theater to increase his prestige, but in the end I agreed that we ought to keep reaching out to him. The office makes all arrangements for the press when they travel with the President, and bills their employers for the costs. I came away from the meeting believing Yeltsin had picked a successor who had the skills and capacity for har David Kendall had been at Yale Law School with us.
Helmut Kohl took us to visit his hometown, Ludwigshafen, before I flew to Ramstein Air Base to see our troops, many of whom would soon be leaving the military in the post–Cold War downsizing. One of them was my friend and ally Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who had lost an arm and very nearly his life in the war. About an hour into the trip, at the top of a steep incline, the road gave way on the APC, and it somersaulted down the mountain and exploded into flames. War II, followed by Hillary’s trip to Beijing to address the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.
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