e big thing: on the twin issues that had constituted the casus belli of the cold war—democracy versus dictato With a population of nearly one billion, India was the world’s largest democracy. He seemed by turns coldly calculating and genuinely emotional, petty and generous, mad at the world and full of fun. The next day, after the commemorative ceremonies, Yeltsin and I met in St.
kansas Project was not yet public knowledge, but who was widely recognized as an extreme right-winger with an animus toward me. Two of my Secret Service agents, who almost never said anything to me about politics, told me how glad they were to see the two of us in a positive discussion. After we finished, he graciously received all the Catholics on the White House staff and on my Secret Service detail who had been able to come to Denver with me. Every year we used the State of the Union as an organizing tool for the cabinet and staff to come up with new policy ideas, and then we worked hard on how best to present them.
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