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Defining moments like that don’t happen by accident. I thought he was the right man to lead our forces in the post–Cold War world, especially given all the problems in Bosnia. When the Rainbow Coalition brought us on virtually back to back, I decided I had to speak up. Bruce Babbitt, Al Gore, and I had done our best to be faithful to Roosevelt’s conservation ethic and to his admonition that we should always be taking what he called “the long look ahead.
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