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I asked Les Aspin to be secretary of defense after it became clear that Sam Nunn wouldn’t accept the appointment. Her Majesty impressed me as someone who, but for the circumstance of her birth, might have become a successful politician or diplomat. If the Palestinians got the right to vote, given their higher birthrate, within a few decades Israel would no longer be a Jewish state. On July 4, I told Sharif that unless he did more to help, I would have to announce that Pakistan was in effect supporting terrorism in Afghanistan.

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