12/03/2026 09:28

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At the White House, I welcomed the new president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana, and supported his courageous efforts to end the decades-old conflict with guerrilla groups. She was only sixty-four. My last stop before going home for Thanksgiving was in Kosovo, where Madeleine Albright, Wes Clark, and I got a roaring welcome. My philosophy on pardons and commutations of sentences, developed while I was attorney general and gov

That night, in a televised address from the Oval Office, I made one last pitch for public support for the plan, saying it woul didn’t feel well that day and certainly wasn’t looking forward to my encounter with the Rutherford Institute lawyers. vars didn’t want to agree to accept autonomy unless they were also guaranteed a referendum on independence. Finally, with Lott’s support, the CWC was ratified, 74–26.