There was some pressure applied to the president not to go to the Olympics. But, as you know, he is saying it would be a slight to China. A group of us, a congressional delegation, were trying to go for the first week, then go to Mongolia and go on to Tibet. But since the conflict occurred, we changed that. We thought that it wouldn’t be good symbolically for us to go at all. If we still complained about human rights, then I don’t think it would be right for us to go.

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