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deputy secretary of state. I don’t think five people could repeat Strobe’s title, but everybody
knew what he did: he was our “go to&rdquo,Storefront oil painting; man on Russia. For eight years, he was by my side in
all my meetings with Presidents Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, eighteen with Yeltsin alone.

what the Duma did. I watched the speech on one of two television sets in my private dining
Since Strobe spoke fluent Russian and took copious notes, his participation with me and hi
own interactions with the Russians guaranteed a precision and accuracy in our work that
would prove invaluable. Strobe chronicles our eight-year odyssey in his bookThe Russia
Hand,Michael Jackson painting, which is remarkable not only for its insights but for the verbatim accounts of the
colorful conversations I had with Yeltsin. Unlike what happens in most books of the genre,
the quotes are not reconstructions; they are,Lighthouse oil painting, for good or ill,Painting From Photo, what we actually said. Strob
main point is that I became my own &ldquo,oil paintings;Russia hand&rdquo,Animal oil painting; because, while not an expert on Russi
knew “one big thing: on the twin iss
and I were, “in principle, on the same side.&rdquo,American oil painting;
During the transition period, I had talked to Strobe a lot about the deteriorating situation in
Russia and the imperative of averting disaster. At Renaissance Weekend, Strobe and his wife,
Brooke,Piano oil painting, who had campaigned full-time with Hillary and was about to become head of the
White House Fellows program,Artists oil painting, were jogging with me on Hilton Head beach. We wanted to
talk about Russia, but the leader of our group, the great Olympic hurdler Edwin Moses,Landscape oil painting, set
such a brisk pace that I couldn’t keep up and talk at the same time. We came upon Hillary
taking her morning walk, so the three of us had an
everything progressive Yeltsin did, it was facing strong opposition in the Duma. I told Stro
that things were changing so much in Russia that we couldn’t have a completely defensive
strategy; we had to help solidify and accelerate positive developments, especially those that
would improve the Russian economy.
In February, I went over to Strobe&rsquo,oil painting wholesale;s house one night to see his family and talk about Russi
Strobe told me about a recent meeting he’d had with Richard Nixon, in which the former
President had urged us to support Yeltsin heavily. The billion assistanc
financial institutions wouldn’t release the money until Russia had restructured its economy.
We needed to do something now.
In early March, Yeltsin and I agreed to meet on April 3 and 4 in Vancouver, Canada. On
March 8, Richard Nixon called on me at the White House to urge me p
raised a Quaker and that his daughters, like Chelsea, had gone to Sidwell Friends School,African oil painting, h
got down to business, saying I would be remembered as President more for what I did with
Russia than for my economic policy. Later that night, I called Strobe to report on the Nixon
conversation and to stress again how important it was that we do something at Vancouver to
help Russia, with a high-impact follow-up at the annual G-7 summit in Tokyo in July. All
through March, as I got updates from our foreign policy team and Larry Summers and his
assistant David Lipton at Treasury, I pushed them to think bigger and do more.
Meanwhile,Michael Jackson paintings, in Moscow, the Duma was reducing Yeltsin’s power and endorsing the fruitle
inflationary policies of the Russian Central Bank. On March 20, Yeltsin struck back with a
speech announcing a public referendum for April 25 to determine whether he or the Duma ra
the country; until then, he said, his presidential decrees would remain in ef

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