Part 48 (2/2)

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Serving as President Reagan's Special Envoy for the Law of the Sea Treaty, I met with two old friends in Tokyo: U.S. Amba.s.sador to j.a.pan and former Democratic leader of the Senate Mike Mansfield of Montana and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, with whom I had worked when I served as a member of the j.a.panese-American Parliamentary Exchange fifteen years earlier.

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President Reagan asked me to serve as his Middle East envoy days after the terrorist attack on the Marine barracks outside Beirut, Lebanon, in October 1983. Reagan was deeply distressed over the loss of American lives. If in the end the problem of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel proved as intractable for his administration as for others, it was not for lack of will on the President's part.

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With Jack Kemp (left), Howard Baker, and Colin Powell discussing the 1996 presidential campaign. While our candidate, Bob Dole, had long experience in government and a compelling personal story of service, we were never able to challenge the personal charm and easy manner of his opponent, Bill Clinton.

42.

As the year 2000 approached, Joyce and I thought we were moving into our rural period, Taos, New Mexico.

43.

d.i.c.k Cheney and I were both amazed to find ourselves serving together in another administration some three decades after our time together at OEO. Cheney marked the occasion by signing this old photograph.

44.

My second swearing-in as secretary of defense, this time with my old friend and colleague Judge Larry Silberman doing the honors.

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With Colin Powell, d.i.c.k Cheney, and Condi Rice at the Pentagon, March 2001. From the beginning of the Bush administration the four of us met weekly for lunch when we were in town, and Colin, Condi, and I had a regular telephone call each morning. I respected them all.

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The Pentagon, September 11, 2001.

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