Briefing in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with my Middle East team: Madeleine Albright, Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Rob Malley, Bruce Reidel, and Sandy Berger. Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste is at far right.
With the economic team in the Oval Office
Playing cards with Bruce Lindsey, Doug Sosnik, and Joe Lockhart on Marine One
My legal team: Cheryl Mills, Bruce Lindsey, David Kendall, Chuck Ruff, and Nicole Seligman
With White House valets Fred Sanchez and Lito Bautista, my doctor Connie Mariano, valet Joe Fama, and Oval Office steward Bayani Nelvis
Oval Office steward Glen Maes shows Al and me the cake he made for my birthday.
Playing with Buddy and my nephews Zachary and Tyler on the South Lawn
Socks briefing the press
South African president Nelson Mandela and I in the cell on Robben Island, where he had spent the first eighteen of his twenty-seven years in captivity
With Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi in Tokyo
With Chinese president Jiang Zemin in the Oval Office
The Vallenato Children performing in Cartagena, with Chelsea and the president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana
The G-8 meeting in Denver: (left to right) Jacques Delors, Tony Blair, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Helmut Kohl, Boris Yeltsin, me, Jacques Chirac, Jean Chrétien, Romano Prodi, and Wim Kok
With the cabinet: (first row) Bruce Babbitt, William Cohen, Madeleine Albright, me, Larry Summers, Janet Reno; (second row) George Tenet, Togo West, Bill Richardson, Andrew Cuomo, Alexis Herman, Dan Glickman, John Podesta, William Daley, Donna Shalala, Rodney Slater, Richard Riley, Carol Browner; (back row) Thurgood Marshall, Jr., Bruce Reed, James Lee Witt, Charlene Barshefsky, Martin Baily, Jack Lew, Barry McCaffrey, Aida Alvarez, Gene Sperling, and Sandy Berger
With Tony Blair at Chequers
Hillary and I touring a Kosovar refugee camp in Macedonia
Hillary and I with a newborn child named Bill Clinton in Wanyange, Uganda
Addressing a crowd of more than 500,000 in Independence Square, Ghana
Commemorating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, by crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, John Lewis, and other veterans of the civil rights movement who had marched arm in arm with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hillary, Chelsea, and I at an MIA excavation site in Vietnam, with the Evert family
Being showered with rose petals in a traditional ceremony in Naila, India
Camp David Middle East peace summit, with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Chairman Yasser Arafat, and my Arabic translator and Middle East advisor, Gemal Helal
With Gerry Adams, John Hume, and David Trimble on St. Patrick’s Day 2000
Addressing a crowd in Market Square, Dundalk, Northern Ireland
Bringing the Internet into America’s classrooms, with Dick Riley
With my presidential aides Doug Band, Kris Engskov, Stephen Goodin, and Andrew Friendly
The special agents in charge, presidential protective division, United States Secret Service, with Nancy Hernreich, director of Oval Office Operations, and my secretary Betty Currie
Celebrating with my staff after my final address to the nation
February 7, 2000: Hillary announces her campaign for the Senate
Chelsea and I wait for Hillary as she casts her first vote as a candidate, Chappaqua, New York.
My last moments in the Oval Office after placing the traditional letter to its next occupant on the
THIRTY-NINE
J une brought the first real action from Robert Fiske. He had decided to conduct an independent inquiry into Vince Foster’s death since so many questions had been raised about it in the media and by Republicans in Congress. I was glad Fiske was looking at it. The scandal machine was trying to get blood out of a turnip, and maybe this would shut them up and give Vince’s family some relief. Some of the charges and antics would have been funny except for the tragedy involved. One of the loudest and most sanctimonious of the “Foster was murdered” crowd was Republican congressman Dan Burton of Indiana. In an attempt to prove that Vince couldn’t have killed himself, Burton went out in his backyard and shot a revolver into a watermelon. It was nutty. I never could figure out what Burton was trying to prove.
Fiske interviewed Hillary and me. It was a straightforward, professional session, and afterward I knew he would be thorough and believed he would finish his inquiry in a timely fashion. On June 30, he issued preliminary findings on Vince’s death, as well as on the much-ballyhooed conversations between Bernie Nussbaum and Roger Altman. Fiske said that Vince’s death was a suicide and found no evidence that it had anything to do with Whitewater. He also found that Nussbaum and Altman had not acted improperly.
