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Hillary and I immediately left for Jordan with a delegation that included Presidents Ford, Carter, and Bush. I’ve regretted it ever since. An Irish reporter said, “It usually seems to take a visit from you to give the peace process a boost. It was a persuasive argument except for one thing: the surpluses were projected and the tax cuts would take effect whether the surpluses materialized or not.

So were they. Now if we were going to get this done, Arafat had some compromising of his own to do on concrete matters: H Rahm’s great gift was putting ideas into action. Second, as Gingrich had shown with the “Contract with America” in 1994, if the public believed one party had a positive agenda and the other didn’t, the party with the plan would win.