When he failed, he had asked the United States to help him defeat them with Plan Colombia. To head that off, I asked Warren Christopher to contact Rabin and Arafat and invite them to send negotiators to Washi For the last time, I introduced the people sitting with Hillary who represented what we were trying to The army’s Tenth Mountain Division, headquartered in Fort Drum, New York, also had troops in Somalia under the overall commander of U.
They were my friends, and I just didn’t want to embarrass them publicly. In between, I dedicated a statue of Franklin Roosevelt in his wheelchair at the FDR Memorial on the Mall. On the same day, by a bipartisan majority of 58–41, the Senate voted to support the action. President Bush went just before me, with the Marine Band, under Colonel John Bourgeois, playing “Hail to the Chief” for both of us.
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