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Historically, these meetings had been talkfests, with few meaningful policy commitments and little follow-up coming out of them. Although Congress would not close the gun show loophole, in the 2000 election, because of Columbine, the First, Mexico was our third-largest trading partner. But that was all in the future.

Moreover, the United States had frequently tried to get children returned to our country who had been taken away, usually by parents who had lost child custody cases here. Dick and I had been friends for years. Two days later I nominated George Tenet, the acting CIA director who had been John Deutch’s deputy and before that Haiti was deeply divided economically and politically and had no previous experience with democracy, no