09/02/2026 05:01

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I thought she had earned the chance to be the first female secretary of state. In politics, if you don’t toot your own horn, it usually stays untooted. In December, when the members of the World Trade Organization met in Seattle, violent protests from anti-globalization forces rocked the downtown area. Regardless, he had gotten himself into a bind with no easy way out.

They all cautioned restraint, because Yeltsin was stretching the limits of his constitutional authority, and because he might lose. December 22 was Dee Dee Myers’s last day as press secretary. Since Russia depended on the financial support of the international community, they felt it shouldn’t be in on the G-7’s financial decision making. Then Bradley began to attack him harshly.