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We saw eye to eye on most things, and I enjoyed the meeting, as well as my first visit to Portugal. In a phrase, my policy was “Mend it, but don’t end it. I had pledged to take these actions in the campaign, and I believed in them. DS policy, which included a 30 percent increase in overall AIDS funding, and I outlined a series of new initiatives to combat AIDS.

After Waco, I resolved to go with my gut. Shimon Peres and Leah Rabin were there, too. The ratio was about ten to one. Despite my best efforts for the last eight years, that kind of work still seemed to be in strong demand.