Word: bergere
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Thanks to the machinations of White House press secretary JOE LOCKHART and National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER, most reporters didn't even know the decision was coming until just hours before Clinton revealed it at a hastily scheduled speech at Georgetown University Friday...
...summer drizzle. Then it was back to Andrews Air Force base at 7 a.m. Wednesday for a day trip to Cartagena, Colombia (nine hours in the air, nine hours on the ground). The grueling schedule left some of the aides who took both trips, like National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and chief of staff John Podesta, noticeably dragging as they traipsed along with the official delegation. In a concession to those who haven't had time to do laundry - and to the steamy coastal heat of Cartagena - Clinton declared a Casual Wednesday and boarded Air Force One without...
Even the summit's death seemed odd. It came at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Saeb Erakat, a top aide to Yasser Arafat, walked into the living room of Aspen Lodge, where Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger sat, and read them a letter from the Palestinian leader. Arafat saw no use continuing talks on an agreement to end 52 years of conflict with Israel. Sovereignty over Jerusalem and its holy sites was the stumbling block. "The problem is they both want the same thing," Albright said later in an interview with TIME...
...reach an agreement." Clinton stared at him vacantly. "I don't like to fail, particularly at this," he said softly. But he and the others were too spent to even feel sad. Clinton had been up almost 48 hours in a final diplomatic surge; Albright and Berger had had so many emotional highs and lows in the previous two weeks that they were numb. In nearby Laurel Lodge, where meals were served, Palestinian and Israeli diplomats had already begun hugging one another and apologizing. Relations between Arafat and Barak remained frosty, but their negotiators have grown close over the years...
When Clinton returned to Camp David on Sunday evening, July 23, he decided to plunge into assembly-line diplomacy, meeting with small teams of Palestinian and Israeli negotiators to tackle each issue. Scribbling on yellow pads, Clinton began losing even Berger and Albright in the details, but gradually he made progress. By 5 a.m. Monday, with CIA Director George Tenet at his side, he had the two sides tentatively agreeing on new Israeli security measures once land was transferred. Next he brought in the negotiating teams for refugees, then for borders...