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There was even division within the administration. After Haiti’s elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by Lieutenant General Raoul Cedras and his allies in 1991, Haitian sympathizers of Aristide had begun to flee the island. Ross said he was supported by the people, not parties or special interests. John gave the White House an exceptionally able leadership team, with Deputy Chiefs of Staff Steve Ricchetti and Maria Echaveste and his aide, Karen Tramontano.

The congressional Republicans’ first priority was building a national missile defense system, but I said the main threa On June 6, my mother’s birthday, I gave the commencement address at Chelsea’s graduation ceremony at Sidwell Friends School. Now that the American people had given us another term, I was hoping that in the next four years we would be freer to do the public’s business without the turmoil and strife of the first term. One thing that surprised me was how hard he pushed me to pardon Jonathan Pollard, a former U.