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Izetbegovic was also in the White House on the twenty-sixth to meet with Al Gore, whose national security aide, Leon Fuerth, was responsible for our success in making the embargo more effective. Mercifully, it was over before long, and we walked downstairs to start the ceremony. The National Economic Council represented the biggest change in White House operations in years, and thanks to Rubin, it would serve America well. Jordan was a great golfer, a long if sometimes erratic driver who also had a great short game.

We had leased a wonderful old train we dubbed the “21st Century Express” for the trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana to Chicago. Certainly they had different notions of what was important. at the onset of a confrontation with a religious cult, the Branch Davidians, at their compound outside Waco, Texas. I then said, “You have to decide whether you want change or not.