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Rahm Emanuel had left, too. , came to work in the White House; and my lifelong friend Vince Foster agreed to come to the counsel’s office. Now Barak wanted to start them up again, though as yet he was unwilling to reaffirm the precise words of the Rabin pocket commitment. He said that I would be “totally occupied for the next two years in staying out of jail,” and called me a “dra

He was brilliant and brave, and he was willing to go a long way on Jerusalem and on territory. It was clear to both of us that Starr was trying to create a firestorm to force me from office. My approval ratings were rising again, and American Airlines announced the settlement of its five-day-old strike. There was not much thaw on the family front.