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I also named Bob Reich labor secretary. Because the election had not been in doubt for several weeks, it was easy to miss its significance. After Al Gore plainly bested Ross Perot in a heavily watched TV debate on NAFTA, it passed the House, 234–200. On June 13, I appeared before the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition.

I knew Freeh was a Republican, but Nussbaum assured me that he was a professional and a stand-up guy who would not use the FBI for political purposes. In this case, India had strongly refused the involvement of any outside party. I said globalization imposed on its beneficiaries the responsibility of sharing its gains and its burdens and empowering more people to participate in it. I sympathized with them.