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Bill Clinton: “Well, first of all, I have taken and may have to take--I've already taken, I think, a dozen foreign trips this year. It…”

On the recordNovember 30, 1999
Well, first of all, I have taken and may have to take--I've already taken, I think, a dozen foreign trips this year. It is a major event. I think my interest in Latin America is well-known, but I may have to take yet another trip before the end of the year, and about that time, which is why I asked President Carter and Secretary Albright to head our delegation. I think that President Carter deserves enormous credit for his leadership in getting the Panama Canal Treaty through. It was, at the time, as you remember, very controversial, immensely unpopular. A lot of Members in the Senate were--had their seats put in peril over it. And I think it----
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Bill Clinton
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