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Roger Altman came over from Treasury with his chief of staff, Josh Steiner, to set up a “war room” to organize the campaign for final passage. And he had been a great education governor. In foreign policy, I asked for support for the expansion of NATO; the North Korean nuclear agreement; the ex rocess, but that, given the complexity and novelty of many of our challenges, led to better decisions.

On January 3, I sat in the Senate with Chelsea and the rest of Hillary’s family as Al Gore administered the oath of office to New York’s new senator. d by 17 votes, 50–50, with all the Democrats and Republican senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, J On the twenty-fourth, I was back home, but not out of foreign affairs. On the day the story broke, I did a previously scheduled interview with Jim Lehrer for the PBSNewsHour.