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I had been raised not to look down on anyone and not to blame others for my own problems or shortcomings. I ordered the evacuation of all Americans and sent troops to guarantee their safety. Pride goeth before the fall. tion, which I thought would go a long way toward protecting America from terrorist attacks with poison gas.

The love and support of friends and strangers made a big difference; those who wrote to me or said a kind word in a crowd meant more than they will ever know. Helen Thomas of United Press International, the senior White House correspondent, asked me: “If you had it to do over again, wou The previous day I had announced that I would not travel to North Korea to close the agreement banning its production of long-ra permitted the kind of “proximity talks” that allowed Holbrooke and his team to hammer out the tough details.