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At night we watched movies and bowled. I was also exhausted. Obuchi had been a friend to me, and to America. dent Fernando de la Rúa of Argentina—as we outlined the kinds of progressive partnerships leaders of developed and developing countries should form.

With Hastert’s strong support, I had gotten more than $1 billion from Congress to do our part. I didn’t want to, because it would take about half of everything Hillary and I had saved over twenty years, and because I Democrats had worked black churches like that for years, but the Christian Coalition, at least in Georgia, was particularly effective at it, changing the outcome by 5 percent in both 1992 and 1996. Al Gore basically agreed with me.