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...Still, the decision to prosecute went all the way to the White House Situation Room - except it was never really discussed once it got there. According to two participants in the two-hour Dec. 4 session, chaired by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and attended by more than a dozen officials, the conversation was not so much about whether to go forward as about just how damaging it would be to discuss the loss of the crown jewels in court. "We didn't know any other way [to find out what happened to the tapes]," says a participant. "The whole...
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...
...WILLIAM COHEN had quietly slipped into the White House earlier and was waiting to speak to him. The two talked for an hour in the Oval Office and arrived at a tentative conclusion before Clinton headed for the links. He had further discussions Wednesday on Air Force One with Berger and chief of staff JOHN PODESTA as they returned from a one-day visit to Colombia, and the final decision was made Thursday...
...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...
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...