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As I stood in the Oval Office discussing it with Hillary, George Stephanopoulos, Tony Lake, and Martin Indyk, Tony said he knew a way I could shake hands with Arafat while avoiding a kiss. Arafat wanted a UN committee and immediate resumption of the talks. Mladic wanted to take the three towns so that all of eastern Bosnia would be controlled by the Serbs, and he was Unfortunately, what should have been a life-affirming event was marked by yet another tragedy, as I announced th

Historically, these meetings had been talkfests, with few meaningful policy commitments and little follow-up coming out of them. We went on like that for an hour and a half, discussing taxes, defense, the deficit, jobs and the changing economy, foreign policy 9 percent the same. In December, I got down to the business that people hire Presidents to do: making decisions.