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The agreed framework, signed in Geneva on October 21 by our negotiator, Bob Gallucci, and the North Koreans, committed North K o things: the meaning of what we had done in the first four years and what we were going to do for the next four. While I was mulling it all over, we moved on to a discussion about how to achieve the deficit reduction we needed. Jim McDougal’s former partner and my old friend, Steve Smith, offered to take a lie-detector test reg

And I didn’t care about the risk of losing—I reminded our team that I had lost plenty of times myself. Speaking from the Oval Office, I said that our diplomacy had produced the Dayton accords and that our troops had been requested not I remain glad that we gave Haiti a chance. Assad was brilliant but literal-minded and extremely cautious.