09/03/2026 01:00

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In just eleven weeks, my family and I had to make the transition from our life in Arkansas into the White House. We went on a safari in Chobe National Park and saw lions, elephants, impalas, hippos, crocodiles, and more than twenty different species of birds. Bruce Babbitt, Al Gore, and I had done our best to be faithful to Roosevelt’s conservation ethic and to his admonition that we should always be taking what he called “the long look ahead. After my father’s death, my mother with her own hands cleared a small piece of rugged land.

A few days later, Janet Reno asked Ken Starr to investigate the files case. To show I was serious about deficit reduction, I invited Alan Greenspan to sit with Hillary in the First Lady’s box in the House gallery. In 1993, because Japan was dealing with economic stagnation and political uncertainty, I knew it would be hard to get changes in trade policy, but I had to try. The operation was not approved by General Hoar at CentCom or by the Pentagon.