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d domestic policy were overshadowed by the demise of health-care reform and an obsession with bogus scandal. The Kosovar Albanians wanted independence. The most memorable evening for me was a dinner at Bill and Rose Styron’s, where the guests of honor were the superb Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and my literary hero, Gabriel García Márquez. After Al Gore was nominated by acclamation, he gave a rip-roaring speech, which he began by saying he’d dreamed as a boy grow

I walked on the beach, played touch football with the kids and golf with my friends, went to the panels, and enjoyed the company. 5 percent. It couldn’t have come at a better time. We trusted each other and had accomplished a lot together.