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On November 29, as I was making my way to Ireland, Senator D’Amato’s committee called L. We didn’t know how long he would last, and I could stay only a day. In the week before I left, I nominated UN Ambassador Bill Richardson to succeed Federico Peña as secretary of energy, and Dick Holbrooke to become the new UN ambassador. Finally, Kohl was deeply troubled by Europe’s passivity in Bosnia and thought, as I did, that the United Nations should lift the arms embargo because it was unfair to the Bosnian Muslims.

Tennessee had been growing increasingly Republican. Aboard Air Force One, on my way to California, I called Yeltsin with a message of support. For the next several months, David had a calming impact on the White House, immediately moving to improve relations wi are of some state business and thank the governor’s staff for the fine job they had done while I was away.