The President's News Conference
12/07/1999
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The Committee bill would not provide the requested extension of authority to transfer prior-year funds for former Soviet Union threat reduct...
I have emphasized to them that every nation involved in that, from the beginning, was in it with the understanding that our first goal was t...
We were not asked to go to Somalia to establish a protectorate or a trust relationship or to run the country.
In the end every peacekeeping mission or every humanitarian mission has to have a date certain when it's over.