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I wanted to bring together not only the tax and budget functions of Treasury and the OMB, but also the work of the Commerce Department, the Office of the U. Overcome with grief, I went back upstairs to be with Hillary for a couple of hours. In addition to our regular Middle East team, I asked Hillary’s aide, Huma Abedin, to join us. President Carter also helped, calling members of Congress all day long for a week.

my first foreign stop, and the rest of my team said it would divert attention from our domestic agenda. Hillary and I ended our Washington stay with a dinner party given by Pamela Harriman. I wanted Assad to know that I was committed to a Syrian-Israeli peace based on UN Resolutions 242 and I didn’t consider anyone other than Sandy Berger for the job of national security advisor.