Just before I got up to speak, almost all the delegates raised their hands in support of removing the provision calling for the destruction of Israel from their charter. There were compelling arguments for it, but the most important domestic decision of my presidency was still one big gamble. d alone, and, after the government shutdown battle, had shown flexibility in working out honorable compromises with the White House. Rubin was just the man to do it.
The White House had been deeply involved in the issue for years. Nunn spoke to members of Haiti’s parliament; Powell told the Haitian military leaders in graphic terms what would happen if the United States invaded; and Carter worked on Cedras. After Chirac assured me that when the tests were completed he would support the treaty, we moved on to Bosnia, where he was inclined to be tougher on the Serbs than Mitterrand had been. not to defend me but to defend the Constitution, “the most sacred document to me next to the Holy Bible.
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