more police, the Lands Legacy initiative, our commitments under the Wye River accord, and the new debt-relief initiative for the poorest countries. Starr issued an indignant statement complaining that Hillary had questioned his motives. But the Congressional Budget Office would not give credit for these savings in any budget we presented. Robert Fiske had been removed as the Whitewater independent counsel on the tenuous claim that his appointment by Janet Reno created the appearance of a conflict of interest.
I knew he hadn’t done anything wrong and hoped someday he would be able to forgive me for the mess I had gotten him into. By the middle of the month, Dick Holbrooke had persuaded the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia to agree on a set of basic principles as a framework to settle the Bosnian conflict. Random House Inc. I told the people who’d slaved away at the party work without glory or recognition how much I appreciated them.
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