallagher's predecessor, recalls the day Eisenhower summoned him to the Oval Office and spoke to him of Mount Weather. "I expect your people to save our government," Eisenhower told him. "You know damn well I'll be there as soon as I can." In May 1960, Eisenhower and his Cabinet convened at Mount Weather as part of a training...
...that Israel was embarked on a program of "severe and substantial curtailments," greatly improving the chance that Washington will now grant at least part of the $10 billion in loan guarantees Israel has requested to help resettle Russian Jews. The U.S. had pointedly withheld that aid from Rabin's predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir, whose government in the past two years built or began construction on 15,000 housing units...
Immediately after hearing Rabin's message, the Bush Administration moved to reconstruct ties that were badly strained under Rabin's predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir of the right-wing Likud party. Bush dispatched Secretary of State James Baker to meet with the new Israeli administration and arrange for the next round of regional peace talks, scheduled to take place in Rome in a month or two. Given Rabin's pledge to slow construction of settlements in the occupied territories, Israeli and American officials expressed confidence that Washington would approve at least part of the $10 billion in loan guarantees Jerusalem is seeking...
Each party has its own agenda and political constraints in approaching the others. Rabin has three immediate priorities, all linked: quick progress with the Palestinians; repairing the damage done to Israel's ties with Washington during the tenure of his predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir; rerouting Israeli shekels from building settlements in the occupied territories to creating jobs and absorbing immigrants...
Yeltsin was surely aware that many Administration officials still tended to view him as a bumpkin and that he needed to overcome Washington's nostalgia for his sophisticated predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev. He succeeded with a confident, bravura performance that became a personal triumph...