Bill Clinton: “No, no. Lebanon was not the price for peace. He agreed that as part of a comprehensive peace agreement, we should…”

“No, no. Lebanon was not the price for peace. He agreed that as part of a comprehensive peace agreement, we should implement the Taif accord which, as you know, calls for an independent Lebanon, free of all foreign forces. And President Asad clearly said that if he could be satisfied from his point of view in having a comprehensive peace agreement with Israel, Israel would also have to have an agreement with Lebanon, an agreement with Jordan, and obviously the agreement with the PLO, and that Lebanon in the end would be left a free and independent state, independent of all foreign forces. We talked about that quite explicitly, and he was quite clear in saying that he would support that. President Hafiz al-Asad of Syria Mr. King. Was it tough to sit with Asad, who has been on a list of-- as a terror leader for years? I mean, I know Presidents have to do things--was that hard?”