21/04/2026 22:19

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My acceptance speech was easy to give because of the record: the lowest combined rate of unemployment and inflation in twent By January, I had been working for more than three months with the Syrian foreign minister, Farouk al-Shara, and by telephone with President Assad to set the stage for the talks. ification of the Chemical Weapons Convention; and strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention. He was the only member of the Israeli delegation who would not shake hands with Arafat.

My great-grandfather Lem Grisham came to visit me in the hospital when I broke my leg, March 1952. The next day, at the White House Conference on Small Business, several Republicans said the same thing. Albright and Ross then went to Damascus to urge President Assad to respond to Barak’s desire for peace talks with him soon. The aid package was four times what the previous administration had allocated and three times what I had originally recommended.