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Then Hillary, Chelsea, and I had a real treat when Nelson Mandela came to our suite for a visit. He wouldn’t take the call, so I publicly and repeatedly apologized. The President has five military aides, one outstanding young officer from each service branch; one of them is near him at all times. d in implementing the harsh policies I had stopped in the budget battles, beginning with the government shutdown.

Shortly before the inauguration, in preparation for the second term and the State of the Union, I had gathered abo On the ninth, I went back to Worcester, Massachusetts, the city that had welcomed me in the dark days of August 1998, for the funeral of six firefighters who had been killed in action. at our chief of naval operations, Admiral Mike Boorda, had died that afternoon of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On the other hand, the IRA was a tough nut to crack, full of hard men who had built a life on hatred of the British and