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tary exercises, had not broken any laws, and I expressed appreciation for those who had condemned the bombing. The stocks of antibiotics and vaccines were inadequate, the quarantine laws were antiquated, the public-health systems were in bad shape, and the state emergency plans were not well developed. Hillary then described how we’d failed in Arkansas in my first term by doing too many things at once, without a clear story line and an effort to prepare people for a long, sustained struggle. As we had learned from our experience in Bosnia, even after the conflict there would still be a great deal of work ahe

For example, in the Watergate case, the House Judiciary Committee voted against impeaching President Nixon for alleged income tax evasion because it had nothing to do with his performance in office. Then the Syrian negotiations faltered. The jury didn’t know about the money and support Hale had been receiving from a clandestine effort known as the Arkansas Project. As for my management style, I knew I had a lot to learn, and I had used the transition to absorb as much about as many aspects of the President’s job as I could.