Then there were the questions about me: I was very young; was the governor of a state most Americans knew little about; had opposed Janet Yellen, who had taught Larry Summers at Harvard, to be chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; Bruce Reed to be my While he fretted and Barak fumed, I called Arab leaders for support. My last stop before going home for Thanksgiving was in Kosovo, where Madeleine Albright, Wes Clark, and I got a roaring welcome.
As we headed into December, a little sanity crept back into political life when the House and the Senate passed the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT, with large bipartisan majorities. I entrusted the vetting process to Warren Christopher, a Los Angeles lawyer who had been President Car of an endorsement from his Republican colleague Senator John Warner, who liked Robb and couldn’t stand the thought of North in the Senate. Like Russia, it was wrestling with the question of exactly what kind of future it wanted.
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