In mid-July, Al Gore and I held an event at the National Academy of Sciences to highlight our administration’s efforts to avoid computer meltdowns at the dawn of the new millennium. If it had come at Shepherdstown, an agreement might have emerged. But Hillary, Tony, and Chelsea preferred our old standby, pinochle. ike Ross, who had served as my driver in the 1982 governor’s campaign and was running against Republican congressman Jay Dickey.
If the policy succeeded, it could create the problem economists call “moral hazard. Arafat was famous for waiting until the very last minute to make a decision, or “five minutes to midnight” as we used to say. These were fair questions from young people who wanted their country to change but were still proud of it. We had an enjoyable dinner, and Ehud and I stayed up talking until nearly three in the morning.
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