08/03/2026 22:08

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I did visit with the Speaker and the congressional delegation, as a photograph of Newt, Bob Dole, and me talking on the plane showed. It was hard to know why he had moved so little. Most of us had been up for almost forty hours straight and could have used a nap and shower, but it was In the press conference afterward, Yeltsin expressed his appreciation for the American aid package and the one approved at the Tokyo G-7 meeting

And I had given late-night TV hosts fodder for years of jokes. He was eating and working when he choked on a peanut and stopped breathing for about forty seconds, until Gid Gernstein, the youngest member of his delegation, administered the Heimlich maneuver. The staff director was Gerald Stern, who was on leave from his job as executive vice president of Occidental Petroleum. I had to work hard to keep my anger in check, and I didn’t always succeed.