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The press was still buzzing about campaign finance abuses. It was a reasonable thing to do. I thought he was the right man to lead post–Soviet Russia, and I left the meeting convinced I could work with him if I succeeded in disappointing him about the outcome of the election. I’m sure we could have handled it better, but so could they.

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