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Upstate, suburban voters and men strongly supported Pataki, the poll said,
while Mrs. Clinton had the support of New York City voters and women.
Asked which Republican they would favor in a primary for the U.S. Senate, 45
percent picked Pataki, 36 percent said Giuliani, and 8 percent said Lazio.
Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll said both Mrs. Lowey and Lazio have a lot
of work to do if they want to be serious candidates.
He said the two remain "virtually unknown in the shadow of giant
non-candidates."
Asked to give them a favorable or unfavorable rating, 80 percent of those
polled had no opinion of Mrs. Lowey and 79 percent had no opinion of Lazio.
Asked if it mattered to them that Mrs. Clinton may run for Senate in a state
she has never lived in, 48 percent of voters said it bothered them and 51
percent said it did not.
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She'll Do It Her Way
Clinton says she'll decide on a run at
'my own time'
By William Douglas
Washington Bureau
Washington - Hillary Rodham Clinton said she will
decide "in my own way and my own time" whether to run
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for the Senate, while Rep. Rick Lazio, a potential
First lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton will visit New York
Republican challenger, yesterday branded her a power-
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thirsty outsider.
"You can't have somebody representing New York
interests who is looking for this as a platform for power,"
Lazio (R-Brightwaters) said on ABC's "This Week." "And
shame on the Democrats, frankly, if they can't find
somebody who's from New York to actually run for the
Senate."
Lazio's broadsides came as Clinton begins a pivotal week
in deciding whether to run for the Senate seat to be vacated
next year by retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan and become the first sitting first lady to run for
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Rick Lazio (R-Brightwaters)
elective office.
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Clinton returns to New York today for her ninth visit this
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Lowey (D-Westchester), who is poised to run if the first
lady does not. The next day, Clinton heads to northern
Florida for a vacation with President Bill Clinton.
The first lady is to use the six-day vacation to decide
whether to run for the Senate or throw her support to
Lowey. Advisers say they expect her to run but not to
make a formal announcement until later in the year.
Clinton will likely signal her intent by forming an
exploratory committee by mid-June that will allow her to
raise funds to pay for her New York visits, according to
her advisers.
But Clinton said Saturday night that she has not made up
her mind. Speaking aboard Executive Foxtrot One, an Air
Force C-32 jet, while returning from a tour of the
Southwest, Clinton said, "There are so many issues that I
have to think about."
Although she has talked to more than 200 of New York's
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most influential politicians, union and civic leaders,
Clinton said she needs to talk to more average New
Yorkers.
"So I have to figure out a way to stage any sort of
decision-making so that I can spend time really out there
listening to people," she said. That is a big part of my
deciding whether this is something that makes sense."
Clinton said she does not feel pressure from state
Democrats who want to know whether she is in or out.
"I think it's very understandable that people in New York
want to know what my decision is, and I fully appreciate
that," Clinton said. "When I make this decision, I'm going
to be there 100 percent, whatever it is, and I'm not going
to, I hope, regret whatever decision it is.
"So I have to make it in my own way and my own time.
And I have to do it fitting it in with all the other things that
I am obligated to do, that I've been scheduled to do weeks
and months ahead."
A pressing and still unanswered question for Clinton is
how to perform her functions as first lady and still spend
enough time in New York to try to deflect the
"carpetbagger" label.
"Obviously, there are responsibilities that I will still have
in this position that I'll have to fulfill, but I would just not
take on any new ones," Clinton said.
Clinton would face another logistical headache: how to
campaign spontaneously under the blanket of Secret
Service protection.
As with the president, Secret Service agents travel
wherever the first lady goes. Agents travel days ahead of
her to check out places she is scheduled to go. Some of
Clinton's advisers say she fears that would hamper her
campaign style. The issue, the advisers say, remains
unresolved.
Unresolved, too, is where the Clintons would live in New
York. Both the first lady and the president said they had
thought about moving somewhere in the state once the
president's term expires.
Clinton's lack of a New York address -- and New York
roots - was foremost on Lazio's mind. He chastised her as
"someone who needs an exploratory committee to find
Elmira."
"This is someone who has never lived one day in her life
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in New York outside the Plaza Hotel, who never paid
[former New York Governor] Mario Cuomo's taxes,"
Lazio said.
When asked whether he was being used by Gov. George
Pataki and former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato as an instrument
against Giuliani, Lazio said no.
"I'm not the anti-candidate," Lazio said. "I'm in it because
I think I've been a good legislator."
Marsha Berry, Clinton's spokeswoman, declined to
comment yesterday on Lazio's assertions. But Lowey, who
also appeared on "This Week," defended the first lady.
"I think New Yorkers care what you stand for rather than
where you're from," Lowey said.
Clinton said Saturday that she's paid little attention to the
goings-on in the state Republican Party: The jockeying
between potential Senate candidates Lazio and New York
City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and the major
announcement Pataki is scheduled to make today.
"I haven't really had much time to focus on that," Clinton
said. "I have enough problems making my own mind up."
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to discuss the Senate race with her family.
"I say, bring her on," Lazio said yesterday on ABC-TV's
"This Week."
Before he gets to take on Clinton, however, Lazio will likely
have to face Mayor Giuliani in a Republican primary, and
yesterday he took a few shots at the mayor, too,
"I think he's a reluctant Republican. I think he's the wrong
candidate," Lazio said of Giuliani.
"We need somebody who has not endorsed Mario Cuomo,"
Lazio added in a reminder that Giuliani had crossed party
lines in 1994 to endorse Democrat Cuomo over George
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And in a dig at Giuliani's famous temper, Lazio repeatedly
emphasized that the Senate required somebody with the "right
temperament," "somebody willing to compromise and bring
people together."
Giuliani spokesman Matthew Higgins said the mayor "didn't
see the interview, so we don't have any comment."
The Senate spotlight will shift back to Clinton today when she
arrives in Manhattan.
She will raise at least $500,000 for Rep. Nita Lowey (D-
Westchester), who has said she will seek the Senate nod if
Clinton doesn't. Clinton will raise hundreds of thousands
more for whomever Democrats nominate for the Senate race.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y. said yesterday on NBC that
Clinton is "edging closer and closer to running."
But he cautioned that the First Lady would "have to put the
running for the Senate first, ahead of being First Lady."
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he was doing - - delivering a brutal wakeup call in such a
public way that even Gore's pollyannaish spinners couldn't
ignore the message.
True to their craft, nevertheless, some Gore courtiers now say
it was really just wonderful that their boss got zinged -
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presidential adviser. "He didn't mean any harm, and the fact is
he would never do Al Gore any harm — he has a huge
amount riding on Gore. But to put it mildly, this wasn't
helpful. Now the entire world knows that Gore's in serious
trouble - - and that Clinton is very worried about it."
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could hold out indefinitely is an elaborate system of
underground bunkers throughout Yugoslavia stockpiled with
supplies and equipment.
"The Yugoslavs are the premier bunker-builders," says one
administration official. "There are thousands of them scattered
throughout the country. They're so good at it, in fact, that
most of Saddam Hussein's bunkers were built by the
Yugoslavs."
Which is why U.S. intelligence agencies quietly sought out
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, on a tour of Southwest Colorado on
Monday, said he will seek federal money to help protect 156,000 acres of public
land west of Cortez that is home to the highest density of archaeological sites in
the nation.
"It is the most important archaeological landscape in the country," Babbitt said
of the area that abuts the Ute Mountain Ute Indian reservation to the north,
containing more than 100 sites per square mile.
Babbitt, with an entourage that included Colorado's director of the Bureau of
Land Management and the supervisor of the San Juan National Forest, was on a
fact-finding mission to determine the level of protection needed as more people
use the area that includes the Lowry Ruins, Mockingbird Mesa and Sand
Canyon.
"What's happening in Southwest Colorado is something I've seen take place in
Arizona," the former Arizona governor said. "An area that once was taken for
granted is becoming known to the outside world," causing a number of
problems.
Although there is gas development and grazing in the area - dubbed the Anasazi
Culture Multiple Use Area of Critical Environmental Concern - Babbitt said the
wells and the cows were "entirely compatible" with the archaeological area
because the BLM had done such a good job of mitigating their influences.
"Ironically, the real issue is people," he said, specifically the degradation to
cultural resources by pottery hunters, vandals and even the thoughtless kinds by
uninformed visitors.
"What we need is a certain presence to educate and inform people so there is no
unnecessary destruction of habitat," he said.
Babbitt was short of details for his plan, saying he would return at the end of
summer to see what stakeholders such as the Ute Mountain Utes, ranchers, oil
and gas developers and county commissioners had to say.
He said then a plan could be adopted to take before the president and Congress.
Babbitt's visit comes on the heels of charges by U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse
Campbell that Babbitt was considering a monument designation in Colorado,
possibly in Southwest Colorado, without sufficient public input.
Campbell said in a May 12 letter to Babbitt that he was particularly concerned
after the administration's "heavy-handed" monument designation of 1.7 million
acres for Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument two years ago.
On Monday, Babbitt did not rule out the monument designation, but did say:
"We learned some lessons in Utah - the need for getting on the ground and
talking to people, and making sure there is a better understanding of what needs
to be done."
When asked if Babbitt had any plans for the area, he said one of the great draws
of creating a national park was that it allowed people to take a few steps toward
educating themselves about the history of an area, but said that "I don't believe
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"It's too early to hazard a prediction of a management regime," he said.
Babbitt also said that he was not the first person to try and protect the area.
"I'm way behind Sen. Campbell, who recognize the problem in the 1980s" and
who supported establishing National Conservation Areas for similar lands in the
state, he said.
Ann Morgan, state director of the BLM, said there are thousands of unexcavated
sites in the Area of Critical Environmental Concern and that the task is how to
manage the area without endangering the artifacts.
"If we don't do something now, there may not be anything left 100 years from
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The historic preservation pot for fixing up Mesa Verde National Park was
sweetened by nearly $1.7 million, first lady Hillary Clinton announced Saturday
on the last leg of her Save America's Treasures tour of the Southwest.
Clinton's visit - the first to Mesa Verde by a sitting first lady - was geared to
raise awareness of how the private sector can help public parks.
"I am especially proud to announce both public and private support to help
stabilize and preserve the ancient cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park,"
said Clinton, who is the honorary chairwoman of the Millennium Committee to
Save America's Treasures.
"Through the Save America's Treasures public-private partnership, we are
giving an irreplaceable gift to future generations."
Clinton told the approximately 1,600 people in the Far View Terrace parking lot
that the money
will be used in part to match the $1.5 million federal grant that
was awarded to the park last Wednesday.
She said the money is largely from private contributions, with nearly $1 million
from one Connecticut family, with the balance from corporations such as Mobil
and American Express.
Clinton, who said she was wearing her 30-year-old hiking boots that she used to
wear in Rocky Mountain National Park, was honored by Robert Stanton, the
National Park Service director, with "the highest award the park service has," the
honorary ranger.
Clinton was then presented with the traditional green and gray ranger hat and
expressed surprise that, as the wife of a U.S. president, she was the first to visit
Mesa Verde.
"Eleanor Roosevelt usually is the one to have gone there first," she said and
laughed.
Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation - the
private-sector partner with the White House - said the National Park Service
only had enough money to maintain 40 to 50 of the more than 600 cliff
dwellings at Mesa Verde; a problem compounded by the 1996 fire that destroyed
some sites and left 400 previously unknown sites exposed to the elements.
"America's national parks clearly need more money," he said, and private-public
partnerships that have worked on preserving such historical sites as Ellis Island
and Thomas Edison's home are one solution.
Clinton echoed those sentiments, thanking Mesa Verde Superintendent Larry
Wiese "for waiving the fee so many people could come," but noting that it "is
bittersweet that the park has to charge" fees to preserve and maintain the area.
She said the preservation was crucial because "too often these treasures are
crumbling before our eyes," and the Mesa Verde artifacts tell a diverse history
that the world needs to hear.
It's also a living history for Fernando Cellicion, one of the performers from the
Zuni Pueblo Indians from Zuni, N.M.
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Cellicion said the Zuni are direct descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans who
first occupied the Mesa Verde region.
"A lot of people say the Anasazi died off, but a lot of people don't realize we're
still living," he said.
Cellicion's group - all members of the same clan - performed the Pottery Dance,
a tribute to the gracefulness of women derived from their daily practice of
carrying water.
"It's sad to say, but it's one of our dying dances," he said before the dancers took
the stage.
During the pottery dance, gusts of wind threatened to topple a pottery bowl one
dancer balanced on her head, prompting her to remove it for the duration of the
dance.
After the dance, Cellicion joked: "The dance is also dying because the pottery is
so expensive."
The Ute Mountain Ute tribal dancers and singers also performed, including
Fernessa Dutchie, 17, a sophomore at Ignacio High School.
She took part in a women's southern traditional dance, and later presented
Clinton with a gift necklace that had a beaded medallion at the bottom.
When asked how it felt to meet the first lady, she summed it up with a smile,
saying, "Nervous."
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on top of the ancient world Saturday morning when she became the
first first lady to visit the internationally renowned park of
1,400year-old cliff dwellings high on a mesa in southwestern
Colorado.
Clinton bore gifts of more than $3 million in public and private funds
for park preservation - - happily acknowledged by a crowd of about
2,000 drawn from the sparsely populated Four Corners.
"Usually, wherever I go in the world, Eleanor Roosevelt has been there
first," Clinton said. She jokingly told park officials to check their
records again to make sure Roosevelt hadn't beaten her. The
52,000-acre park, established in 1906, is visited by more than 600,000
people a year.
Wearing what she said were her 30-year-old hiking boots, Clinton
negotiated the steep staircases carved into sandstone walls leading into
Cliff Palace, the most famous of the park's ancestral cliff dwellings.
Her private tour was guided by Peter Pino, a tribal leader from Zia
Pueblo, one of 19 pueblos in New Mexico where descendants of Mesa
Verde's early inhabitants live today.
At Far View Terrace, which overlooks four states, Clinton met with her
public shortly after 10 a.m. National Park Service Director Robert
Stanton and Mesa Verde National Park Superintendent Larry Wiese
bestowed the service's highest civilian award, the title of "honorary
ranger." Clinton wore her new ranger's hat throughout the hour-long
ceremony.
Mesa Verde, once a settlement of 30,000 people, spanned the centuries
from 550 to 1300. More than 4,000 archaeological sites, including 600
cliff dwellings, have been identified in the park, many of them revealed
after a wildfire swept the mesa in 1996, damaging ruins and
threatening park facilities, said Richard Moe, president of the National
Trust for Historic Preservation. The Park Service has enough money to
regularly maintain only 40 to 50 sites at the park. Too many of
America's treasures are crumbling before our eyes but must be
preserved because they tell the story of who we are, Clinton said.
"Bob Stanton's history is very different from mine," Clinton said of the
African-American Park Service director. "And Peter Pino's history is
very different from mine, but we are all Americans. It's a story of
diversity that the world needs to hear.
"If we lose such places (as Mesa Verde), we lose our collective
memory. We lose our opportunity to understand and respect each
other."
The event offered its own contrast in cultures, with performances by
the Montezuma Cortez High School band and the Bala Sinem Indian
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Choir from Fort Lewis College. Zuni, Navajo and Ute Mountain Ute
dancers also entertained.
Clinton praised third-graders at Foothills Elementary in Boulder, who
performed "extra chores" to raise money for archaeological
preservation through their Adopt-A-Ruin program. Their teacher,
Marcy Lockhart, told them they could have "a hand in history," Clinton
said, and they've collected $2,750 for their cause.
Clinton announced help for the park in the form of a $1.5 million
federal grant and almost $1.7 million in private contributions through
the "Save America's Treasures" program, including a $1 million
donation by Sandra Wagenfield and Francine Goldstein, Connecticut
residents who attended Saturday's program.
Clinton said being an American at the beginning of a new millennium
is a blessing - but one that carries responsibilities.
"We can create a future worthy of all our ancestors," she said.
Acknowledging an important local anniversary, Clinton offered
condolences to Cortez Police Chief Roy Lane and to the family and
community that lost police officer Dale Claxton almost a year ago in a
hail of gunfire from men who vanished into the surrounding desert.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) It used to be that California was the home of wacky
politics, but New York seems to have taken the crown. Just look at what's
happened in the past couple of months.
The prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination to fill the U.S.
Senate seat being vacated next year by Daniel Patrick Moynihan is someone who
has never lived or worked in New York. Hillary Rodham Clinton has lived in
Illinois and Arkansas.
The front-running potential candidate for the Republican nomination for
Senate is one of the nation's best known politicians, has twice been elected
to the top job in a heavily Democratic region and has widely gotten credit for
turning around the nation's biggest city. But New York City Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani's biggest stumbling block to getting the nomination may be the
state's Republican governor even though he has said he doesn't want the job
himself.
Early in the past week, U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey of Westchester County
announces she will seek the Democratic Senate nomination if Mrs. Clinton
doesn't do SO. The same day, associates of the first lady say they believe the
president's wife will form an exploratory committee to help pursue her own
possible Senate bid. The developments come just five days before Mrs. Clinton
is due in New York City to star at a Monday night fund raiser to benefit the
congresswoman.
A special election Tuesday to fill a state Senate seat in Rockland and
parts of Orange counties has resulted in the state Legislature approving a
bill to strip New York City of at least $210 million annually in tax revenue
and possibly as much as $360 million. Giuliani has complained loudly. His
fellow Republican, Gov. George Pataki, has vowed to sign the commuter tax
repeal measure into law. All this stemming from a race that doesn't even
threaten control of the state Senate, where Republicans have a 35-25 edge even
before the special election. The New York Daily News editorially blamed ``the
jellyfish in Albany.
Pataki, in an attempt to boost his national standing among Republicans,
has been traveling around the country preaching the need for tolerance within
the GOP and party unity. At home, he is engaged in major battles with several
fellow Republicans, including Giuliani and New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman.
Staten Island's Republican Borough President Guy Molinari, a former
congressman and father of the woman who gave the keynote address at the 1996
Republican National Convention, former U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari, says the
Pataki administration is staffed by ``rank amateurs'' and that `maybe
Giuliani was not all wrong when he endorsed (then-Democratic Gov. Mario)
Cuomo'' in the 1994 governor's race won by Pataki.
In a speech to a bankers group, Manhattan Democrat Herman ``Denny''
Farrell says that when he became chairman of the powerful, budget-writing
Assembly Ways and Means Committee ``I found out that one and one is not two
One and one is whatever me and Shelly (Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver)
want it to be.
In August of last year, a powerful Brooklyn Democrat, state Assemblyman
Anthony Genovesi, was killed in a car crash. As is traditional, the state
Assembly arranges a tribute to Genovesi to be held in the chamber when it is
convenient for his family. The event is scheduled for Monday and his family,
including several very young grandchildren, come to the state Capitol. Silver
makes them wait until after debate is finished on the commuter tax repeal
bill. The tribute begins after 9 p.m. and doesn't wind up until after
midnight. The Republican minority leader complains about the ``shabby''
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they plan to ask: Who pays for her Big Apple trips?
BYLINE: Paul Barton / Gannett News Service
BODY:
WASHINGTON -- The man who will direct Republican campaigns for the Senate in
2000 said the GOP can hardly wait to take on First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
in a potential New York match.
Her candidacy, he said this week, would energize Republicans.
"The best day she will have will be the day before she announces," said Sen.
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial
Committee. McConnell's job is to raise money and help plan strategy for all GOP
Senate candidates.
A potential bid by Hillary Clinton for the Senate seat being vacated by the
retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has tantalized the nation's
capital, New York and national political circles for months.
The two most often mentioned Republican candidates to oppose her are New York
City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Rep. Rick Lazio from Long Island.
McConnell said neither is "cowered" by the thought of running against the
first lady.
Clinton is expected to use a Florida vacation with her husband later this
month to make a decision about entering the race, with an announcement coming in
early June.
The longer she plays with the idea, McConnell said, the more it seems she is
serious about running.
But Clinton's sudden adoption of New York for political purposes will be more
of a problem for her than Democrats think, he said.
"I think this widespread notion that New York is too sophisticated to care
is one of the problems the first lady will have," he said. "The second is
the government underwriting a campaign."
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McConnell hinted Republicans will make an issue of Clinton's frequent trips
to New York this year as first lady and will pose questions about how she would
separate her official duties from obvious campaign swings paid for by the
taxpayers.
"How many times do you go to New York over the course of three months," he
said.
The situation is a unique one in American political history, he said, adding
that there are no reimbursement formulas similar to the ones that
vice-presidents have to use when they are traveling on the government's tab and
running for president.
"I think it will rival the presidential race in terms of attention," he said,
adding, "It will be written about, talked about and discussed in every state in
America.'
Like Vice-President Al Gore's bid for the presidency, a Clinton Senate race
would serve as a referendum on the Bill Clinton years, he said.
Noting polls that show Gore running behind potential GOP nominees George W.
Bush and Elizabeth Dole, McConnell said, "It seems to me there is a kind of
fatigue factor with the Clinton years."
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BYLINE: By ELISABETH BUMILLER
BODY:
Hillary Rodham Clinton made a campaign-style trip yesterday into the heart of
the Long Island suburbs that would be crucial to winning a race for United
States Senate, then came back into Manhattan for two more events to finish off a
13-hour day.
But in a total of six appearances before such Democratic constituencies as
teachers, lawyers, women, Jews, members of minority groups and patrons of the
arts, Mrs. Clinton made no teasing references to her potential Senate race, as
she has in the past, and stayed within the bounds of First Lady.
Still, this First Lady's business is sometimes hard to distinguish from a
candidate's stump speech. In an address at Hofstra University in Hempstead, she
first mentioned her failure on pushing Congress to enact sweeping national
health care reform, then described herself as a new incrementalist.
"I come from the school of smaller steps now," she said, adding that 3.1
million New Yorkers have no health insurance and that 1,500 children in New York
may lose their insurance as they get older.
At a lunch for the Long Island Women's Agenda in Woodbury, Mrs. Clinton sat
next to Libby Pataki, the wife of Gov. George E. Pataki. The Republican Governor
has a quarrelsome relationship with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a potential rival
of Mrs. Clinton in a Senate race. The two women praised each other in their
speeches; Mrs. Pataki called herself "the warm-up act" for Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton started her day at the Village Elementary School in Syosset,
where she observed frogs in a classroom. "She did not seem to be playing to a
broader audience," said Jeffrey Rozran, president of the Syosset Teachers'
Association. "She was playing to this audience, and I'm grateful for that."
In the afternoon at the New York University School of Law, Mrs. Clinton
presented awards to Archishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Dr. Alexander
Boraine, a professor in the school's global law program. Dr. Boraine told the
First Lady that "who knows, we may see more of you in New York."
In the evening, Mrs. Clinton attended fund-raisers for the United Jewish
Appeal and the Whitney Museum. At the U.J.A. event, Mrs. Clinton, who once
created a stir with remarks suggesting support for a Palestinian state, simply
said she hoped everyone in the room supported the Clinton Administration's
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approach to the peace process. "We will stand behind any agreement the parties
can reach and, similarly, we will oppose any unilateral step that prejudges the
outcome of the negotiations," she said.
GRAPHIC: Photo: Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Hofstra University yesterday in
Hempstead, N.Y., where she was honored for her work in health care. With her,
front row, from left, were Harold Ickes, Basil A. Paterson and William J.
Cunningham 3d, all from the law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, the
award sponsor. Behind her was Anthony L. Watson of the Health Insurance Plan of
New York. (Vic DeLucia/The New York Times)
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WASHINGTON A top adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that she
likely will not announce in June whether she will run for the Senate from New
York, as has been widely speculated and may not do so until August.
Meanwhile, antsy and frustrated New York Democrats say Rep. Nita Lowey of
Westchester County, N.Y., who says she wants to run for the Senate but will
not challenge Clinton in the primary, is privately warning that she will not
wait on the first lady beyond July 4th.
No word from Clinton by then, the Democrats say, will be taken by Lowey as
evidence Clinton is gearing up for a Senate run and Lowey will announce she
will again run for the House.
Harold Ickes, the Washington lawyer and former White House chief of staff
who is counseling the first lady about a Senate run, said Friday she has not
decided and he doubts she will even take the initial step of forming a
campaign exploratory committee in June.
Clinton likely won't announce whether she will run until July, and perhaps
as late as August, he said.
She is still giving this very serious thought. It's a big decision for
her, Ickes said in an interview. ``I would not expect any definitive
indication one way or the other in June.
Lowey, since early this year, has repeatedly said she would ``defer'' to
the first lady, but otherwise would run in 2000 for the seat being vacated by
Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
In an interview Friday, Lowey denied setting a deadline for knowing what
the first lady will do. But she said, ``I've said I need to know sooner rather
than later.
Of the possibility that Clinton could wait until August to announce, Lowey
replied, "I would hope that she would make it sooner than that.
``I'll be talking to her in the coming weeks, Lowey said, adding that
she expects those conversations will clarify the situation.
Other Democrats say they have detected no animosity developing between the
two women. In fact, Clinton is to appear at a fund-raiser for Lowey Monday in
Manhattan.
But they say Lowey's sees July 4th as a deadline based on political
reality.
While Clinton may not have trouble raising the expected $15 million to run
a Senate race in New York and put together an effective statewide
organization, Lowey recognizes those tasks will not be so easy for a
little-known congresswoman.
"It (July 4th) is the outer limits of discretion. It's the outer limits
of being able to properly plan for herself and the party, said Paul Adler,
Democratic chairman of Rockland County, N.Y.
He is among a growing number of party insiders and others who see evidence
that Clinton has already decided to run and is in preparation.
can't blame her (Lowey) Adler said. There are political realities
at play. She has a safe (House) seat. And she's an effective voice in the
Congress.
Westchester County Democratic Chairman David Alpert said Lowey also has
told him that July 4th is ``the line in the sand'' for her decision.
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Though denying having set that deadline, Lowey said, ''It's a major effort to
run for the Senate. Though confident of her chances, Lowey said she needs to
soon begin that effort in ernest.
Alpert, believing Lowey would be the stronger candidate, said he has tried
without success to talk her into running for the Senate, regardless of what
Clinton does.
A spokesman for state Democratic Party chairwoman Judith Hope would not
comment on Ickes statements about how soon Clinton may declare.
'We're confident, regardless of whether the first lady or Nita Lowey will
be our candidate, said Matthew Hiltzik of the party's prospects, rejecting
some party murmuring that Demcorats could be left in the lurch without a
prepared candidate if the first lady ultimately announces she's not running.
On the Republican side, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has said he's
considering running for the Senate next year, and has formed
a campaign exploratory committee.
If Clinton did the same, she could raise money and pay for travel costs to
New York. Her trips to the state so far this year have been paid mostly by the
government, prompting criticism that she is using taxpayer dollars for
political purposes.
Since last week, there had been reports that Clinton would announce at
least the establishment of an exploratory committee within weeks of returning
from a Florida vacation with her husband and daughter late this month.
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Report: Hillary poised for Senate run
WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is set to form
an exploratory committee to look into a run for a U.S. Senate seat from New
York.
The Washington Post is reporting in its Thursday editions that friends and
close associates of the first lady say it is virtually certain that she will
run for the Senate. Clinton is reportedly keeping her options open and will
slowly roll out the campaign.
A knowledgeable Democrat told the Post, ``The finger is one the go button.
She just hasn't decided to push it yet.
Clinton has warned associates she is not yet ready to make a final
decision, but the newspaper's sources say she is past the question of whether
she should run. Even the roll out of the campaign could be a lengthy process
as the exploratory committee would likely be announced in July.
There are actually no announced candidates to run for the seat being
vacated by the retiring Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who is a Democrat like
Clinton. It is expected that New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will seek
the Republican nomination. Polls on a race between Clinton and Giuliani show
the first lady winning the election in what would be a highly watched and
tough campaign.
The existence of an exploratory committee, which would allow her to raise
funds, would help quiet some criticism about Clinton's recent trips to New
York eight since the first of the year that have mostly been paid for by
taxpayers. Clinton, at the insistence of the Secret Service, travels on Air
Force jets. Funds raised through the exploratory committee could be used to
defray those costs.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., told the Post: ''It's obvious to anyone who
sits down with Hillary Clinton that she is enthusiastic about being
a senator. But, he added, ``you have to be a full-time candidate. He also
said that the first lady needs to become 'comfortable with the risk she may
lose.
Copyright 1999 by United Press International.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House press secretary Michael McCurry
predicted Thursday that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will run for the
U.S. Senate in New York and win.
Asked if Clinton would run, McCurry said: ``Yes, she will and yes, she
will win. Answering questions after a speech to a financial industry trade
group, he added that he did not have any inside information about the first
lady's plans.
Clinton has been weighing a possible run for the Senate seat being
vacated by retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and advisers believe that
if she decides not to run she will say so in early June. If she runs, she will
likely face Republican New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
``It would be a fabulous thing to have Hillary Clinton in the Senate,
McCurry said. ``I think she would be an eminently worthy successor (to
Moynihan)
Asked if the Democrats had a shot at recapturing control of Congress,
McCurry said they were within ``striking distance in the House'' but it is
``harder to see'' such a comeback in the Senate.
McCurry stepped down as President Bill Clinton's press secretary last
year.
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Giuliani spokesman Matthew Higgins said the mayor "didn't see the interview,
so we don't have any comment."
The Senate spotlight will shift back to Clinton today when she arrives in
Manhattan.
She will raise at least $ 500,000 for Rep. Nita Lowey (D-Westchester), who
has said she will seek the Senate nod if Clinton doesn't. Clinton will raise
hundreds of thousands more for whomever Democrats nominate for the Senate race.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said yesterday on NBC that Clinton is "edging
closer and closer to running."
But he cautioned that the First Lady would "have to put the running for the
Senate first, ahead of being First Lady."
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HEADLINE: Rank shouldn't have political privileges
BYLINE: Richard Cohen
BODY:
Droit du seigneur is the term for the alleged feudal right of the lord to
take the virginity of his vassal's bride on the wedding night. It is the basis
for many a play and one great opera, Wolfgang Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
Droit du seignora is the term invented by me for the right of a first lady
to get her party's Senate nomination in any state she so chooses. Hillary Rodham
Clinton has picked New York.
In fact, she seems raring to go. Mrs. Clinton has made a list of likely
campaign aides. It starts with former presidential assistant Harold Ickes at the
top and includes Robert Shrum, a political consultant and whiz speech writer;
Mandy Gruenwald, who probably would handle the advertising; and other veterans
of Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns. Those people, she is saying, are the
staffers she would choose if she were going to run. But that "if" has turned
into a virtual "when" an exploratory committee within a month, a likely
candidacy soon after.
This is an amazing turn of events. On the basis of her domestic dilemma, New
York's Democratic Party simply has turned itself over to Mrs. Clinton. This is
the party of AI Smith, Franklin Roosevelt, Mario Cuomo, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
and the late, great Mario Procaccino, who lost the 1969 mayoral race to John
Lindsay but left us with the term "limousine liberals."
The Empire State is loaded with political talents, many of them Democratic
in ideology, and yet they all have moved aside to allow the first lady to get
what, for some reason, everyone thinks is hers if she wants it.
The most prominent person to step aside is Nita Lowey, a Democratic
congresswoman from Westchester County for the past decade. She is a declared
candidate for the Senate but only if Mrs. Clinton doesn't run. If Mrs. Clinton
does, then Mrs. Lowey is out, having recognized the eminent right of the first
lady to represent a state in which she never has lived. With a bit more logic,
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Mrs. Clinton could have run from Illinois, her home state, or from Arkansas,
where she once was first lady.
There is something wacky about this state of affairs. By what right does
Mrs. Clinton get the New York nomination by acclamation? What would be wrong
with a primary fight in which Mrs. Clinton would have to explain how she is
going to be first lady and Senate candidate all at one time? What would be wrong
in having an opponent ask her if she isn't shortchanging the voters the ones to
whom Mr. Clinton once promised an activist first lady? Those are legitimate
issues the voters might want to decide in a primary. It appears, though, they
won't have the chance.
One reason, paradoxically, is that Mrs. Clinton is the darling of feminists.
But it is Mrs. Lowey who has built a career all on her own. No one ever heard of
her husband, Stephen, a lawyer, although I am sure he is a fine fellow. What's
more, Mrs. Lowey has been a champion of women's issues everything from the
funding of breast cancer research to a no-equivocation defense of abortion
rights. An opponent once called her "Bella Abzug without a hat."
Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, is getting her current boost in the polls
from playing the most conventional of female roles. No longer is she a
policy-maker, health care czarina or some such thing. Instead, she has become
the person she once dismissed: the stand-by-your-man wife of country music lore.
This is a tune she now hums herself, although a Senate race would suggest that
her standing days may be coming to an end soon.
Don't get me wrong. I am a fan of Mrs. Clinton's. I think she would make a
dandy senator from any state. I say that as a citizen. As a journalist, I would
far prefer a Clinton-Giuliani race to any other. But my selfish concerns are
immaterial. The voters deserve a nomination fight, if only to see whether Mrs.
Clinton on her own can be a credible candidate.
Just as Bill Clinton's sexual shenanigans taught America about America (Who
thought he would survive? Who thought he would thrive?), so has Hillary
Clinton's apparent Senate candidacy given us a lesson. She prospers in the polls
(an 8-point lead over Rudolph Giuliani, the likely GOP candidate) not only
because of her manifest abilities (she is a great speaker, among other things)
but also because as a wounded woman loyal, suffering and all the rest she can
take what she wants. It is a form of droit du seigneur. As for Mrs. Lowey,
another feudal term applies: lady in waiting.
Richard Cohen writes for the Washington Post.
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HEADLINE: LOOKS LIKE HILLARY'S IN THE RUNNING
SUBHEAD: First lady faces tough challenges in New York Senate race
BODY:
Unlike weathermen, racetrack touts and stock brokers, a columnist should
openly admit error. Or a screeching U-turn in opinion.
So a minor confession: I've probably been wrong about Hillary Clinton. The
hunch expressed here was that Hillary would never run for the open 2000 Senate
seat in New York. Nope, her encouragement of the political buzz was an
ego-driven PR stunt. She'd enjoy the tease and dance away.
Having been chilled by Clinton's frostiness toward reporters - or kept 80
feet away - I couldn't imagine her exposing herself to the Godzilla hammerlocks
of the New York press.
For someone thin-skinned about privacy, why would Hillary be a target for a
rain of dead cats - Whitewater, the 'lost'law records, Webb Hubbell's tangle,
Vince Foster's suicide, the health-reform fiasco? And Monica Lewinsky.
Why leap into a mud pit with bruising New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, already
snarling that she's a carpetbagging left-winger?
Maybe the conventional thinking, as usual, is muddled. Shift my vote on
Hillary from 'no way' to 'leaning yes.' Evidence is piling up: The lady's a pol
edging toward the starting gate. It's beyond ritual first lady photo ops -
riding a camel with Chelsea in Morocco, comforting Kosovo refugees in Macedonia.
She's phoning New York county chairmen. Or schmoozing with spear carriers Harold
Ickes and Rep. Charlie Rangel. Or stumping to cheers from Manhattan to Niagara.
'She talks like a candidate,' one Democratic chairman said. 'If it looks like
a duck and walks like a duck, it's a duck.' Granted, Hillary-for-Senate will be
trickier than tottering a tightrope over a pool of piranhas. Legal headaches
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will nag. After she opens the usual exploratory committee, Hillary can raise
money. Ten million dollars? No sweat. But carping's predictable: Taxpayers
providing for a first lady's political trips will revive Bill's '96
campaign-money ghosts.
And don't discount New York's fickleness toward celebs.
Polls once rosy for Hillary now tilt toward Giuliani. His raging at
carpetbagger Hillary - although Sens. Robert Kennedy and James Buckley were
outsiders - could damage. 'She's not from anywhere,' sniffs pollster Lee
Miringoff. 'She's from TV.'
But I suspect Hillary's No. 1 cheerleader is her marriage partner. Bill said
recently that he asks wannabe candidates, 'Why do you want the job? If they
can't answer in a sentence or a minute, they're in trouble.'
Hillary, I suspect, passed. But why would Clinton be enthused about his
wife's political scrimmage? It's her turn? Monica guilt? It fits their
post-presidential plan to live in NYC? Burnish the soiled legacy with Hillary in
the Senate, AI Gore in the White House? His last chance to campaign? Who knows.
Get ready, Rudy. You're in for a rough ride, New York.
* SANDY GRADY is the Washington columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News.
Address: Knight-Ridder Washington bureau, 700 National Press Building,
Washington, D.C. 20045.
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BYLINE: By TIMOTHY J. BURGER Daily News Washington Bureau
BODY:
WASHINGTON Senate hopeful Rep. Rick Lazio showed off his jab yesterday,
taking a few pokes at First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's ambition to run for
Senate from New York.
Lazio, a Republican from Long Island, cracked that Clinton "needs an
exploratory committee to find Elmira."
"This is somebody who has never lived a day in her life in New York outside
The Plaza hotel and roots for the Chicago Cubs," he said mockingly of the
First Lady, who is originally from Chicago.
Clinton will be back in Manhattan today for a pair of Democratic
fund-raisers. During a Florida vacation starting tomorrow, she is expected to
discuss the Senate race with her family.
"I say, bring her on," Lazio said yesterday on ABC-TV's "This Week."
Before he gets to take on Clinton, however, Lazio will likely have to face
Mayor Giuliani in a Republican primary, and yesterday he took a few shots at the
mayor, too.
"I think he's a reluctant Republican. I think he's the wrong candidate,"
Lazio said of Giuliani.
"We need somebody who has not endorsed Mario Cuomo," Lazio added in a
reminder that Giuliani had crossed party lines in 1994 to endorse Democrat Cuomo
over George Pataki, the candidate of Giuliani's own party. Pataki won.
And in a dig at Giuliani's famous temper, Lazio repeatedly emphasized that
the Senate required somebody with the "right temperament," "somebody willing to
compromise and bring people together."
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CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco said there
was no significance to her use of the word
"I" rather than "we." He said Clinton used
"we," clearly including the President in her
plans, in other parts of the interview.
The First Lady yesterday made her ninth
trip to New York this year, headlining a
political fund-raiser that generated $1
million for Rep. Nita Lowey
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Clinton is not.
Yorker Hillary
Rodham Clinton
The First Lady made no reference to her impending decision.
She lauded Lowey as a "tenacious advocate for New York
who brings people together."
"With Nita it's not about backroom deals and how many
special interests you can satisfy, it's really about whether or
not she can make a contribution to the well-being of her
constituents, her state and her country," she said.
Lowey - - placed in the awkward role of Clinton's political
understudy - broached the Hillary-for-Senate issue without
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any hint of bitterness that her plans are on hold:
"Let the Republicans argue. Let the mayor and the governor
have their petty feuds. While the Republicans in this state turn
their backs on one another, I am proud to march forward
shoulder to shoulder with my friend Hillary Rodham
Clinton," Lowey said.
"We are united and we are confident that on Nov. 7, 2000,
New York will elect its first woman to the U.S. Senate," she
said.
Clinton then headlined a Democratic Senate Campaign
Committee fund-raiser before accepting an award at Lincoln
Center honoring her advocacy work for the arts, an official
duty that allowed her to partially bill taxpayers for the trip.
She began her visit at Le Cirque 2000, to help former New
York State First Lady Matilda Cuomo launch her new book,
"The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans
Recall Their Mentors." Cuomo introduced Clinton as "our
First Lady and our future whatever she wants to be in New
York or in the United States."
Her "60 Minutes II" interview marked the first time the First
Lady has confirmed what friends have said for months. Sen.
Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), head of the Democratic senatorial
campaign committee and an ardent Run-Hillary-Run
advocate, said in January that the Clintons planned to set up
shop in Manhattan once their White House years end.
Torricelli said yesterday, "At this point, I'd be very surprised
if she doesn't run. Preparations for a campaign are moving
remarkably quickly."
Aides said the First Lady's political aspirations will be a
prime topic of conversation during the Clintons' six-day
vacation beginning today in Yulee, Fla.
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House, whether or not she runs
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mitment during a 60 Minutes II in-
terview after being asked which
New York baseball team she
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plan to live in New York no mat-
ter what 1 end up doing, is I'll root
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view, taped Thursday and to air
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HEADLINE: SHE'LL TAKE MANHATTAN HIL SAYS SHE'LL CALL BIG APPLE HOME
BYLINE: By JOEL SIEGEL and THOMAS M. DeFRANK
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is edging ever closer to running for Senate from
New York, is moving to the Big Apple "no matter what I end up doing" after she
and her husband leave the White House.
The First Lady confirmed she's in a New York state of mind in an interview
with CBS' Dan Rather that airs tomorrow on "60 Minutes II." Asked whether she'd
cheer for the Yankees or Mets, Clinton told Rather: "The politic answer since I
do plan to live in New York no matter what I end up doing is I'll root for
both."
CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco said there was no significance to her use of "I"
rather than "we." He said Clinton used "we," clearly including the President in
her plans, throughout the interview.
The First Lady yesterday made her ninth trip to New York this year,
headlining a political fund-raiser that generated $ 1 million for Rep. Nita
Lowey (D-Westchester), who is likely to be the Democrats' Senate nominee in 2000
if Clinton is not.
The First Lady made no reference to her impending decision. She lauded Lowey
as a "tenacious advocate for New York who brings people together."
"With Nita it's not about backroom deals and how many special interests you
can satisfy, it's really about whether or not she can make a contribution to the
well-being of her constituents, her state and her country," she said.
Lowey placed in the awkward role of Clinton's political understudy broached
the issue without any hint of bitterness that her plans are on hold: "Let the
Republicans argue. Let the mayor and the governor have their petty feuds. While
the Republicans in this state turn their backs on one another, I am proud to
march forward shoulder to shoulder with my friend Hillary Rodham Clinton."
"We are united and we are confident that on Nov. 7, 2000, New York will elect
its first woman to the U.S. Senate," she said.
Clinton then headlined a Democratic Senate Campaign Committee fund-raiser
before accepting an award at Lincoln Center honoring her advocacy work for the
arts.
She began her visit at Le Cirque 2000, to help former New York State First
Lady Matilda Cuomo launch her new book, "The Person Who Changed My Life:
Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors." Cuomo introduced Clinton as "our
First Lady and our future whatever she wants to be in New York or in the United
States."
Clinton's interview marked the first time she has confirmed what Sen. Robert
Torricelli (D-N.J.), head of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee, said
in January that the Clintons planned to set up shop in Manhattan.
"At this point, I'd be very surprised if she doesn't run," Torricelli said
yesterday. "Preparations for a campaign are moving remarkably quickly."
Aides said the First Lady's political aspirations will be a prime topic of
conversation during the Clintons' six-day vacation beginning today in Yulee,
Fla.
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HEADLINE: SENATE RUN LOOKING BETTER TO RFK JR.
BYLINE: BY MITCHELL FINK WITH EMILY GEST
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to be having a change of heart about running
for the U.S. Senate from New York.
The environmental lawyer is reconsidering his political future three months
after he asked that his name be withdrawn as a possible candidate for the Senate
seat being vacated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Kennedy has begun telling
political confidants that he will mount a Senate campaign if and it's a big if
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton decides not to run, sources say.
The 45-year-old son of Robert and Ethel Kennedy was initially hesitant to get
into the race, fearing that it would take a toll on his family. He's the father
of five young children.
But now he has done a 180, sources say, and will wait to make his move
pending a decision by Mrs. Clinton.
Some insiders believe that Kennedy would be a stronger candidate than the
other alternative to
Hillary, Westchester Rep. Nita Lowey.
The fear, according to one Democratic bigwig, is that Lowey "might not play
upstate" because she's largely unknown outside New York City.
"Kennedy obviously has the name recognition," says the source.
Lowey's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, was not aware of Kennedy's plans, but says
he expects "the entire [Democratic ] Party" to support the congresswoman.
"Nita has been traveling around the state for the last six months," he said.
"She is raising money. She is well positioned to run, and win, if Hillary
Clinton does not run."
Kennedy did not return calls seeking comment.
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sites contaminated by waste.
The conference is an annual event held by the vice president, who is
seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. This year's
gathering allows Gore to test the political temperature in Texas, a
Republican stronghold where Bush is the popular governor.
The Clintons are going to Florida as guests of the Howard Gilman
Foundation, which lets groups and individuals use its facilities for
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White Oak, located just across the St. Mary's River from the
Georgia border, sits on a 7,500-acre conservation area. In addition
to the giraffes, cheetahs and rhinos, it is home to Big Guy, an
endangered Florida panther injured in an auto accident.
Those animals stand a better chance of seeing the Clintons than any
of the reporters tagging along with them. Lockhart said Monday
that the president and first lady -- traveling without daughter
Chelsea, who is still in school at Stanford University -- have no
plans to venture off White Oak's grounds.
The Clintons plan to linger in Yulee until late Sunday, so they can
participate in a conference being held at White Oak by the
Democratic Leadership Council and its think tank, the Progressive
Policy Institute.
Lockhart would not say whether that conference -- or for that
matter, the entire vacation -- would allow the Clintons to discuss the
first lady's possible Senate bid.
"You'll have to ask the first couple that," Lockhart said Monday,
prompting one frustrated reporter to reply, "When will we have that
opportunity?"
Mrs. Clinton's spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, said the first lady plans
to rest and relax and that's all. As for whether she would cull issues
from the Democratic conference for her potential Senate campaign,
Berry said, "She did say that she planned to spend some time
thinking about this. I think she's thinking about that stuff all the
time."
The Clintons were to stay at Roseland, a two-story, cedar-paneled,
five-bedroom house near the St. Mary's River. There, they'd have a
view of a white rhino who nests nearby with her 4-month-old calf.
And Clinton can either relax beside the pool with a good book or
play a few rounds on the nine-hole golf course.
White Oak was created by the late Howard Gilman, chairman and
chief executive officer of Gilman Paper Co. in nearby St. Mary's,
Ga., the largest privately held paper and building products company
in the country. Gilman's father, Charles Gilman, established the
plantation in 1938 as a family residence.
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HEADLINE: Hillary Clinton commits to living in New York
BYLINE: By BETH J. HARPAZ, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
Hillary Rodham Clinton made three speeches during an evening in Manhattan
without saying whether she will run for U.S. Senate - but she has committed
herself to living in New York.
The first lady said she will definitely make her home in New York after
leaving the White House, whether or not she runs for the Senate here. She made
the disclosure during a "60 Minutes II" interview after being asked which New
York baseball team she would root for.
"The politic answer, since I do plan to live in New York no matter what I end
up doing, is I'll root for both," she said in the interview, which was taped May
20 and will air Wednesday night.
CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco said there was no significance to her use of the
word "I" rather than "we" since she used "we," clearly including the president
in her plans, in other parts of the interview.
Marsha Berry, the first lady's spokeswoman, said Mrs. Clinton "and the
president have discussed that they would like to live in New York, long before
she was approached about this race." Berry said those discussions had been going
on "for over a year now."
Mrs. Clinton has not yet announced whether she will seek the Senate seat
being vacated by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She appeared in New York City
on Monday at a fund-raiser for Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., who will run for the
Senate if the first lady does not. Mrs. Clinton made no reference to her
impending decision.
Mrs. Lowey highlighted her solidarity with Mrs. Clinton, betraying no
bitterness that her own political future might be hurt as she awaits the first
lady's decision.
"Let the governor and the mayor have their petty feuds," Mrs. Lowey said.
"While the Republicans in this state turn their backs on one another, I am proud
to march forward shoulder-to-shoulder with my friend Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Mrs. Lowey's comments about the Republicans refer to New York Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, who has formed an exploratory campaign committee for the Senate seat,
and Gov. George Pataki. On Monday, Pataki said he had no intention of running
for the Senate.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton will definitely make her home in New York
after leaving the White House, whether or not she runs for U.S. Senate
here, the first lady told "60 Minutes II" in a quote released yesterday.
The first lady made the commitment after being asked for which New
York baseball team she would root.
"The politic answer, since I do plan to live in New York no matter
what I end up doing, is I'll root for both, she said in the interview,
which was taped Thursday and will air tomorrow on CBS at 8 p.m.
Marsha Berry, the first lady's spokeswoman, said Clinton "and the
president have discussed that they would like to live in New York, long
before she was approached about this race."
Clinton and Rep. Nita Lowey presented a united front at a
fund-raiser last night intended to send Lowey to the U.S. Senate - or
to keep her in the House.
Clinton called Lowey, who plans to run for the Senate only if the
first lady does not, "a public servant in the finest meaning of that
phrase."
Lowey, for her part, said she was "proud to march forward shoulder
to shoulder with my friend Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Clinton has not yet decided whether she will run for the seat being
vacated by U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and money raised at the
dinner can be used for Lowey's congressional re-election campaign if
the first lady goes for the Senate seat.
Lowey highlighted her solidarity with Clinton, betraying no hint
of bitterness that her own political future might be hurt as she awaits
the first lady's decision.
"Let the Republicans argue," she said. "Let the governor and the
mayor have their petty feuds. While the Republicans in this state turn
their backs on one another, I am proud to march forward shoulder to
shoulder with my friend Hillary Rodham Clinton. We are united - and we
are confident that on Nov. 7, 2000, New York will elect its first woman
to the United States Senate."
Lowey's comments about the Republicans refer to infighting between
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has formed an exploratory
campaign committee for the Senate seat, and Gov. George Pataki. Another
Republican, U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio of Long Island, on Sunday said he was
"inching closer" to declaring himself a Senate candidate.
Mrs. Clinton made no reference to her impending decision.
Clinton's visit to Manhattan also included a party at Le Cirque
2000 to launch a new book by Matilda Cuomo, "The Person Who Changed My
Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors." Clinton wrote the
introduction to the book by the wife of former Gov. Mario Cuomo. Profits
from the book will go to Cuomo's organization, Mentoring USA, which
matches adult volunteers with at-risk children.
After the Lowey fund-raiser, Clinton was scheduled to appear at
Lincoln Center to receive an award from Americans for the Arts, honoring
her advocacy work for the arts.
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HEADLINE: First lady to mull over Senate run on vacation
BYLINE: By BETH J. HARPAZ, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
Hillary Rodham Clinton made three speeches during an evening in Manhattan,
but she said nary a word about the subject foremost on everyone's mind: whether
she will run for U.S. Senate.
The first lady, however, will give a lot of thought to the subject over the
holiday weekend while she vacations in Florida with President Clinton, her
spokeswoman said.
"She's going to take the time in the next few days while she's on vacation to
continue to think about it," spokeswoman Marsha Berry said. "I don't expect
there'll be any announcement of change after she comes back. She's still working
through the process of a lot of weighing both for herself and the people of New
York."
The Clintons were to begin a six-day vacation today in Yulee, Fla., on a
7,500-acre plantation that is a conservation center for exotic animals.
The trip follows a busy evening Monday for Mrs. Clinton. She attended a party
at Le Cirque 2000 launching a new book by Matilda Cuomo, received an arts award
at Lincoln Center and spoke at a $ 1 million fund-raiser for U.S. Rep. Nita
Lowey.
The only references to her potential campaign came from others. Mrs. Cuomo
introduced her as "our first lady and our future whatever-she-wants-to-be."
Mrs. Lowey, who plans to run for the Senate seat if Mrs. Clinton doesn't,
said: "I don't know yet who will lead our march, but I do know the road. I am
proud to walk it with Hillary."
Mrs. Clinton called Mrs. Lowey a leader on issues like gun control, abortion
rights and funding for health care and the arts.
"In every important issue, she's been on the front lines," Mrs. Clinton said.
"She is someone who brings people together.
She's truly a public servant in
the finest meaning of that phrase."
The money raised for Mrs. Lowey can be used either for her congressional
re-election campaign or for a Senate race.
At Lincoln Center, Mrs. Clinton received an award from Americans for the Arts
for her advocacy of the arts. The award was presented by Caroline Kennedy
Schlossberg.
Mrs. Clinton returns to New York twice in the next two weeks, for a June 2
fund-raiser for U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Manhattan and for a June 9
fund-raiser for U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey in Binghamton.
Also on Monday, "60 Minutes II" released a quotation from Mrs. Clinton saying
she would definitely make her home in New York after leaving the White House,
whether or not she runs for the Senate.
The first lady made the commitment after being asked which New York baseball
team she would root for.
"The politic answer, since I do plan to live in New York no matter what I end
up doing, is I'll root for both," she said in the interview, which was taped May
20 and will air Wednesday on CBS at 8 p.m. EDT.
President Clinton had discussed the possibility of living in New York in a
CBS interview in March.
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H
illary Rodham Clinton, who is edging ever closer to
running for Senate from New York, is moving to the
Big Apple "no matter what I end up doing" after she
and her husband leave the White House.
The First Lady confirmed she's in a New York state of mind
in an interview with CBS' Dan Rather, airing tomorrow.
Asked whether she'd cheer for the Yankees or Mets if she
runs for the Senate, Clinton told Rather: "The political answer
- since I do plan to live in New York no matter what I end
up doing - is I'll root for both."
CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco said there
was no significance to her use of the word
"I" rather than "we." He said Clinton used
"we," clearly including the President in her
plans, in other parts of the interview.
The First Lady yesterday made her ninth
trip to New York this year, headlining a
political fund-raiser that generated $1
million for Rep. Nita Lowey
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(D-Westchester), who is likely to be the
First Lady and
Democrats' Senate nominee in 2000 if
soon-to-be New
Clinton is not.
Yorker Hillary
Rodham Clinton
The First Lady made no reference to her impending decision.
She lauded Lowey as a "tenacious advocate for New York
who brings people together."
"With Nita it's not about backroom deals and how many
special interests you can satisfy, it's really about whether or
not she can make a contribution to the well-being of her
constituents, her state and her country," she said.
Lowey - placed in the awkward role of Clinton's political
understudy - — broached the Hillary-for-Senate issue without
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any hint of bitterness that her plans are on hold:
"Let the Republicans argue. Let the mayor and the governor
have their petty feuds. While the Republicans in this state turn
their backs on one another, I am proud to march forward
shoulder to shoulder with my friend Hillary Rodham
Clinton," Lowey said.
"We are united and we are confident that on Nov. 7, 2000,
New York will elect its first woman to the U.S. Senate," she
said.
Clinton then headlined a Democratic Senate Campaign
Committee fund-raiser before accepting an award at Lincoln
Center honoring her advocacy work for the arts, an official
duty that allowed her to partially bill taxpayers for the trip.
She began her visit at Le Cirque 2000, to help former New
York State First Lady Matilda Cuomo launch her new book,
"The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans
Recall Their Mentors." Cuomo introduced Clinton as "our
First Lady and our future whatever she wants to be in New
York or in the United States."
Her "60 Minutes II" interview marked the first time the First
Lady has confirmed what friends have said for months. Sen.
Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), head of the Democratic senatorial
campaign committee and an ardent Run-Hillary-Run
advocate, said in January that the Clintons planned to set up
shop in Manhattan once their White House years end.
Torricelli said yesterday, "At this point, I'd be very surprised
if she doesn't run. Preparations for a campaign are moving
remarkably quickly."
Aides said the First Lady's political aspirations will be a
prime topic of conversation during the Clintons' six-day
vacation beginning today in Yulee, Fla.
With Kenneth R. Bazinet
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May 25, 1999, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section B; Page 3; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk
LENGTH: 828 words
HEADLINE: First Lady Raises Money for Someone Else
BYLINE: By ADAM NAGOURNEY
BODY:
Amid new indications that she is preparing to move to New York to run for the
United States Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Manhattan last night as
the featured speaker at a political fund-raiser for Representative Nita D. Lowey
-- the Westchester Democrat who is hoping that Mrs. Clinton does not run, so
that she can.
Even for a year that is turning out to be one of the more politically
convoluted in recent New York history, Mrs. Clinton's appearance at Mrs. Lowey's
$1,000-a-head fund-raiser was an odd event. The First Lady helped the
61-year-old Westchester Democrat raise $1 million for a potential race for the
Senate, a race that Mrs. Lowey said she would forgo if Mrs. Clinton decided to
seek the seat herself. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is retiring at the end of
2000.
Even Mrs. Lowey's aides acknowledge that it is increasingly likely that Mrs.
clinton will decide to run. The First Lady has instructed representatives to
begin looking for a home for her and President Clinton in Westchester, according
to a report that will appear in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday. And Mrs.
Clinton told the CBS anchorman Dan Rather, in an interview scheduled to be
broadcast on "60 Minutes II" tomorrow night, that she planned "to live in New
York no matter what I end up doing."
Mrs. Clinton, in the course of her remarks to a hotel ballroom bustling with
Democrats and television crews, did not allude to the topic that had most of the
tables buzzing. Instead, she offered an effusive testimonial to Mrs. Lowey's
record in Congress and never once mentioned Mrs. Lowey's Senate ambitions.
By contrast, Mrs. Lowey ⑉⑉ who has said she would run for a sixth term in the
House if Mrs. Clinton runs for the Senate -- made humorous reference to their
situation, and then noted the unusual fact that it is state Republicans, rather
than Democrats, who are feuding these days.
"While the Republicans in this state turn their backs on one another, I am
proud to march forward shoulder to shoulder with my friend, Hillary Rodham
Clinton," Mrs. Lowey said. "We are united -- and we are confident that on Nov.
7, 2000, New York will elect its first woman to the United States Senate."
It was Mrs. Clinton's ninth visit to the state this year, and inevitably
reinforced a belief among Democrats here and in Washington that in the end she
will run for the seat that Mrs. Lowey would like.
Mrs. Clinton has told friends that she is likely to form an exploratory
committee -- it would be the first step toward running -- but has yet to make a
final decision about actually running.
President Clinton has said before that he and Mrs. Clinton, who are expected
to set up more than one residence after his term expires, would like to live in
New York. Mrs. Clinton's friends told The Times Magazine that her
representatives were looking at potential locations in Westchester, raising the
prospect that Mrs. Clinton could have Mrs. Lowey as her Congresswoman.
In choosing places to live after the White House, the Clintons are known to
be considering both security and proximity to golf courses, which is presumably
what nudged Mrs. Clinton to look north of New York City.
Mrs. Clinton's itinerary yesterday allowed her to attend to both New York and
national political concerns. She showed up at a book party for Matilda Raffa
Cuomo, the wife of Mario M. Cuomo, at Le Cirque 2000. She attended an awards
dinner sponsored by Americans for the Arts at Lincoln Center, and she also
appeared at a closed-door fund-raiser for the Democratic Senate Campaign
Committee.
At the fund-raiser for Mrs. Lowey, she praised the representative's record on
abortion rights and gun control, among other issues. "With Nita it is not about
back-room deals or how many special interests you can satisfy," Mrs. Clinton
said. "It's really about whether or not she can make a contribution to the
well-being of her constituents and her state and her country."
Mrs. Clinton's press secretary, Marsha Berry, said that because about half of
what Mrs. Clinton did yesterday was considered official business, half the cost
of the trip was billed to the White House and the rest would be billed to the
political committees that benefited from her appearances.
One of the reasons that Mrs. Clinton is moving to forming an exploratory
committee is that she has come under increasing criticism for making trips to
New York at White House expense; an exploratory committee would allow her to
raise money to finance the trips.
If Mrs. Lowey was at all annoyed about how Mrs. Clinton's political ambitions
were overcoming her own, she and her aides did not show it last night.
The Representative matched Mrs. Clinton, compliment for compliment. Her press
secretary, Howard Wolfson, smiled gamely when he learned that the First Lady
might be house-shopping in his boss's district.
"We'd be absolutely delighted to welcome the First Lady to Westchester," Mr.
Wolfson said.
GRAPHIC: Photo: Among her other Manhattan stops yesterday, Hillary Rodham
Clinton attended a book party at Le Cirque 2000 for Matilda Raffa Cuomo, who
edited "The Person Who Changed My Life," 75 essays on mentoring. (Oier
Mohammed/The New York Times)
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Hillary Clinton Said Undecided On Senate Bid
REUTERS 12.05 p.m. ET (1605 GMT) May 26, 1999
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. - Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet made up her
mind about whether she will run for a New York Senate seat, her spokeswoman
said Wednesday, responding to a report that the first lady has decided to run.
"She has not decided," spokeswoman Marsha Berry said in response to
comments from the chairman of the Democratic Party in Staten Island, New
York, that she told him she was going to run.
The party official, Robert Gigante, told the CBS News' "This Morning" program
that Mrs. Clinton confided her plans to him during a fundraiser in New York
Monday for Rep. Nita Lowey, the Democrat who would run for the Senate seat
if Mrs. Clinton does not.
"I just said to her, 'Do you have any good news for the people of Staten Island?'
She said 'yes.' And I said, 'Does that mean you're going to run?' And she said,
'yes.' And I said, well, we're ready to work. And she said, 'I'm going to need a
lot of help," Gigante said.
Berry said in response: "People tend to hear what they want to hear."
But the first lady's friends and advisers say she is strongly leaning toward running
for the seat being vacated by the retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan.
She and President Clinton are spending the rest of the week in northeastern
Florida for some vacation and to give Mrs. Clinton some time to ponder her race.
Advisers says she is likely to form an exploratory committee in late June or in
early July to enable her to raise money for travel costs associated with her
frequent trips to New York.
Adviser Denies Hillary Clinton Running For Senate
REUTERS 5.24 p.m. ET (2125 GMT) May 26, 1999
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. - A top political adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton
denied Wednesday that she told a New York state Democratic leader that she
had made up her mind to run for a Senate seat.
The adviser, former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, said in a
telephone interview from Washington that he had talked to Mrs. Clinton Tuesday
about the comments from Robert Gigante, chairman of the Staten Island
Democratic Party.
"First of all, she has no recollection of saying what Gigante says he said. I think
there is a good-faith misunderstanding, and most importantly, she hasn't decided
whether she's going to run or not. I've known Hillary Rodham Clinton for 25
years, and she doesn't blurt things out," Ickes said.
Gigante told the CBS News' "This Morning" program that Mrs. Clinton confided
her plans to him during a fund-raiser in New York Monday for Rep. Nita Lowey,
the Democrat who would run or the Senate seat if Mrs. Clinton did not.
"I just said to her, 'Do you have any good news for the people of Staten Island?'
She said 'yes.' And I said, 'Does that mean you're going to run?' And she said,
'yes.' And I said, well, we're ready to work. And she said, 'I'm going to need a
lot of help," Gigante said.
The first lady's spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, said in response: "People tend to
hear what they want to hear."
Gigante defended his version of the story, saying that both he and his wife heard
the first lady confirm she would run.
"Obviously this wasn't meant to be an announcement. I have no doubt she's
running. Whether it was a slip, I don't know. But you can't put the toothpaste
back into the tube," Gigante told Reuters in a telephone interview from his Staten
Island office.
He said the reaction he has seen from Staten Island voters has been positive.
"People here are just delighted," he said.
The first lady's friends and advisers say she is strongly leaning toward running for
the seat being vacated by the retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
She and President Clinton are spending the rest of the week in northeastern
Florida for some vacation and to give Mrs. Clinton some time to ponder whether
to make her own first political run for office.
Advisers says she is likely to form an exploratory committee in late June or in
early July to raise money to pay for her frequent trips to New York.
"I think it's fair to say these next two weeks are a very critical two weeks. If she
doesn't say 'no' in very early June, it's an implicit 'yes' and you'll see (formation of)
an exploratory committee," one adviser said.
There has been speculation for months on whether the first lady will run for a
Senate seat. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is expected to win the
Republican Party's nomination.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, while not commenting on the first lady's
political plans, said that Tuesday night the president night called Ken Zebrowski,
who lost a hotly contested race for the New York state senate in Rockland
County, N.Y.. Mrs. Clinton had campaigned for Zebrowski.
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N.Y. Dem says Mrs. Clinton said she is running; her camp denies
2.49 p.m. ET (1849 GMT) May 26, 1999
NEW YORK (AP) - A Democratic Party county chairman says he knows the
answer to the big question in New York politics: Will Hillary Rodham Clinton
run?
Robert Gigante, Staten Island party chairman, said Tuesday that Mrs. Clinton has
decided to run for the Senate from New York. Gigante said Mrs. Clinton told
him so at a New York City fund-raiser Monday night.
However, Mrs. Clinton's top adviser denied the first lady told Gigante any such
thing.
Gigante said he and his wife were making small talk with Mrs. Clinton when he
brought up the subject.
"I ended by saying, 'Do you have any good news for Staten Island,' and she said,
"Yes," Gigante reported. "Does that mean that you're running?' And she said,
'Yes."
Asked about the exchange, Mrs. Clinton's adviser Harold Ickes said that
according to Mrs. Clinton, the first lady told Gigante that she is thinking it over
and hasn't decided yet.
The Senate seat is being vacated next year by Democrat Daniel Patrick
Moynihan. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is among the Republicans thinking
of entering the race.
Mrs. Clinton is on vacation with President Clinton in Florida for the rest of the
week. After she returns, advisers expect her to either rule out a Senate race or
announce formation of an exploratory committee.
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Hillary Clinton to promote
Southwest preservation today
By NANCY PLEVIN
The New Mexican
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit this morning to the Palace of the
Governors museum and its 18th century Segesser hide paintings will bring
needed recognition to these national treasures, museum director Tom Chavez said
Thursday.
"The building is the most important building in town, and the paintings are the
most important paintings in town," said Chavez, who hopes the visit also will
help generate $30 million needed to build a museum annex and for preservation
work.
Clinton plans to stop at the museum on the Plaza as part of a four-day "Save
America's Treasures" tour of the Southwest to promote the protection of historic
treasures. Other stops include the Grand Canyon, Acoma Pueblo and Mesa Verde
National Park.
She plans to speak at the Palace of the Governors around 9 a.m. about the need to
preserve both the building, erected in 1610, and the paintings, which were made
between 1702 and 1730 on three bison hides and depict historic events during the
state's Spanish Colonial history.
Chavez hopes eventually to move the palace's exhibits - including the paintings -
into an annex and make the former New Mexico governors' home into a "proper
history museum" with period rooms that "let the walls speak for themselves."
Clinton arrived in Santa Fe on Thursday night for a $500-a-ticket reception at
sculptor Glenna Goodacre's gallery on Upper Canyon Road to raise money for
Cornerstones Community Partnerships, a nonprofit group that works to preserve
New Mexico's adobe mission churches.
Goodacre said Thursday afternoon, while preparing for the reception, that she
expected about 175 people to attend the wine-and-hors d'oeuvres affair, which
will feature classical guitar by Antonio Mendoza. The first lady will say a few
words before standing for photographs with reception-goers.
"We're expecting to have a nice visit for her and to raise a lot (of money)," said
Goodacre, who met Clinton recently in Washington, D.C., during the unveiling of
the newly minted Sacagawea coin that the Santa Fe sculptor created.
"We had a party at her house, and now I'm having one at mine," Goodacre said.
After the reception, Clinton was expected to attend another private event outside
Santa Fe and spend the night at Rancho Encantado in Tesuque.
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Today, after her Palace of the Governors tour, the first lady will head to Acoma
Pueblo, west of Albuquerque, to see the famed San Esteban del Rey Catholic
Church, where Cornerstones is studying the 17th-century adobe sanctuary's
restoration needs.
Clinton will end her New Mexico stay with an evening visit to Albuquerque's
Longfellow Elementary School - the site of sculptor Luis Jimènez's 1984
Fiberglas work, Southwest Pieta. The sculpture, which depicts a man holding a
dying woman in his arms, represents the Mexican legend of the star-crossed
lovers, Popocatèpetl and Ixtaccihuatl.
Earlier this week, Clinton announced $30 million in federal grants to protect
treasures she said represent "the creativity and ingenuity that have always fueled
progress in America."
Among the grants was $700,000 to restore buildings related to the top-secret
Manhattan Project in Los Alamos that unleashed the world's first atomic bomb
more than 50 years ago.
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Adviser Denies Hillary Clinton Running For Senate
REUTERS 5.24 p.m. ET (2125 GMT) May 26, 1999
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. - A top political adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton
denied Wednesday that she told a New York state Democratic leader that she
had made up her mind to run for a Senate seat.
The adviser, former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, said in a
telephone interview from Washington that he had talked to Mrs. Clinton Tuesday
about the comments from Robert Gigante, chairman of the Staten Island
Democratic Party.
"First of all, she has no recollection of saying what Gigante says he said. I think
there is a good-faith misunderstanding, and most importantly, she hasn't decided
whether she's going to run or not. I've known Hillary Rodham Clinton for 25
years, and she doesn't blurt things out," Ickes said.
Gigante told the CBS News' "This Morning" program that Mrs. Clinton confided
her plans to him during a fund-raiser in New York Monday for Rep. Nita Lowey,
the Democrat who would run or the Senate seat if Mrs. Clinton did not.
"I just said to her, 'Do you have any good news for the people of Staten Island?'
She said 'yes.' And I said, 'Does that mean you're going to run?' And she said,
'yes.' And I said, well, we're ready to work. And she said, 'I'm going to need a
lot of help," Gigante said.
The first lady's spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, said in response: "People tend to
hear what they want to hear."
Gigante defended his version of the story, saying that both he and his wife heard
the first lady confirm she would run.
"Obviously this wasn't meant to be an announcement. I have no doubt she's
running. Whether it was a slip, I don't know. But you can't put the toothpaste
back into the tube," Gigante told Reuters in a telephone interview from his Staten
Island office.
He said the reaction he has seen from Staten Island voters has been positive.
"People here are just delighted," he said.
The first lady's friends and advisers say she is strongly leaning toward running for
the seat being vacated by the retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
She and President Clinton are spending the rest of the week in northeastern
Florida for some vacation and to give Mrs. Clinton some time to ponder whether
to make her own first political run for office.
Advisers says she is likely to form an exploratory committee in late June or in
early July to raise money to pay for her frequent trips to New York.
"I think it's fair to say these next two weeks are a very critical two weeks. If she
doesn't say 'no' in very early June, it's an implicit 'yes' and you'll see (formation of)
an exploratory committee," one adviser said.
There has been speculation for months on whether the first lady will run for a
Senate seat. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is expected to win the
Republican Party's nomination.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, while not commenting on the first lady's
political plans, said that Tuesday night the president night called Ken Zebrowski,
who lost a hotly contested race for the New York state senate in Rockland
County, N.Y.. Mrs. Clinton had campaigned for Zebrowski.
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here's an easy explanation as to why
it's so hard to get a reservation at
00
Rao's: Everybody in the restaurant is
having such a good time that nobody wants
to leave.
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That certainly appeared to be the case
Monday night at the legendary 103-year-old East Harlem
eatery that owner Frank Pellegrino calls "an extension of my
mother's house in Oceanside, L.I."
Revlon billionaire Ron Perelman was
there giving a grand little bash for his
daughter Debra on her 26th birthday. His
party of seven toasted the night away,
occupying a table usually reserved for
producer and former French Connection
cop Sonny Grasso, another Rao's regular.
Not that Grasso minded. He was more than
happy to chow down at another table in
order to help accommodate Perelman &
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Frank Pellegrino
Across the room, Mattel honcho Bill Rollnick and his wife,
photographer Nancy Ellison, sat at a table under a
strategically placed photo of themselves with President
Clinton.
Also there was a large group that included Broadway
producer Fran Weissler, best-selling author Barbara Taylor
Bradford and Jack Benny's daughter, Joan.
When they finally got up to leave, their table was quickly
snatched up by restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani, who, on this
night at least, chose to eat at Rao's over one of his own places.
All night long, the affable Pellegrino moved from table to
table, chatting up the famous and near-famous and kissing
just about everybody on both cheeks.
No one missed Pellegrino's eye, not even the guy who
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regularly supplies him with soppresata, the Italian sausage.
He was having dinner at one table near another guy who
supplies Rao's with cheese.
The eclectic gathering was just like Mama used to have,
Pellegrino said.
"She would cook constantly," he said. "The coffee was always
on. People would start coming during the day, some even
with their own food, and they would stay until all hours of the
night."
"I do the same thing in my house," he said. Exactly the point.
Hil Talking Points
Hillary Clinton's ears must have been
burning.
The First Lady was the hot talk Monday as
plenty of A-listers weighed in on her
impending move to New York and her
highly anticipated campaign for the U.S.
Senate.
Listen to what historian Doris Kearns
Hamburg NEWS
Goodwin has to say about Hillary's
Hillary Clinton
political future.
"The big risk for her is that she runs and loses," Goodwin told
me at the Le Cirque 2000 party for Matilda Cuomo's new
book of essays, "The Person Who Changed My Life."
"On the downside, there's the carpetbagger issue," she said.
"It's not like she'd be running from Illinois, where she's from,
or Arkansas, where she has lived. When Bobby Kennedy
came to New York and ran for the Senate in 1966, at least he
could point to the fact that he spent part of his childhood in
Riverdale and Bronxville. And still he was stung by the
carpetbagger issue."
Then there's the Clinton marriage. "He will not have her as a
companion if she's a senator," said Goodwin. "She wouldn't
be around to help him with his legacy, or his library."
But there is significant upside to her running. "If she wants to
be President, she has to do it," the historian said. "If you want
to be in political elective life, you don't give up a chance like
this. She would have other shots down the road, but not like
this one. This is the Big Apple."
But "if Hillary loses, she will carry the loss in her emotional
psyche forever."
Goodwin isn't the only one thinking about our First Lady.
George Plimpton loves the idea that she may move to New
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York.
"It'd be great for New York," he said at Monday's Americans
for the Arts National Arts Award Gala at Lincoln Center.
"She'd probably teach at Columbia or the New School. The
Clintons could go to Elaine's and get a regular table with
Woody Allen. Of course, if she's in the Senate, she'd spend
most of her time in D.C. Then it would be interesting to see
where he'd go."
Alec Baldwin is looking forward to the
prospect of a Hillary Clinton campaign,
especially one that would pit her against
Mayor Giuliani.
"I think Hillary would kick Giuliani's a--
up and down the Hudson," Baldwin stated
at the Rainforest Alliance event that
honored him Monday at the Chelsea Piers.
Corkery NEWS But the actor also confessed to being fed
Alec Baldwin
up with the current political climate in both
parties. "If the Democratic and Republican parties are still
going to go after each other in an ugly, vitriolic
personality-driven way," he said, "then the country is is
headed for some watershed disaster."
But no matter what happens in the Senate race, Baldwin said,
"I think Rudy is finished."
With Emily Gest
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HEADLINE: CLINTON DENIES SHE COMMITTED TO SENATE RUN
BYLINE: By Judy L. Randall Newhouse News Service
DATELINE: NEW YORK
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Staten Island Democratic Party Chairman Robert Gigante said Hillary Rodham
Clinton told him she will run for the U.S. Senate next year, but Clinton denies
it.
"I asked her, 'Do you have good news for the people of Staten Island?" said
Gigante, who attended a fund-raiser Clinton headlined Monday night in Manhattan.
"And she said, 'Yes.' So I said, 'Does that mean you're running?' And she said,
'Yes.'
"I was stunned, stunned. We have a candidate!" Gigante said.
Gigante told the Staten Island Advance that Clinton made the statements
during a chat with him and his wife, Barbara, as Clinton worked the room at a
$1,000-a-head fund-raiser for Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y. Lowey has said she will
run for the Senate seat if Clinton does not.
Harold Ickes, a political adviser to Clinton, said there had been "a good
faith misunderstanding" between Clinton and Gigante. Ickes, who was not at the
fund-raiser, said he asked Clinton about it Tuesday and she said: "I didn't tell
him I was running."
"Gigante is a wonderful guy and has been a loyal supporter from the
beginning," Ickes said. "She has not made up her mind." Ickes said Clinton will
be "mulling it over" for the next several days during a Florida vacation with
the president. "When she gets back she could say no, she could say yes, she
could say nothing. All I can say is she has very high regard for (Gigante),"
said Ickes, a former deputy White House chief of staff and longtime Democratic
party activist in New York.
Clinton's staff has said she would announce her plans in June or July. But
New York state Democratic officials have been quietly urging that she make her
intentions known sooner rather than later.
Clinton has made repeated visits to the state in the past two months. Her
staff said she has decided to make New York City her home when she leaves the
White House -- if not before.
Clinton has been running neck and neck in the polls with Republican New York
City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has all but announced for the seat being
vacated by Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Perhaps as a measure of
growing concern over Clinton's interest in running, Giuliani has been calling
the Chicago native and Arkansas transplant a carpetbagger for whom New Yorkers
would be wary of voting.
Previously, Giuliani said he didn't think her brief residency should be an
issue.
Also in the Senate mix is state Rep. Rick Lazio, a Republican from Long
Island. Lazio has been critical of Giuliani in recent days, calling him a
"reluctant Republican" for the mayor's failure to take a more conservative
stance on a variety of issues ranging from abortion and gay rights to welfare
reform and a commuter tax.
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Westchester may be too pricey for the president
By JIM FITZGERALD= Associated Press Writer=
BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) Bill and Hillary Clinton's Westchester County dream
house won't come cheap.
At least that's the view of Sally Siano, a real estate agent who has found
homes for several of the rich and famous in Westchester's horse country.
On Tuesday, as The New York Times reported that the Clintons were
considering making Westchester their post-presidential home, Ms. Siano
thought of four available houses that might suit them. The cheapest was
listed at $5.3 million.
Mrs. Clinton, who may run for the Senate, has said she plans to live in
New York ``no matter what I end up doing. And The Times reported that
friends say she has people looking at houses in Westchester, where property
values are among the highest in the nation.
The problem is, the Clintons aren't fabulously rich. Together, they earned
just over $500,000 last year and he'll soon be out of a job. What if the
household has to get along on a U.S. senator's salary of $136,700?
``Maybe there's someone who would buy a house for them and let them use
it, Ms. Siano said brightly.
Security and golf courses are on the Clintons' must-have list, which would
seem to push them toward the northern end of the county, with its open spaces,
its big estates and Donald Trump eager to turn much of it into sand traps and
fairways.
Older southern suburbs like Scarsdale and Bronxville have cachet but real
estate agents said there's rarely anything on the market there that would fit
the Clintons' need for space.
One exceptionally large lot, just over an acre, was on the market last
week for $3.1 million, but an acceptable offer has been made, said Vera
Blendermann, sales manager at the Houlihan & Lawrence office in Bronxville.
Too bad, because the place came with
a guest cottage, ``perfect for the Secret Service.
Ms. Siano said security wouldn't be a problem at the places she has in
mind, all in Bedford, where neighbors would include Richard Gere, Chevy Chase,
Glenn Close, Ralph Lauren and tycoons Nelson Peltz and George Soros.
``There are a couple of big residences here, really big estates that have
highly professional security systems, lights and cameras and all of that,
she said. 'You'd have to pay between six and 20.
The ``million'' was understood.
The houses she has in mind range from 7,000 square feet to 22,000 square
feet, from four bedrooms to 10. The $5.3 million home has a pool house and ``a
three-car garage building, a beautiful one, set aside from the house with an
apartment above it. Chelsea could have her own house on the property, Ms.
Siano said.
If Mrs. Clinton can let go of the Westchester idea, Ms. Siano said, ""I
have the perfect residence for her and she can buy it under $4 million. It's
in Pawling, in Dutchess County. It was the last house owned by Lowell Thomas.
It's 50 acres, there are three houses on the property, with views of about
three states.
``It's got the columns just like the White House, Ms. Siano said. ``And
it's white!''
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Gore hopes Hillary Clinton runs for Senate
DALLAS (Reuters) - Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday he hoped First
Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton decided to run for a U.S. Senate seat from New
York next year and he was convinced she would win if she did.
Addressing Hispanic-Americans at a gathering in McAllen, Texas, Gore
said: ``If Hillary Clinton decides to run for the United States Senate, Tipper
and I are convinced she's going to win and be a great United States senator. I
think she's going to have a resounding victory if she runs, and I certainly
hope she does.
It was the first public comment by Gore on the prospect of Mrs. Clinton
running for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick
Moynihan.
Mrs. Clinton is said to be close to a decision to establish
a campaign exploratory committee that would enable her to begin raising money
for the race next year. Her likely Republican opponent would be New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
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Mrs. Clinton is Giuliani target at fund-raiser
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, appearing at a
major fund-raiser Tuesday, gave a glimpse of the type of campaign he might
wage if he runs for U.S. Senate and if his opponent is Hillary Clinton.
Jumping on the carpetbagger issue that Clinton has no roots in New York,
Giuliani donned a red Arkansas jacket and cap and announced he was headed to
Little Rock, where the first lady lived when President Clinton was state
governor.
``I'm going to say, 'I've never lived in Arkansas, I've never worked in
Arkansas, I've never been to Arkansas, but I love Arkansas, ... he said to a
crowd of some 1,700 supporters.
``In fact, I love it so much I'm going to be running for the Senate,
Giuliani continued. ``And do you know how I'm going to prepare for it? I'm
going to come here and take a vacation, in Arkansas.
Giuliani has not officially declared his candidacy for the Republican
Senate nomination but says he is considering it seriously. He has established
a political action committee, has been raising money and has traveled around
the country in hopes of building support.
Mrs. Clinton, who Monday made her ninth visit to the state this year, has
said she is seriously considering a bid for the Democratic Senate nomination.
Making clear that he would not let voters forget that she has neither
lived nor worked in New York, Giuliani then tackled another prickly Clinton
issue.
``Just exactly where, he asked the crowd, ``is the Whitewater River?''
Political observers have cautioned that should Clinton run, the
oft-acerbic and pugnacious mayor is likely to wage a hard-hitting campaign
and raise such issues as carpetbagging, the White House sex scandal and the
Whitewater real estate investigation.
Giuliani's fund-raiser featured an address by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,
brother of the Republican Party's presidential front-runner, Texas Gov. George
W. Bush.
The bash, which was held at a midtown Manhattan hotel and which
organizers said raised $2.1 million, was the latest in a whirl of political
fund-raising here this week.
On Monday, Republican Gov. George Pataki held a news conference, the
contents of which had been cloaked in secrecy and which stirred much
speculation, to announce that he would endorse George W. Bush in the
presidential race.
The first lady, meanwhile, appeared at a fund-raiser for Democratic Rep.
Nita Lowey, who plans to run for the Senate nomination if Clinton does not.
The $1,000-a-plate Lowey event raised almost $1 million, organizers said.
Advisers to Clinton say they believe if she decides she does not want to
run, she will say so early next month after a Florida vacation with the
president.
The Senate seat is being vacated by retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick
Moynihan.
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How many more hints can Hillary Rodham Clinton give that she is leaning
toward running for a Senate seat from New York. Whether she will or not remains
to be seen since she is playing her cards close to her chest. And she is not
expected to announce before getting a reality check on her chances, fund-raising
possibilities and all other aspects of a major campaign, starting with the
"exploratory committee" she intends to form. She has already publicly
announced that she plans to live in New York, no matter what, after she moves
out of the White House. In recent years, the first lady has spent more time on
the road and on world travels than at the White House. In some ways, 1600
Pennsylvania Ave. has not had the allure for her as it has for some former first
ladies. Her role in the Executive Mansion has appeared more obligatory than one
of a mistress who genuinely enjoys and cherishes her historic surroundings. She
has been reclusive at the White House except when she is engaged in official
entertaining. Other first ladies have had pals from the past who visit. Bess
Truman often invited her lady friends from the Trumans' hometown of
Independence, Mo., to visit her at the White House, although she was not
enchanted with Washington. Mamie Eisenhower had her card-playing buddies. Jacqu
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If she decides to run for New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Senate
seat, friends say Hillary Rodham Clinton will put off publishing her forthcoming
book on White House entertaining. One friend said the first lady feels it might
have too much of a Martha Stewart feel. She also wants to shed the White House
and carpetbagger image if she decides to run. Some of her problems in running
will be collecting money and distancing herself from the White House and any
appearance of a conflict -- such as using government transportation, which the
Secret Service would want her to do. On political trips, she would have to
reimburse the government. The first lady is expected to make her decision soon
after threshing out the pros and cons with her husband during their Florida
vacation. All systems appear to be go, but the problem of having to be in two
places at once may be difficult to overcome -- unless she designates Tipper
Gore, wife of the vice president, as her social surrogate at the White House.
But Gore will have other chores, such as helping to get her husband the
Democratic presidential nomination, and if that succeeds, the presidency. ---
Former White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater is steering clear of
politics and writing a novel. Now a newlywed, Fitzwater -- who handled press
relations for both President Reagan and Bush at the White House -- has never
seemed happier. He wrote another book, during his time at the White House,
entitled "Call the Briefing." It was nonfiction and he told it very much like
it was. ---
After being embarrassed by reports that his presidential campaign was
struggling, Vice President AI Gore had a good week in the press. Of course,
there was the bit about him casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate on a key
piece of gun control legislation. But that was largely due to luck, as well as
the failure of the Senate's Republican leadership to count votes ahead of time
and anticipate the positive publicity about to accrue for Gore. Gore got
another piece of good publicity from an action clearly more calculated: When it
came time for the White House to announce federal aid for storm damage in lowa,
President Clinton handed the task to Gore, his favorite candidate in the race to
succeed him. Although such announcements are usually distributed in written
form and without the participation of the vice president, the White House took
the opportunity of the Iowa aid declaration to produce a radio address in which
Gore said he and his wife Tipper "are deeply concerned about the terrible
losses suffered by many lowa families." Gore's personal concern for a
particular state, while rare, is not totally without precedent. Back on July 2,
the vice president issued aid declarations for both lowa and New Hampshire,
which happen to be the first two states to vote for major party nominees each
presidential election year. ---
Political correctness is about to come to Air Force One. For the past
several years, passengers on the presidential 747 have on occasion been treated,
at the start of their flight, to one of those videos instructing them how to put
on their seat belts and react to an emergency. It's a lot like the videos on
commercial airliners, although there are some elements unique to Air Force One.
For instance, the Air Force officers just point out where to find the life
vests, but pretty much assume their oh-so-sophisticated audience knows the
details of how to use them. Similarly, there's no request to adjust seatbacks or
stow tray tables. Also, unlike most commercial jets, Air Force One is shown on
the video with its escape chutes actually deployed, including a few casually
dressed crew members laughing it up as they demonstrate inside a hangar how much
fun it is to slide down the inflatable plastic tubes. And, of course, there's
the seat belt buckles emblazoned with the presidential seal. Soon, however, the
friendly and familiar video will be retired. The Air Force One bosses have
decided, after watching the competition, to hire a company used by Delta Air
Lines to produce a new animated version of its pre-flight video. The new one,
according to those involved, will include a more racially diverse cast of
characters introducing the safety features of the president's jetliner. Not
that it all matters too much. The current video is usually only shown about once
every half-dozen flights. And unlike on commercial flights, the audio is not
broadcast over the public address system, meaning any passengers actually
wanting to listen need to grab themselves a set of headphones. ---
As first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton moves toward a possible run for the
Senate from New York state, she will likely need to establish her own measure of
political independence from the White House. As a start, she might want to
consider her own distinct speechwriting team. During the first couple's recent
visit with students of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., Mrs. Clinton
said the shooting rampage by two students against their classmates "has pierced
the heart of America." Her husband followed by telling the Columbine students:
"We know somehow that what happened to you has pierced the soul of America."
While others are planning Fourth of July vacations, President Clinton is
planning to take a bipartisan group of CEOs and members of Congress on a tour of
economically distressed American communities to highlight opportunities for
innovations and creative projects to help the people. Among the stops will be
Appalachia and Native American reservations. The three-day tour starts July 5.
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QUITE apart from the major hurdle of actually getting herself elected, I
foresee enormous difficulties for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she does decide to
run for the Senate from New York while still First Lady.
These were apparent the other night when Clinton dropped by Le Cirque 2000 to
launch Matilda Cuomo's inspiring new book, "The Person Who Changed My Life," for
which the First Lady wrote the foreword.
TV crews, photographers and reporters (some of whom arrived two hours before
Clinton was due) were herded behind a rope far from the dais where she was to
speak.
Some of the photographers dashed out for ladders and long lenses; the CNN
crew decided there was no point filming at such a distance, and departed.
Everyone was very angry at being forced to the back of the bus, as it were.
The Secret Service detail accompanying Clinton shrugged it off. That's the
way it's always done with the First Lady, one agent said. Well, it may work in
D.C. and even Little Rock, but it's not the way it's done here. If the
mediadon't get access, the candidate doesn't get coverage.
Hillary's scheduling also teed off a lot of very influential New Yorkers, all
potential donors, who'd sloshed through the storms and were expecting to at
least get within a few feet of her.
Instead, after posing for a picture in the library with those featured in the
book (like Tony Bennett, Helen Gurley Brown, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Stanley Tucci
and Muriel Siebert), Hillary made a brief speech and dashed off to her next
function.
You just can't campaign that way in New York, where egos are enormous and
where the press people aren't used to being fobbed off with some pre-programmed
photo op. Then there are all those smoke-filled rooms - and we all know how
Hillary hates smokers.
I still don't think she'll run, but am pleased to see her confirming she'll
live here after the White House. Three weeks ago, I reported that her people
were looking at property in Westchester and Long Island, close to the United
Nations for her and to JKF Airport for Bill.
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N.Y. Dem says Mrs. Clinton said she is running; her camp denies
2.49 p.m. ET (1849 GMT) May 26, 1999
NEW YORK (AP) - A Democratic Party county chairman says he knows the
answer to the big question in New York politics: Will Hillary Rodham Clinton
run?
Robert Gigante, Staten Island party chairman, said Tuesday that Mrs. Clinton has
decided to run for the Senate from New York. Gigante said Mrs. Clinton told
him so at a New York City fund-raiser Monday night.
However, Mrs. Clinton's top adviser denied the first lady told Gigante any such
thing.
Gigante said he and his wife were making small talk with Mrs. Clinton when he
brought up the subject.
"I ended by saying, 'Do you have any good news for Staten Island,' and she said,
'Yes," Gigante reported. "Does that mean that you're running?' And she said,
"Yes."
Asked about the exchange, Mrs. Clinton's adviser Harold Ickes said that
according to Mrs. Clinton, the first lady told Gigante that she is thinking it over
and hasn't decided yet.
The Senate seat is being vacated next year by Democrat Daniel Patrick
Moynihan. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is among the Republicans thinking
of entering the race.
Mrs. Clinton is on vacation with President Clinton in Florida for the rest of the
week. After she returns, advisers expect her to either rule out a Senate race or
announce formation of an exploratory committee.
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HIL TALKING POINTS
Hillary Clinton's ears must have been burning.
The First Lady was the hot talk Monday as plenty of
Alisters weighed in on her impending move to New
York and her highly anticipated campaign for the U.S.
Senate.
Listen to what historian Dorls Kearns Goodwin has
to say about Hillary's political future.
"The big risk for her is that she runs and loses,"
Goodwin told me at the Le Cirque 2000 party for Matil-
da Cuomo's new book of essays, "The Person Who
Changed My Life."
"On the downside, there's the carpetbagger issue,"
she said. "It's not like she'd be running from Illinois,
where she's from, or Arkansas, where she has lived.
If Hillary Clinton decides to run for the Senate,
When Bobby Kennedy came to New York and ran for
she faces big pluses, but also big risks.
the Senate in 1966, at least he could point to the fact
that he spent part of his childhood in Riverdale and
Bronxville. And still he was stung by the carpetbagger
New School. The Clintons could go to Elaine's and get
issue."
a regular table with Woody Allen. Of course, if she's
Then there's the Clinton marriage. "He will not have
in the Senate, she'd spend most of her time in D.C.
her as a companion if she's a senator," said Goodwin.
Then it would be interesting to see where he'd go."
-She wouldn't be around to help him with his legacy,
Alec Baldwin is looking forward to the prospect of a
or his library."
Hillary Clinton campaign, especially one that would pit
But there is significant upside to her running. "If
her against Mayor Gigliani.
she wants to be President, she has to do it," the histo-
*I think Hillary would kick Giuliani's & up and down
rian said. "If you want to be in political elective life,
the Hudson," Baldwin stated at the Rainforest Alli-
you don't give up a chance like this. She would have
ance event that honored him Monday at the Chelsea
other shots down the road, but not like this one. This
Piers.
is the Big Apple."
But the actor also confessed to being fed up with
But "if Hillary loses, she will carry the loss in her
the current political climate in both parties. "If the
emotional psyche forever."
Democratic and Republican parties are still going to
Goodwin isn't the only one thinking about our First
go after each other in an ugly. vitriolic personality-driv-
Lady. George Plimpton loves the idea that she may
en way," he sald, "then the country is is headed for
move to New York,
some watershed disaster."
"It'd be great for New York," he said at Monday's
But no matter what happens in the Senate race,
Americans for the Arts National Arts Award Gala at Lin-
Baldwin said, "I think Rudy is finished."
coin Center. "She'd probably teach at Columbia or the
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Report: Clintons eye move to Westchester
NEW YORK, May 26 (UPI) President Bill Clinton and his potential U. S.
Senate candidate wife Hillary Rodham Clinton are reportedly looking for a home
in Westchester County. A source tells (Wednesday's) Daily News the couple have
more-or-less ruling out living in Manhattan, and say their ``suburb of
choice'' is the moneyed county just north of New York City.
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Repeat for all
Wellesley class of '69 takes off gloves, conquers world
GNS Books and Writing for May 26, 1999
Review
By ANN PRICHARD
USA TODAY
Rebels in White gloves: Coming of Age With Hillary's class - Wellesley
'69'' by Miriam Horn. (Times Books, 352 pp., $24)
I came within a madras headband's width of judging this book by its cover.
The title? Ludicrous!
The subtitle? Pure opportunism! Hillary Clinton's photo on the front? Too
predictable! The book itself? Loved it; couldn't put it down.
Such are the pleasant surprises in a reader's life. Low expectations from
the way a story is packaged often give way to a truly good read. Rebels in
White Gloves'' is a social history, profiling dozens of women who graduated in
1969 from Wellesley, one of the elite Seven Sisters'' colleges.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most famous class member. She is not,
however, the star of the book.
``Rebels'' offers great personal tales - inspiring, bizarre, riotous,
moving and sad. Hillary, in fact, makes but brief appearances in the book, as
if Wellesley women at age 51 had closed ranks around their famous but troubled
sister.
Even without the first lady there is some great material. Coming of age in
the 1960s, whether in Wellesley or Wichita, was a wild time of cultural change
and counterculture movements. This was the schizoid age when some college
girls couldn't chew gum and some dropped acid with Baba Ram Dass. Such a time
was bound to produce some ingenious women.
Here are looks at two:
Martha McClintock, a fourth-generation Wellesleyan, enrolled at her
mother's urging so she would have `something interesting to think about while
folding diapers.'
A science whiz at 20, Martha attended a meeting of top male biologists who
were discussing how mice in groups ovulate at the same time.
When McClintock suggested, self-consciously, that the same thing
happened among dorm women, she was met with skepticism. A Wellesley professor
urged her to make the study that led to the first scientific evidence of
pheromones and human menstrual synchrony. She now heads a $12 million lab at
the University of Chicago.
Flexible thinking seems to be her trademark.
On one major experiment, she wanted to use black wild rats instead of
albino lab rats. She paid a rat catcher for some, only to discover that she
could not mark them. McClintock tried bleaching their fur with Clairol Nice 'n
Easy, but nothing happened. In such a case, scientists consult an expert. So
I called Bonwit Teller's hair salon.
I said, 'I'm working with animals, how do you bleach their' - I didn't want to
say it was rats, so I used the word `pelts''. The colorist, Mr. Andre,
advised shampoo, followed by peroxide and then dye.
Classmate Janet McDonald Hill, who is black, grew up in segregated New
Orleans, where her parents worked 18 hours a day making crowns and dentures.
Hill now heads a successful consulting firm and sits on numerous corporate
boards. She married football player Calvin Hill. Their son, Grant, is
considered one of pro basketball's finest players, on and off the court. Janet
was strict and did much of the child rearing but received little credit.
At a sports banquet, Grant sang her praises: It's about time, Mom, you
get the credit you deserve. No more `wife of, no more `mother of,' and
especially no more `classmate of. Tonight, I am the son of Janet and Calvin
Hill
Mom taught me to respect women because she commands so much
respect. I believe the people who really change the world are people like
Janet Hill who work at it every day. She's got it goin' on. If you're gonna
step to her, you better be right; don't be half-stepping. We can call her
Janet X.
`Rebels'' is filled with anecdotal material culled from interviews and an
extensive survey of the class of 1969 by Wellesley's class of 1959.
Horn, a writer at U.S. News and World Report, weaves these remarkably
candid stories in the context of feminism and other movements. Her commentary
is sometimes dry and ponderous, and thus ``Rebels'' is best enjoyed by dipping
rather than reading straight through. Each story builds on the next, creating
an appealing class portrait of complex and terrifically bright Everywomen.
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First lady 'still thinking' about Senate seat
BY JANE FULLERTON
On the inside
agenda. The irony is that just as
the first lady would subject her-
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
she could be reclaiming a mea-
self to what would undoubtedly be
WASHINGTON After six
FIRST LADY'S Senate
sure of the normaley and privacy
a bruising political bout in a state
years as a sometimes reticent play-
race part of ambitious
she has publicly yearned for, she
known for its bare-knuckle poli-
er in the center ring of presiden-
planning in White
seems ready to strike out on a po-
tics. And she would be seeking to
tial politics and political contro-
House. Page 11A.
litical career of her own.
join the very institution that con-
versy, Hillary Rodham Clinton ap-
CLINTONS WILL
"I'm still thinking about it," she
vened an impeachment trial
pears poised to go another round.
always call Arkansas
said last week in an interview with
against her husband, where she
After nine trips to New York
home, friends say.
CBS' Dan Rather. "People are still
would have to work with col-
this year - including a one-day
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talking to me about it. I've been
leagues who voted to kick him out
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swing last week packed with polit-
very flattered by the people
of office.
ical appearances - the first lady
White House tenure.
who've come to me and asked me
But now those same observers
is by all accounts on the brink of
As she vacations with President
to consider it. And I'm obviously
say they'll be surprised if she
beginning a campaign for the U.S.
Clinton this holiday weekend in
very interested."
doesn't run.
Senate that would perpetuate the
Florida, the topic of the first lady's
Only a few months ago, friends
"She is clearly still in a forward
groundbreaking nature of her
future career tops the first family's
and advisers were skeptical that
See FIRST LADY, Page 10A
TO MARSHA BERRY
P.06/19
Hillary shows a Faubus-like skill
O
n the day after Wednesday night's
would say that she is a Stepford wife, re-
meeting of the Dan Rather-Hillary
placed by a robot, who always says and does
Clinton Mutual Admiration Society,
John R.
the right thing. Her smile was as phony as
I spent a couple of hours checking the In-
Starr
any that ever graced a face. Her laugh was
ternet for a news story about the interview
as shallow and empty of emotion as an
that CBS had been ballyhooing for three
evening breeze in the Blue Ridge Moun-
days.
tains.
I didn't find such a story. Maybe it was
In the Faubus mode, Hillary talked
because I have a new Internet browser and
the Natural State with a skill learned from
around some questions without attempting
don't know how to look. More likely, it was
one of Bill Clinton's predecessors that will
to answer them. After other questions, she
because 25 minutes of chitchat between
stand her in good stead when she tries to
filibustered so long that when she finally
CBS' aging anchor and a first lady who
deal with New York's disrespectful, con-
shut up, both Rather and viewers had for-
wants to be a senator generated not a shred
tentious and usually biased new media.
gotten the question.
MAY 31 '99 13:05 FR SKIP RUTHERFORD
of news.
Not since reporters were asking Orval E.
Not once did Rather, who once argued
Everything we heard, we had heard be-
Faubus why he ignited the Little Rock in-
with presidents at news conferences, re-
fore. Hillary's explanation that she was stay-
tegration crisis has one politician talked so
spond to one of her obfuscating answers by
ing with her husband, the president, be-
much without saying anything while trying
reminding her that she had not answered
cause the two had formed a deep, personal
to answer a potentially embarrassing ques-
the question. Folks who do boorish things
attachment during 2A years of marriage had
tion.
like that don't get exclusive interviews.
leaked out of the Rather interview a couple
Rather's obsequiousness put to shame
When she talked about the need to turn
of days earlier.
Larry King, the long-time specialist in puff-
this violent country around, I would have
Although I didn't learn anything, the in-
ball questions. In fact, Rather seemed awed
asked what kind of signal is sent about vi-
terview was worth watching. It was the first
by Hillary in a way that Arkansans never
olence when the president abandons diplo-
time Hillary has been so extensively inter-
were. The silly little smirk that he wore
macy and send hundreds of warplanes to
viewed this year. We got our first lengthy
throughout the interview warned that there
pulverize a tiny, poor country because of
look at her at the end of her metamorphosis
was going to be no meat on this turkey.
something its leaders did.
from good old Arkansas girl who both
To his credit, Rather did ask Hillary why
And when she answered that we had to
talked and shot straight to svelte urbanite
she stays with her lying, philandering hus-
do something about suffering in Kosovo, I
who plans to spend her post-White House
band, but he asked it the way a society
would have pointed out that suffering in
years in Gotham City, regardless of whether
writer, not a real reporter, would ask it.
Kosovo has increased a thousand-fold in
she wins the Senate race.
First, he made an inane little speech
the two months since the bombing started.
It was not a pretty sight. Elegantly coifed,
about how much he respected Hillary's pri-
In addition, innocent citizens of Yugoslavia
meticulously made up, looking down her
vacy. Then he apologized for asking a ques-
are suffering a hundred times as much be-
TO MARSHA BERRY
nose at a fellow who once was one of this
tion he had to ask. Finally, instead of asking
cause of the bombing as Kosovars were suf-
country's great reporters, she demonstrat-
for himself, he slid backwards into the
fering from ethnic cleansing before the
ed that there is more of New York in her
question by saying it was one sure to be
bombing started.
than there is of Illinois, where she grew up,
asked by the New York media.
It doesn't matter to a dead man whether
or of Arkansas, where she lived most of her
I do not intend to indicate that there is
a Serb bullet or a NATO bomb kills him.
adult life. She'll fit the Big Apple a lot bet-
any way Rather could have conducted a
ter than the glove fit O.J. Simpson.
real interview with this woman who now
P.15/19
It was also evident to veteran observers
seems as hollow as her husband.
John R. Starr is the farmer managing editor of the
of the Arkansas political scene that she left
If I had not already used the analogy, I
Democrat-Gazette.
MAY 31 '99 13:02 FR SKIP RUTHERFORD
TO MARSHA BERRY
P.10/19
Clintons plan
to live in NY,
first lady says
BY JANE FULLERTON
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
WASHINGTON - Regardless
of whether she runs for the U.S.
Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton
made one thing clear last week -
she and her husband will live in
on the same night Little Rock vot-
ers defeated its sales tax issue, Hot
Springs voters approved a boud is-
sue to help reopen Magic Springs
amusement park.
The Hot Springs bond issue,
New York once they leave the
Huckabee said, "is much more sim-
ilar to this than anything like the
Little Rock package, so I would say
I was more comforted by what Hot
Springs did than I was troubled by
White House.
But friends of the first lady were
quick to say that doesn't mean the
Clintons won't be spending time in
what Little Rock did."
the president's home state. After
all they point out, his presidential
library will be in Little Rock.
"It's fair to say Arkansas will al-
ways be home to the Clintons."
said Lisa Caputo, the first lady's
former communications director.
Hillary Clinton told CBS' Dan
Rather in an interview that aired
Wednesday, "I do plan to live in New
York no matter what I end up doing."
tax increase in the history of Ar-
kansas and to pay for a bond issue
that would outlive the roads. We're
asking people for a short term
bond issue and no tax increases on
Huckabee brushed aside the
idea that the resounding defeat of
a sales tax proposal in Little Rock,
the state's most populous city, last
week might bode ill for his high-
way bond measure. He noted that
The first lady returned to the top-
"again when asked why she was
considering a Senate race in New
York rather than in Illinois where
she grew up or in Arkansas where
she spent most of her adult years.
:" never could have predicted
something like this could have oc-
their ballot."
curred, but people came to me and
asked me to consider it," she said.
Of course, I've been thinking
about and talking to Bill about
living there after we finish in the
White House. I think that both of
us would really enjoy that."
Friends expect the Clintons to
thought this election might be seen
by some as a referendum on Mike
Huckabee, the governor said. "Let
me answer that on election night."
Huckabee said the issues be.
fore voters in this election and
Tucker's proposal bear little re-
"What we're looking at is, we're
not raising any taxes, and that's the
key," he said. "[Tucker's] proposal
called people to vote on the largest
have some kind of permanent resi-
dence in Arkansas and to use the
presidential library as a base of
operations.
In addition, the Clintons have
friends and family in Arkansas, in-
cluding the president's stepfather
in Hot Springs and the first lady's
semblance.
mother in Little Rock.
has always been my feeling
that the president would have a
permanent and much-used resi-
dence here," said Diane Blair. a for-
mer University of Arkansas politi-
cal science professor who is close to
the Clintons. "But it also has always
been my assumption that they
would spend a lot time elsewhere."
Ncel Lattimore, the first lady's
former press secretary, doesn't
think anyone should take offense
if the Clintons settle in New York.
"What happens is that when they
became president and first lady.
they became president and first
lady for every state."
whatever decision the first lady
more traditional role as first lady
ried about how such a campaign
makes. Even Rep. Nita Lowey, the
and as she gained public support
might interfere with Hillary Clin-
Democratic representative from
during the Monica Lewinsky inves-
ton's duties as first lady. Only 35
New York who would like to run for
tigation and the subsequent im-
percent said that was a concern; 64
the Senate, is deferring to Hillary
peachment proceedings. During
percent said it wasn't an issue.
Clinton, putting her own potential
the early part of her husband's first
Those who know the first lady
campaign plans on hold. But there
term, when she took on the kind of
are glad to see that she's emerging
also are those, including former
policy role that would be required
from the low-profile role she
MAY 31 '99 13:01 FR SKIP RUTHERFORD
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who
of a Senate candidate, her popular-
played over the past year as the
are urging the first lady not to run.
ity was decidedly lower.
Lewinsky controversy swirled
The electorate, meanwhile, ap-
When it comes to whether she
around her husband.
pears to be divided.
should run for the Senate, 44 per-
"One of the things I'm most
Nationally, Hillary Clinton is en-
cent are in favor, 47 percent op-
heartened by is the fact that she's
joying some of her highest poll rat-
posed. Various polls in New York
considering it," said Lattimore:
ings, with a 71 percent approval rat-
state matching her against Giuliani
"She could be discouraged from
ing in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup
have produced differing results.
public service after all she's been
survey taken last week.
Sometimes she's ahead; sometimes
through. But this is a chance for her
Notably, those poll numbers
he's ahead.
to put a little shine on an institu-
have moved up as she took on a
But voters don't seem too wor-
tion that's fairly tarnished."
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MAY 31 '99 13:01 FR SKIP RUTHERFORD
TO MARSHA BERRY
P.07/19
First lady
It's something she hasn't tried be-
might make a better candidate than
fore."
her husband.
But running for office is some-
Hubbell wrote that "what I nev-
Continued from Page 1A
thing Hillary Clinton has consid-
er told anyone was that Hillary had
mode, moving ahead with the ex-
ered before.
actually floated her candidacy"
ploration. But I don't think it's 100
In 1990, when her husband was
past him and other friends.
percent yet," said former Universi-
up for re-election to a fifth term as
Hubbell's view on whether
ty of Arkansas political science
Arkansas governor but admitted he
Hillary Clinton could withstand a
Professor Diane Blair, a close
had no "fire in the belly," Hillary
challenge from a firebrand of an
friend of the first lady.
Clinton privately contemplated
opponent: "Frankly, knowing
In her discussions with Hillary
seeking the office herself.
Hillary, I wasn't worried about that.
Clinton, Blair said the prospective
Her musings about running for
I knew she could dish it out with
Senate campaign has moved from
governor were detailed in Webb
the best of them."
"the impossible to the possible to
Hubbell's 1997 book, Friends in High
Once again, Hillary Clinton is
the not-quite-probable."
Places: Our Journey from Little Rock
contemplating her potential candi-
But it will likely be several more
to Washington, D.C. Hubbell - the
dacy largely in private. Among
weeks before the first lady makes a
former associate attorney general
those she has turned to for advice
public pronouncement.
who served time on charges stem-
are key members of the president's
Advisers do not expect her to
ming from the Whitewater investi-
political teams from both 1992 and
announce formation of an ex-
gation and is currently awaiting tri-
1996. They include former White
ploratory committee before July.
al on two other indictments -
House deputy chief of staff and
Such a move would allow her to be-
worked with Hillary Clinton at Lit-
New York lawyer Harold Ickes, po-
gin fund raising - and to pay for
tle Rock's Rose Law Firm.
litical consultant Mandy Grunwald
her political trips with campaign
In discussing the 1990 race,
and New York lawyer Susan
funds. Her frequent visits to the
Hubbell wrote that Stephens Inc. ti-
Thomases.
Empire State - generally under-
tans Jack and Witt Stephens had
Democrats are generally pre
written with taxpayer funds in her
suggested that Hillary Clinton
senting a unified face in support 0
role as first lady - have already
begun to draw criticism from New
York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the
likely Republican candidate.
For most, forming an explorato-
ry committee is a perfunctory step
before officially beginning a cam-
paign. But Hillary Clinton's advis-
ers caution that even if she does
take that step, it doesn't guarantee
she'll actually run.
"She can't do what most candi-
dates can do because she's a sitting
first lady," said her former press
secretary, Neel Lattimore. "So for
her, an exploratory committee
means just that- an avenue to ex-
plore."
In talking to those familiar with
the first lady's thinking, the word
"methodical" repeatedly crops up
to describe the process she is going
through in weighing whether to
seek the seat being vacated next
year by longtime Democratic Sen.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
"It's the $64,000 question," said
Lisa Caputo, the first lady's former
communications director. "She is
clearly taking her time with this,
being methodical and analytical,
which is wise, because ultimately
this is a life decision- whether the
Senate is the right venue for her."
There are those- including an-
other former first lady, Rosalynn
Carter - who have maintained that
Hillary Clinton would be diminish-
ing the platform she will have as a
former first lady by seeking a Sen-
ate seat.
Lattimore doesn't think so. "I
don't know if it's a step down. It's a
different step, a different avenue.
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the First Lady visiting the New York Post
paign, on the ground of gender solidarity.
editorial board, or sharing a podium with
On the other hand, a Clinton-Giuliani
Six more years?
Al Sharpton. The more we fantasize
Senate race might prove tiresome. The
about this race, the more it feels like a
Mayor can be tiresome all by himself.
H
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government subsidy for wayward jour-
The First Lady is not noted for her easy-
RODHAM
nalists. Consider the alternative: mean-
going bonhomie. This would not be a
CLINTON'S
dering through Iowa with Al Gore,
charm-off. There is also a fair amount of
drift toward a race for
stumping with Steve Forbes in New
Clinton Fatigue abroad in the land. In a
United States senator from New York
Hampshire? No contest.
poll last month, seventy-four per cent of
in the year 2000 is at once astonish-
There is also the thematically volup-
the respondents said they were fed up
ing, exhilarating, and deeply weird. Her
tuous prospect of watching Bill Clinton
with all the problems associated with the
prospective candidacy-the Washington
join Bob Dole in the humble ranks of po-
Clinton White House. At this point, the
Post said last week that she is all but
litical spouses-or perhaps not so hum-
self-involved Clintons seem like teen-
certain to run-invites an impish, not
ble. The President's back-seat-driving
agers finally going off to college. Do we
quite sober response. It raises all sorts of
tendencies have already been demon-
really want them to stay around for six
naughty, nihilistic questions: Why on
strated by his public kibbitzing, via the
more years?
earth is she doing this? Why is she doing
Times, in the campaign of his other life
A Hillary Clinton candidacy would
this to us? Is she doing it as the obvious
partner, the Vice-President. (He admit-
mean that we'd be forced to relive all the
next step in a lifetime of devoted public
ted to being worried that Gore had been
tribulations of the recent past, this time
service or are we witnessing a particularly
stumbling a bit.) Dole, meanwhile, has
from the First Lady's point of view-and
grisly episode in the world's most over-
announced, also via the Times, that he is
not just the requisite revisitation of her
analyzed marital melodrama? Does it
commodities-trading
mean that he'll be spending a lot of time
and billing records but
around here, too?
also a never-ending
One can see Mrs. Clinton as a senator.
string of embarrassing
She knows the issues. She speaks well. She
questions: Would you
has a senatorial sense of personal in-
have keelhauled Lani
evitability. She is probably more qualified
Guinier? How would
for high office than many of the profes-
you have voted on wel-
sional wrestlers and radio talk-show hosts
fare reform? A thirteen-
entering the lists across America these
hundred-page health-
days. (It is, by the way, far more diffi-
insurance-reform bill-
cult to see the operatic and peremptory
what were you think-
Rudolph Giuliani spending six years
ing? And the horrible,
one tiny vote among a hundred.) But one
inevitable "How did you
can also wonder whether the First Lady
feel" questions. (Poor
came to this career move rationally or in a
Al Gore. He could find
moment of ire, announcing to her hus-
himself running for
band, "Listen, Bub, I've spent the last
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani
President and competing
twenty-five years going to watermelon
tempted to contribute to one of Eliza-
with a Senate campaign that would
festivals, smiling like a mummy, and
beth Dole's opponents in the Republican
constantly remind the public of all the
making a fool of myself over you. From
Presidential campaign. Indeed, the recent
things that were loathsome about the
now on, I set the agenda. Even if I decide
interventions of Messrs. Clinton and Dole
Administration in which he served.)
ILLUSTRATION BY TOM BACHTELL
to do something as preposterous as-
may represent a real breakthrough in
Perhaps the greatest challenge Mrs.
as run for the Senate from New York!"
public life-the liberation of the long-
Clinton will face, should she decide to
A Clinton-Giuliani race would be de-
suffering political spouse. Donna Han-
run, is the fact that she seems, in the end,
lightfully gaudy and excessive, of course.
over, the semi-estranged wife of the Mayor,
a pretty normal person, and New Yorkers
Imagine the debates. Imagine the nega-
can now plausibly announce her inten-
are not overimpressed by normality. Dur-
tive advertising, on both sides. Imagine
tion to contribute to Mrs. Clinton's cam-
ing the past decade, there has been a de-
32
THE NEW YORKER, MAY 31, 1999
lightful run of elected eccentrics-Cuo-
squiggles, the meaning of which was
sion of Random House. Sandwiched be-
mos and Koches, D'Amatos and Moyni-
known only to Whitehead and Russell.
tween "An American Dilemma," by
hans. These are people who tend to yell
In order to carry out their chosen task-
Gunnar Myrdal, and "The Mismeasure
back when they're yelled at; sometimes
the derivation of the entire corpus of
of Man," by Stephen Jay Gould, White-
they even yell first. They are fast and
mathematics from a single set of axioms,
head and Russell's gargantuan work had
funny and neurotic and contentious
using formal logic-the two philosophers
finally achieved a status whose paradox
and-openly, publicly-vulnerable.
had been forced to invent an entirely new
would surely have appealed to them: a
Which is to say that they represent New
language. "I imagine no human being
must-read book that is, for all intents and
York as it imagines itself to be. It will be
will ever read it through," Russell con-
purposes, unreadable.
interesting to see if Hillary Rodham
fided to a friend. C.U.P. was equally un-
The last complete edition of "Prin-
Clinton can meet this perverse and
enthusiastic. It refused to print the book
cipia Mathematica" was published, by
endearing standard. -JOE KLEIN
unless Russell and Whitehead paid
C.U.P., in the early sixties, and it is hard
part of the cost of publication, which
to find. (Amazon.com offers it at five
prompted Russell to remark, "We thus
hundred and sixty-five dollars, but warns
INK
earned minus fifty pounds each for ten
that delivery may take four to six weeks.)
years' work."
An abridged edition, covering Volume I of
The most influential book never read.
Russell's estimate of the size of his
the original, is still in print, but it reaches
and Whitehead's potential audience
only as far as Theorem 56; Whitehead
OME ninety
proved unduly pessimistic, but just slightly.
and Russell didn't stop until they reached
years ago, two
"I used to know of only six people who
Theorem 375. Even professional logi-
bright sparks from
had read the later parts of the book,"
cians rarely work their way through the
Cambridge Uni-
he wrote in the nineteen-fifties. "Three
whole thing. "People don't need to read
versity, Alfred North Whitehead and
of them were Poles, subsequently (I
it because the important things in it
Bertrand Russell, delivered a two-thou-
believe) liquidated by Hitler. The other
have been done more clearly elsewhere,"
sand-five-hundred-page manuscript to
three were Texans." It came as something
Hartry Field, a mathematical philosopher
their editors at Cambridge University
of a surprise, then, when, earlier this
at New York University, said last week.
Press. The monstrous tome, too heavy to
month, "Principia Mathematica" surfaced
Some people involved with the
be carried comfortably by one man, was
at No. 23 on a list of the century's hun-
Modern Library list were mystified by
entitled "Principia Mathematica," and
dred greatest nonfiction books, which
the inclusion of Russell and White-
much of it was taken up by strange
was compiled by Modern Library, a divi-
head. "I have no idea how 'Principia
Mathematica' got on the list," Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr., one of a thirteen-member
THE GROUND FLOOR
panel that chose the books, said last
week. "I doubt whether very many of the
judges have read the three volumes."
Even Stephen Jay Gould, the sole scien-
tist on the panel, said that he had little to
do with "Principia"'s selection. "I've read
large parts of it, but I haven't read it
all. Does anyone read it in its entirety?"
Apparently, they do. "I have the works
here on my shelf," Charles Johnson, the
author of "Middle Passage" and four
other works of fiction, said from his of-
fice at the University of Washington
where he teaches creative writing. John-
son, who has a master's degree in philos-
ophy, was one of the judges who champi-
oned "Principia." "It is important for the
same reason that all great philosophy
books are great," he added. "It is reason-
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and Whitehead had set out to do couldn't
be done. Gödel's famous "incompleteness
theorems," which have withstood nearly
seventy years of inspection, say that within
any logical system there are true state-
are
ments that cannot be proved. Logic, even
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First lady prepares for New York swing
By MARC HUMBERT= Associated Press Writer=
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton is planning stops across New
York to gauge what a Senate campaign in the state might be like, an adviser
said.
Mrs. Clinton is considering running for the seat being vacated next year
by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The race could pit her against New York
City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is also thinking of running.
On Monday, the Republican announced the formation of an exploratory
committee that will allow him more freedom in raising and spending money in
anticipation of a possible Senate run.
The first lady's New York trip begins next Monday with a speech at
Columbia University in New York City followed by a fund-raising event to
benefit Rep. Jerrold Nadler. The Manhattan Democrat was one of President
Clinton's biggest supporters during his impeachment.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton heads to Long Island for a visit to Hofstra
University. That night, she is back in New York City for a speech at a
$250-a-person fund-raising dinner for the United Jewish Appeal.
Also on the schedule is a speech Thursday to the annual convention of the
politically powerful New York State United Teachers Union in Niagara Falls.
Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Mrs. Clinton and a veteran of the New York
political scene, said the trip should help give the first lady a sense of what
a New York campaign would be like.
``They'll be more press, more people taking to her and so I think she'll
come away with a much better feel about the intensity of the situation,
Ickes said.
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**** printed by: WHPR (SCOH) on 04/13/99 at 08:30EST ****
(UPI Focus)
Hillary meets Kosovo refugees
WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted two
Kosovar activists who have become refugees since the start of the NATO bombing
campaign nearly three weeks ago, hearing their tales of an ongoing genocide
but offering no new proposals for immediately helping the victims.
The activists, pediatrician Vjosa Dobruna and broadcast journalist
Aferdita Kelmendi, met with the first lady today for the third time since last
June, but for the first time since they fled the fighting in Kosovo.
Dobruna estimates some 500,000 to 800,000 refugees remain behind in
Kosovo, ``living under constant threat of being liquidated.
``They are being shelled constantly, day and night, Dobruna said.
``This is a genocide that is being done in Kosovo, not only to our people, but
to every cultural monument and every trace of Kosovo culture.
The two women met the first lady shortly after President Clinton
acknowledged he was struggling with the question of how to provide food,
housing and medical care to the ``hundreds of thousands of refugees'' still
inside Kosovo.
Clinton said NATO has refrained from delivering food and other supplies to
the refugees by air out of a concern that Serbian forces will either shoot
down the aircraft or collect the deliveries before the refugees get them.
We appreciate U.S. efforts and help, Dobruna said, ``but we think
something more can be done in order to save the lives of people who are
trapped in Kosovo.'
But Dobruna and Kelmendi, who met the first lady last June in Washington
and again in October in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, said neither they nor
the first lady could propose a specific solution.
They thanked Western countries for accepting Kosovo refugees but said most
would not want to be resettled.
People are very thankful because of the help of the international
community in this direction, Kelmendi said, but the desire of the people
is to be as much possible near Kosovo, because they have a home.
She added: '`Not many of them want to go far away, because they want to go
home to Kosovo.
Dobruna, a pediatrician and trauma care specialist, founded the Center for
the Protection of Women and Children, a community clinic in Kosovo's capital,
Pristina. She said Serbian leaders fired all Albanian doctors at the clinic a
year ago.
Kelmendi is the director of Radio-TV 21 in Pristina, one of three
independent electronic media outlets in Kosovo, all of which have been shut
down by Serbian authorities. She said the station's equipment was
confiscated, and one of her correspondents, his father and his brother were
executed.
Both Dobruna and Kelmendi said they hid for several days after the start
of the NATO bombing campaign before escaping across the border into Macedonia.
They plan to travel the United States describing their experiences and
will join other activists in testifying Wednesday before a Senate
subcommittee.
Copyright 1999 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
**** filed by: UPI- (--) on 04/13/99 at 17:00EST ****
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DETROIT (AP) Soon-to-be-released clean air rules may represent the
biggest technological hurdles for the auto industry in decades and could mean
consumers will see higher-priced cars and gasoline.
The clean air rules called Tier II regulations eventually will hold cars
and trucks to the same federal pollution standard. But automakers and oil
companies are at odds over how to reach that goal, with each putting the
burden on the other.
Automakers likely will need to equip vehicles with more expensive emission
control equipment, while oil refineries could seek to recoup the expense of
producing cleaner gasoline.
Without cleaner fuels, automakers say they won't be able to meet the lower
emission rules for light trucks, which produce up to three times as much
pollution per mile driven as cars and operate under looser standards.
We can't get there from here with the technology we have on the books,
Josephine Cooper, president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, told
The Detroit News for a Wednesday story. 'We need cleaner fuels to make this
work.
Light vehicles are more than 90 percent cleaner than they were about three
decades ago. Automakers agreed voluntarily to start selling cars this year
that run 70-percent cleaner than most current models.
But the auto industry wants the oil industry to take responsibility for
cleaner air.
If the oil industry reduced sulfur in gasoline to 30 parts per million
from the 340 parts per million national average it would be akin to taking 54
million cars off the road, state regulators said.
But Marc Meteyer of the American Petroleum Institute says the oil industry
does not want to go that far. The industry proposes regional reductions,
meaning that currently less-polluted areas would make less dramatic cuts in
sulfur content.
Adopting that plan would be the equivalent of removing 23 million cars
from the road, Meteyer said.
The automakers don't want to make changes. They want us to make all the
changes, Meteyer told the News. Policy makers have to strike a balance
because they know that going to extremes in one direction or another can drive
costs up significantly for the consumer.'
Meteyer expects the cost of refining gasoline would rise by 6 cents a
gallon if the Clinton administration accepts the low sulfur levels proposed by
the automakers a cost they might pass on to consumers.
The number of vehicle miles traveled nationally continues to increase by
about 2 percent annually. Since 1970, the rate has increased 127 percent to
2.4 trillion miles in 1997.
The number of cars in this country is expected to jump 40 percent by 2010
from 1993 levels.
'With that growth comes a massive increase in both pollution and our
dependence on foreign oil, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
Carol Browner said.
While Ms. Browner and other federal regulators praise the technological
advances showcased by automakers in recent years, including electric vehicles,
hybrid power trains and clean-running fuel cells, the EPA still thinks the
auto industry needs a regulatory push.
The nation's emissions standards were last updated by Congress in 1990.
The EPA plans to reveal its proposal this month. Final standards could be set
later this year.
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**** printed by: WHPR (JMAS) on 04/14/99 at 11:36EST ****
(UPI Spotlight)
Report: Clinton to rally for Albanians
ROSEVILLE, Mich., April 14 (UPI) A report says (Wednesday) President
Clinton plans to visit a Roseville, Mich., recreation center Friday to address
Albanian-Americans involved in humanitarian aid for the Kosovo crisis. The
Detroit Free Press says a spokesman for U.S. Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich.,
announced the president's plans while addressing an Albanian church group.
**** filed by: UPI- (us) on 04/14/99 at 07:51EST ****
**** printed by: WHPR (JMAS) on 04/14/99 at 11:52EST ****
(UPI Focus)
Clinton to rally for Balkan relief
ROSEVILLE, Mich., April 14 (UPI) President Clinton plans to visit a
suburban Detroit recreation center Friday to show support for Albanian-
Americans and others providing humanitarian aid in the Kosovo crisis.
A spokesman for U.S. Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., says today the president
plans to speak with relief groups about ongoing efforts to help hundreds of
thousands of war refugees in the Balkans.
The meeting would be held in Bonior's district in Roseville, Mich. Bonior,
the House Democratic whip, plans to attend.
Also Friday, Clinton plans to attend a Democratic fund-raiser luncheon in
another Detroit suburb, Dearborn, Mich.
Pro-Serbian protesters are threatening to rally near the president's
Dearborn stop.
Two weeks ago in downtown Detroit, Albanian-Americans rallying in favor of
the NATO campaign clashed with Serbian-Americans, resulting in two arrests.
Bonior spokesman Ed Bruley tells United Press International the president
wants to address ``various groups providing humanitarian relief in Balkan
area, such as Life for Relief and Mercy International. He also encourage
the public to help.
Bruley says support for relief groups is growing. He says, 'Many of the
Albanian families in the area have volunteered to do whatever they can.
Meanwhile, an estimated 50 Albanian-Americans in the Detroit area have
pledged to join the Kosovo Liberation Army. In addition a spokesman for the
Detroit chapter of the pro-KLA group Homeland Calling says $800, 000 has been
raised for the cause.
Copyright 1999 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
**** filed by: UPI- (us) on 04/14/99 at 09:50EST ****
**** printed by: WHPR (JMAS) on 04/14/99 at 11:53EST ****
(UPI Focus)
Clinton to rally for Balkan relief
ROSEVILLE, Mich., April 14 (UPI) President Clinton plans to visit a
suburban Detroit recreation center Friday to show support for Albanian-
Americans and others providing humanitarian aid in the Kosovo crisis.
A spokesman for U.S. Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., says today the president
plans to speak with relief groups about ongoing efforts to help hundreds of
thousands of war refugees in the Balkans.
The meeting would be held in Bonior's district in Roseville, Mich. Bonior,
the House Democratic whip, plans to attend.
Also Friday, Clinton plans to attend a Democratic fund-raiser luncheon in
another Detroit suburb, Dearborn, Mich.
Pro-Serbian protesters are threatening to rally near the president's
Dearborn stop.
Two weeks ago in downtown Detroit, Albanian-Americans rallying in favor of
the NATO campaign clashed with Serbian-Americans, resulting in two arrests.
Bonior spokesman Ed Bruley tells United Press International the president
wants to address ``various groups providing humanitarian relief in Balkan
area, such as Life for Relief and Mercy International. He'll also encourage
the public to help.
Bruley says support for relief groups is growing. He says, ``Many of the
Albanian families in the area have volunteered to do whatever they can.
Meanwhile, an estimated 50 Albanian-Americans in the Detroit area have
pledged to join the Kosovo Liberation Army. In addition a spokesman for the
Detroit chapter of the pro-KLA group Homeland Calling says $800, 000 has been
raised for the cause.
Copyright 1999 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
**** filed by: UPI- (us) on 04/14/99 at 09:50EST ****
**** printed by: WHPR (JMAS) on 04/14/99 at 11:58EST ****
(UPI Spotlight)
Report: Clinton to rally for Albanians
ROSEVILLE, Mich., April 14 (UPI) A report says (Wednesday) President
Clinton plans to visit a Roseville, Mich., recreation center Friday to address
Albanian-Americans involved in humanitarian aid for the Kosovo crisis. The
Detroit Free Press says a spokesman for U.S. Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich.,
announced the president's plans while addressing an Albanian church group.
**** filed by: UPI- (us) on 04/14/99 at 07:51EST ****
**** printed by: WHPR (JMAS) on 04/14/99 at 11:58EST ****
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Fax (+389-91) 118-431
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FAX TRANSMITTAL SHEET
DATE: 5/17/99
TO:
Name: Katy Button
Organization: office of the First Jady
Fax number: 202-456-6244
FROM: PAO
Name: Philip Reeker
SUBJECT OR MESSAGE:
Press clips of Friday's FLOTUS visit,
from the major Maredonian dailies
"NGO Roundtable" transcript is almost
done; summary cable on press coverage
also on its way
Pleasure working with you
Regards, Philip R.
This message consists of cover sheet plus 8 page(s).
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"DNEVNIK" Independent, centrist, opinion maker, high circulation
Saturday, May 15, 1999
Header: The First Ladu of the United States visits Macedonia
Hosts" Title: "Hillary brings a message of hope for the refugees and support for the
Sub-titles: We won't let the crimes done by Milosevic to continue and everything we do
is to make possible for these people to go back to their homes safely, said Hillary
Clinton in Stenkovec camp
ПРВАТА ДАМА HA САД BO ПОСЕТА HA МАКЕДОНИЈА
Хилари донесе порака Ha надеж до
бегалците и поддршка 3a домакините
HeMa да дозволиме злосторството што Γo спроведува Милошевиќ да продолжи и cè
што правиме e CO цел овие луfе да можат безбедно да ce BpaTaT BO своите домови,
рече Хилари Клинтон BO кампот Стенковец
Хилари Родам Клиятон,
TO
сопруга Ha американскиот
претседател Бил Клинтов,
вчера BO Скопје длабоко à
ce заблагодари Ha Македо-
якја 3a cè што сторила 3a
бегалците од Kocoso, презе-
мајќя Γo Bp3 себе огромниот
ToBap од KocoBcKaTa криза.
Дојдов BO Република
Македонкја 3a да ги видам
и бегалците H претставни-
ците Ha хуманитарните op-
ганизации и народот BO Ma-
кедонија. CO цел да My ja HC-
кажам поддршката 3a cè
што има cTopeHo, нзјави пр-
ватэ дама Ha САД oTKaKo Γo
посети бсгалскиот камп
Стенковец.
Taa пристигна BO еднод-
HeBHa посста Ha Махсдонија
вчсра околу 10 часот, CO
специјален BoeH авион. Ha
аеродромот BO Петровсц ja
Потресека °A страдањата Ha КОСОВСКИТЕ Geranun: Хилари Родам Клинтон
пречекаа Нада Глигорова,
conpyra Ha претседателот
Bo кампот DO CTeHKo-
ЦИИ. Изразувајќи им благо-
интересираше 3a изградбата
Киро Глигоров, Борнс Tpaj-
вец, придружувана од амба-
дарност 3a добро извршена-
Ha училници 3a децата Ha
ковски, заменик-министср
садорот Хил, првата дама
Ta работа, Хилари Клинтон
бегалците и 3a продолжува-
3a надворсшни работн, M
Ha САД ce сретиа CO претс-
HM рече дска ce надева OTH
He Ha нивното школување.
Кристофер Хил. aMepHKaHc-
тавници Ha повеќе меѓуна-
ke продолжат добро да фун-
киот амбасадор BO Скопје.
родни невладини opΓaHK3a-
кционираат. Taa особено ce
(Продолжува Ha cTp. 2)
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Continuation of "DNEVNIK" piece on page 2.
ПРВАТА ДАМА HA САД BO ПОСЕТА HA МАКЕДОНИА
Хилари донесе порака Ha надеж
до бегалците 4 поддршка 3a домаќините
(Продолжука од cTp. 1)
the финансиски средства 3a помош Ha бегалинте.
Хилари Клинтов нагласк дека би сакала да
Хилари Клинтон HM препорача Ha претставници-
биде запознаена 8 проблемите CO KOR ce соочува-
TO Ha меѓународните хуманитарни организация
at THE организации, KoH ke MY ГИ пренесе Ha прет-
оти снабдуването Ha бегалинте 8 xpaHa би треба-
седателот Клинтон, 3a да можат да ce најдат Ha-
ло да BC врши од Македоннја K DO Toa да Й ce да-
чкии 3a КИВНО решавање. Taa рече дека од pa3Γo-
де макснмална поддршка Ha скономијата Ha 3eM-
ворите co бегалците што пристигнале ВО-САД
jana.
дознала OTH поголем дел од НЮ cara да ce прати
Попладнето BO резиденцијата Ha САД Ha Вод-
дома.
Ho, Хилари Клинтон ce cpeTHa CO премнерот
Дојдов 3a да донесам порака Ha надеж 3a 6c-
Љубчо Георгиевски и 8 HeΓoBaTa compyra Снежа-
галците K порака Ha поддршка 3a македонскиот
Ha.
наород K македонските аласти. cr што правиме
Посетата Ha празта дама Ha САД c галсма
e co цел oBHe луfе да можат безбедно да ce Bpa-
чест 3a Република Македонија, изјави премиерот
rat дома. HeMa да дозволнме злосторството што
Георгисвски по разговорите. "Особено MH e дра-
Γo спроведува Милошевиќ да продолжи, рече пр-
ro што посетата He ce одложи, KaKo што ce слу-
BaTa дама Ha САД. Bo кампот Стенковец Taa HMa-
чило 8 HajaBeHaTa посста Ha Албанија".
ше можност од прва paKa да PH чуе потресните
Задоволни cMe од поддршката од САД. Be-
судбини Ha неколку раздвоени бегалски Demejct-
pyBaMe дека САД *c À помогнат и повеќе Ha Ma-
Baa. TpoΓHaTa од овис стории. Клинтон рече дека
кедонија и BepyBaMe BO искреноста Ha нивните
овие ceBaHaHa долго Re ΓK HOCH CO cebe, и KoΓa зад
зборови, Ho би сакаде помошта побргу да ce pea-
Hac *e 10 оставные "KpBaBHoT 20. BCK"
лизира, рече Георгиевски.
Compyrata Ha претседателот Ha САД ro изра-
Посстата Ha сопругата Ha американскиот
зи и cBoeTo задоволство од прогресот што a има
претседател заврши вчера попладнето CO средба
постигнато американскнот KoHΓpec BO BpcKa CO
co претседателот Киро Глигоров H CO HeΓoBaTa co-
барањето Ha претседателот Клинтон 3a адобрува-
пруга Нада Глигорона.
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"MAKEDONIJA DENES" independent, centrist, influential daily
Saturday, May 15, 1999
Header: The First Lady in Macedonia
TITLE: Interested both in the refugees and in Macedonian people
Front-page
ПРВАТА ДАМА HA САД BO МАКЕДОНИЈА
Интерес 3a бегалците
и 3a македонскиот народ
Првата дама Ha Coe-
кулес, BO придружба Ha xe-
тојба BO Македонија и He-
директно да ja согледам COC-
динетите Американски Др-
ликоптерите Hajt XoyK и
јзиниот ангажман 3a зачуву-
тојбата 8 бегалците и MaKe-
жави, Хилари Клинтон, вче-
силното обезбедување Фо-
вање Ha cBojaTa стабилност K
ДОНСКОТ народ и соодветните
pa, пристигна Ha скопскиот
KH,,. Taa имаше интензивна
co работата Ha хуманитар-
активности Ha македонската
аеродром Петровец, 8 aMe-
работна посета, 8 цел да ce
ните организации.
Влада,,. изјави Хилари Клин-
риканскиот BoeH авион Xep-
залознае co актуелната COC-
Дојдов BO Македонија 3a
ToH. Taa СООПШТИ дека преку
акцијата 3a помош Ha aMe-
риканскиот KoHΓpec, спрове-
дувана ОД претседателот
Клинтон и HeΓoBaTa админ-
истрација, ce одобрени 21
милион долари 3a eKoHoM-
ско-социјална поткрепа H
pa3Boj Ha Македонија. Co
Toa, Амбасадата Ha САД BO
Република Македонија ja до-
би авторизацијата 3a спрове-
дување Ha првата транша од 2
милиони американски дола-
pH, што ke бидат фокусирани
Ha цивилниот ceKTop и pa3Bo-
jor Ha малите H средни прет-
пријатија BO државата. 3a
нив, ce предвидени и околу
800 кредити. OBaa програма
ke создаде простор и 3a 2 ил-
јади нови вработувања.
(продолжува Ha cTp.5)
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ПРВАТА ДАМА HA САД Bo МАКЕДОНИЈА
Интерес 3a
бегалците и 3a
македонскиот народ
(Продолжение од cTp.1)
Покрај помошта што САД ja одвојува 3a санирање Ha тековнитс последици
ОД KocoBcKaTa криза, најважно прашање e да ce овозможи побрзо враќањс Ha
бегалците BO KocoBo. При обиколката Ha бегалскиот камл Стенковец, Хилари
Клинтон разговараше co дел од бегалците кои ce надеваат дека HacKopo Ke
можат да ги пронајдат H останатите члснови од своите ceMejcTBa. Taa pa3ΓoBap-
ала и CO дел од бегалците кои беа транспортирани Bo Њу Церси, и кои биле де-
ЦИДНИ BO своите ставови дека caKaaT да ce BpaTaT BO своите домови. HATO и
САД можат да гарантираат дека бегалците повторно ke ce BpaTaT BO KocoBo...
изјави првата дама Ha Америка.
Госпоѓа Клинтон BO бегалскиот камп Стенковец имаше средба CO прет-
ставници Ha меѓународните хуманитарни организации кои ja презентираа CBO-
jaTa активност. Bo резиденцијата Ha американскиот амбасадор BO Македонија.
Кристофер Хил. Хилари Кликтон cc cpcTHa и CO претствници Ha македонските
невладини организации. Според Луција Поповска, претставник Ha Македон-
скиот центар 3a меѓународна соработка, HeΓoBaTa работа овде e посложена
заради присуството Ha бегалците Ha кои Mopa да им ce помогне, HO = заради Ha-
порите, преку дејствувањето Ha организациите. да ce задржат вредностите na
мултиетничкото живеење и дсмократските процеси BO државата. Хплари
Клинтон истакна дека Ha Македонија, Koja опстојува Ha oBaa липија. треба да ce
гледа KaKo Ha позитивен пример и 3a регионот и 3a cBcToT.
Ha KpajoT од cBojaTa посета Ha Македонија, Хилари Клинтон разговараше CO
македонскиот претседател, Киро Глигоров и оствари KpaTKa средба CO пре-
миерот Љубчо Гсоргиевски. Taa, престојот BO Скопје Γo искористи и 3a посета
Ha црквата Свети Cnac.
И. Серафимовая
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"NOVA MAKEDONIJA", right-of-center, pro-government
front page, Saturday, May 15, 1999
HEADER: Hillary Clinton in Skopje
TITLE: The United States will give Macedonia 21 million dollars
On page two, NOVA MAKEDONIJA also ran separate article on the Meetings of
Mrs. Clinton with Prime Minister Georgievski, and President Gligorov Titled:
"American Administration will assist Macedonia"
ИЛАРИ КЛИНТОН BO СКОПЈЕ
САД Ke и дадат
21 милион долари Ha
Македонија
Госпоѓа Клинтон соопшти дека од денес, aMe-
риканската амбасада Bo Скопје има зелено светло
3a реализирање Ha првите два милиона долари по-
мош што ги предвидува oBoj економски пакет. -
Првата дама Ha САД бете примена од претседате-
лот Глигоров и од премиерот Георгневски, a TO
посети H кампот Стенковед
Compyrata Ha претседателот
дарност Ha Македонија 3a одно-
Ha Соединетите Американски
COT KoH проблемите CO KocoBo H
Држави, Хилари Клинтон.
бегалската криза. Дојдов BO
вчера CO BOER американски
Македонија 3a да I'M посетам 6c-
aBHoH, пристигна Ha СКОПСКНОТ
галците, Ho HcTo TaKa и 3a да HM
аеродром BO cBojaTa прва еднод-
искажам благодарност Ha MaKc-
HeBHa поссти Ha Република Ma-
донскиот ПОЛИТИЧКИ BPR H Ha
кедоннја. Hea ja пречекаа co-
грабините Ha Македонија 3a CCTO
пругата Ha претсодителот Ha
ӧна urto TO прават BO справува-
дожавата Нада Глигорова, 3aMe-
HeTo 8 проблемите CO бегал.
ник-миннстерот 3a надворешни
LDITC. Jac cyM MHoΓy задоволна
работи Борис Трајковски и aM-
што cyM TyKa и би сакала да
басадорите Ha Република MaKc-
истакнам дека САД и HaTaMy ja
донија и Ha CAN BO Вашингтон
поддржуваат и ke ja поддржу-
H BO Скопје, Љубица Ачсвска и
BaaT Максдонија Ha Koja BO MO-
Кристофер Хил CO сопругата.
MeHToB й c потребна пред cè cKo-
Bo рамките Ha програмата
HoMcKa помош", изјави Хилари
Хилари Клинтон беше примена
Клинтон Ha првичинот брифинг
on претседателот Ha државата
што Γo нмаше 8 претставници
Киро Глигоров и ОД премиерот
Ha повеке мсѓународни органи-
Лубчо Гсоргиевски, a потоа no
зации BO бегалскиот камп CTeH-
посети бегалскиот камп CTeHKo-
ковец. Taa истовремено порача
ВСЦ. Исто TaKa, беа реализирани
дека помошта HaMcHeTa 3a Ma-
повеќе средби CO претставници
кедонија и 3a бегалшите треба H
Ha меѓународни макслонски NC-
HaTaMy да пристигнува 3aToa
владини и хуманитарни органи-
што Toa c еден процес што Tpae.
зацин, a. ja поссти и црквата
Истовремено нагласи дска 6c-
Свети Спас BO Скопјс.
галците caKaaT да CK одат дома,
Госпога Хилари P. Клинтон
BO
Ствиковой
DATA'
AYCDA A искажа млема благо-
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хилаги КЛИМ! CAUTIS
САД ќе И дадат 21 МИЛИОН
долари Ha Македонија
(Продолжение од 1-am cTp.)
лнонн долари помош што ГИ
напущтат cBoHTe домови". Хи-
дека THE caKaaT самоуправување
предвидува oBoj економски пз-
лари Клинтон укажа Ha TO3 дека
33 Kocoso, Toa e TOA што и HHe
KeT.
He треба ла B заборави ceBo oBa
ro caKaMe", рече Taa и додаде
3a BpeMe Ha речиси двочасов-
што cc случува долго BpeMc K
дска мсѓународната заединца
HaTa посета Ha кампот CTeHKo-
дека зад Hac Mopa да ja оставиме
HeMa да дозволи "ЗЛОТО што a
вец, праата амсриханска дама
cypoBocTa Ha 20-THOT BcK. Taa
прави претседателот Милоше-
имаше повеќе средбн и pa3Γo-
нагласи: Дојдов да донссам Ha-
ВИЁ да ΓK остави лубето надвор
BopH 8 бсгалшите од. KocoBo.
деж 3a бегалците и да ja иска-
ОД нивните домови". Хилари ro
Посети и неколку шатори каде
жам поддршката H благодарно-
реафирмираше најиовиот cTaB
што THE привремено a case-
cTa KoH македонскнот народ 3a
Ha американскнот претседател
стени, кадс urro беше следена 8
големите напори и ToBapoT што
дека the биде предложен 3aKoH 3a
бурни поздравувања H аплаузи
Toj ro презема и oHa што Toj a
помош Ha Македонија BO aMepH-
од дсцата. По средбите 8 бегал-
прави. Исто TaKa да ja изразам K
канскиот KoHΓpec. Taa рече
WHTC Taa изјави: Curre caKaaT да
американската и меѓународната
дека администрацијата подго-
ce BpaTaT дома, да живеат BO
поддршка дека правиме ce LUTO
TByBa програма koja би R упа-
мир H BO сигурност. Денес, ба-
можсмс OBHC луѓе што поскоро
тила директна помош Ha Maxc-
pcm 3a MoMeHT ce ставив BO НИВ-
да cc BpaTaT дома".
донија ОД околу 21 милион до-
HaTa ситуација, BO нивната при-
Bo рамките Ha еднодневната
ларя намснети 3a поддрщка Ha
Ka3Ha. Temko c да cc дожнвува
посета Хилари Клинтон надвор
ековомијата и фивансирање Ha
ceTo oHa што ro преживеале
од официјалннот дел Ha прото-
ВОСНИ H социјални институции.
многумина on нив, KaKo сдна
колот ja поссти и црквата Свети
Tas HcTo TaKa соопшти дека од
cTapa жена, Koja He 3Hae каде ce
Crac, a потоа BO резидснцијата
денес американската амбасада
HaoΓa3T нејэнните деца, Hej3H-
Ha амсриканскнот амбасадор BO
BO Скопје има зелено светло 3a
ните внуши, KoΓa биле прину-
Република Македонија Кристо-
реализирање Ha првите дна MR-
дени co полиднска присила да re
фер. Хил.
J. Мировски
СРЕДБИ HA ХИЛАРИ клинтон CO КИРО ГЛИГОРОВ и CO ЛУПЧО
ГЕОРГИЕВСКИ
Американската администрација
Ke ja помогне Македонија
Прагта дама Ha САД Хи-
пари Клинтон, вчера BO
Cronje pa3ΓoBapaTe 8 претсе-
вателот pa Република Македо-
нија Кяро Глигоров K. 8 пре-
мисрот. Љушчо Георгисвски.
По средбата CO премнерот Te-
оргневски, Koja ce реалиэн-
pame BO резнденцијата Ha ame-
риканскиот амбасадор BO
Схопје, премнерот изјави:
Пенециата посета Ha Хилари
Клинтон c американска
петрика 3a Македонија H HaM
HK B особено задоволство што
Taa, сепак, дојде TyKa. Ja Иско-
ристивыс можноста 3a изворно
информирање 8 проблемите
Ba нашата држава, особено, CO
кризата co бегалците и финан-
сиската помош што Я e no-
требна Ha Република Македо-
нија".
Срдечна средба Ha Хилари Клинтон 8 промиерот Льупмо Георги-
Ha прашањето дали c yBe-
евски M co MBΓoBaTa conpyre
Фото: f. Личовски
pen BO поддршката Ha САД
Глигоров и од HeΓoBaTa co-
јалната сфера, Ho и од cTpaHa
KOH Македонија, Георгиевски
пруга:
Ha приватните инвеститори,
рече: Задоволии cMe ОД
Bo pa3ΓoBopoT r-fa Клин-
HaKo истакна дска вистинскнот
поддршката, BepyBaMe BO ис-
TOH ΓH изнесе впечатоците ОД
одговор би бил Kpaj Ha KoH-
KpeHocTa Ha истата, Toa што
нејэината посета Ha Република
фликтот и враќање Ha бегал-
HHe cera Γo бараме e Taa
Македонија и разговорите што
шите Ha Kocono.
поддршка да дојде што побр-
TH имала, KaKo и сознанисто 3a
Претседатслот Глигоров ja
30", Toj изразн уверување дска
состојбата co бегалците од Ko-
поздрави ccTa солидарност и
HacKopo kc cc згалеми и фи-
COBO, Ho и 3a економските им-
хуманитарна помош ОД меѓу.
нансиската помош 3a нашата
пликации BO 3eMjaTa. Taa ja
народната заедница, HO потен-
scMja.
пренесе подготвеноста Ha aMe-
цираше дека oHa што BO oBoj
По средбата CO премисрот,
риканската администрација 3a
MOMCHT c НСОПХОДНО e продол-
Хилари Клинтон беше при-
помош Ha Република Максдо-
жено и зголсмено преземање
MeHa од претседателот Киро
нија BO стопанската и BO cour-
бегалии 80 трсти земји.
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"VECER" centrist, pro-government tabloid, high circulation
Header: Hillary Clinton in Skopje
TITLE: Hope for the Refugees, Gratitude for Macedonia
ХИЛАРИ
КЛИНТОН
ВЧЕРА
Bo CKONJE
НАДЕЖ 3A
A
БЕГАЛЦИТЕ,
БЛАГОДАРНОСТ
3A МАКЕДОНИЈА
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VECER ARTICLE PAGE 2
Дојдов TyKa да им донесам
општите заложби 3a што
садор BO Скопје ce cpeTHa и
надеж Ha бегалците, да ги
поскорешно создавање успо-
CO претставници Ha македон-
видам нив, Ho и македон-
BN бегалците да ce BpaTaT BO
ските туманитарни и органи-
скиот народ и лично да и ce
своите домови. Taa посебно
зациите 3a човекови права,
заблагодарам Ha македон-
ce интересираше 3a условите
при што ja повтори информа-
cKaTa Влада и Ha народот 3a
3a снабдувањето CO xpaHa n
цијата дека претседателот
големиот ToBap и напор што
други продукти, сугерирајќи
Бил Клинтон предложил Be-
Γo направија 3a да ги прифа-
им Ha хуманитарците OCHO-
ликодушна помош 3a Make-
TaT бегалците.
вните набавки да in вршат од
донија и 3a другите земји од
OBa Γo изјави Хилар Клин-
македонските фирми. Ce
југоисточна Espona 3a no-
ToH, сопругата Ha амери-
интересираше и 3a школу-
лесно да ce справат CO бегал-
канскиот претседател Бил
вањето Ha бегалските деца.
cKaTa криза. Истакнато e
Клинтон, koja вчера престоју-
По посетата Ha кампот, при
дека американскиот KoHΓpec
ваше BO Скопје BO едноднев-
што срдечно разговараше CO
ce согласил пакетот хумани-
Ha хуманитарна мисија.
Првата дама Ha САД Bye-
payTpo допатува Ha скоп-
скиот аеродром CO амери-
кански BOOH транспортен
авион од ТИПОТ "Херкулес"
Koj слета под силно обезбе-
дување Ha воени хеликоп-
тери. OA Петровец, BO при-
дружба Ha сопругата Ha MaKe-
донскиот претседател Нада
Глигорова, високата гостинка
замина директно BO бегал-
скиот камп Стенковец, каде
што помина околу два часа.
Праите импресии 3a cocToj-
бата CO бегалците Хилари
Клинтон ГИ доби од прет-
ставниците Ha меѓународните
хуманитарни организации кои
работат BO Стенковец и кои и
ГИ пренесоа условите 3a
многумина бегалци интере-
TapHa и eKoHoMcKa помош да
живот Ha бегалците BO KaM-
сирајќи ce 3a нивните пробле-
износува близу една милијар-
повите и справувањето CO
ми, Хилари Клинтон изјави
да долари, a американската
нивните проблеми. Хилари
дека нејзиниот општ впеча.
амбасада BO Скопје ke биде
рече дека ocHoBHaTa цел Ha
ToK e оти бегалците HajMHoΓy
овластена да ги пренасочи
нејзиното даоѓање BO Скопје
caKaaT да ce BpaTaT дома. B o
праите 2 милиони од пакетот
e да ja повтори американска-
попладневните часови Хи-
вреден 21 милион долари
Ta и мегумародната поддр-
лари Клинтон BO резиденци-
наменети 3a македонското
шка KOH Македонија, KaKo и
jara Ha американскиот амба-
стопанство. Taa, исто TaKa,
соопшти дека САД досега
обезбедиле околу 184 мил-
иони долари хуманитарна
помош.
Хилари Клинтон, BO рези-
денцијата Ha американскиот
амбасадор, имаше средба и
CO премиерот Льубчо Георги-
евски и HeΓoBaTa conpyra, no
што македонскиот премиер
изрази задоволство од ca-
миот ЧИН Ha посетата, a пред
новинарите потврди дека
САД ke Й помогнат Ha Make-
донија, нагласувајќи: "Bepy-
BaM BO искреноста Ha нивните
зборови, и ce надовам дека
помошта ke стигне што побр-
30".
Гостинката од САД доцна
попладнето беше примена од
македонскиот претседател
Киро Глигоров и HeΓoBaTa
conpyra Нада Глигорова. Bo
TeKoT Ha вчерашниот ден Хи-
пари Клинтон ja посети и црк-
BaTa "Свети Cnac" BO Скопје,
каде што ce запиша BO книга.
Ta Ha посетителите, a доцна
попладмето Taa отпатува од
скопскиот аеродром.
Д.Илкова-Бошковик
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Copyright 1999 Newsweek
Newsweek
May 3, 1999, U.S. Edition
SECTION: NATION; Politics; Pg. 41
LENGTH: 837 words
HEADLINE: The Buzz About Bradley
BYLINE: By Howard Fineman
HIGHLIGHT:
Al Gore's only challenger scores points early--and forces the veep's team to
write a new game plan
BODY:
Al Gore's aides had arranged a picture-perfect setting for his big Earth Day
speech. He'd choppered up to the Blue Ridge Mountains' Skyline Drive. He looked
fit in his jeans and polo shirt, and posed for the cameras on a hilltop in the
sunshine overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Gore was there to announce a new
clean-air program, and the audience was filled with smiling schoolchildren and
local electeds. There was only one problem: swarms of ravenous flying bugs. The
vice president, like everyone else, swatted them furiously as he waited to
speak. So let me turn to the subject at hand, he said, before these gnats eat me
alive! And so it goes for the vice president: on top of the mountain, under
siege.
The gnats weren't nearly as annoying as the swarm Gore left behind in
Washington: the Bradley Buzz. The Gore camp is already burdened by
Clinton-scandal fatigue and the war in Kosovo; their attitude hovers between oh
please and let's panic in response to Bill Bradley, the veep's only challenger
for the Democratic nomination. Gore is now facing a lengthy ground war with a
shrewd Senate veteran who fled Washington two years ago to rejuvenate himself on
the road--and to make Silicon Valley contacts he's now mining for cash.
Never one to underestimate his own destiny, Bradley last week chose New
York's Cooper Union for his first major campaign speech, on the burdens of race
in America. At the same school, 139 years ago, another towering fellow reared in
the Midwest began his campaign with a speech on slavery: Abraham Lincoln. As a
Princeton All-American, Rhodes scholar and NBA Hall of Famer, Bradley has reason
to think he has a special destiny--and the new NEWSWEEK Poll gives him at least
some cause for hope. Though Bradley trails Gore 47 percent to 23 percent in the
Democratic race, the number is ominous for the vice president: he's below 50
percent.
How will Gore respond? Here, based on interviews with a score of FOAs
(Friends of Al's) are some clues to the new game plan:
Emote: As improbable as it sounds, Gore's handlers think their man can take
Bradley in a game of emotional one-on-one. Bradley behind a podium can make the
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veep seem like early James Brown. At Cooper Union, Bradley spoke in a mournful
monotone. He hadn't written a single applause line--and so he didn't get any.
Gore can be stone-cold stiff in public settings, too, but he can occasionally
crank it up. He did so, advisers recall fondly, in a speech at the Ebenezer
Baptist Church in Atlanta last year. He was scheduled to start last weekend: at
a memorial service in Littleton, Colo., and at the NAACP's Detroit convention.
Family matters: The son of a senator, Gore was born on the political stage,
and so were his four children. They expect to play prominent roles--and
will--and the first grandchild is due in June. Bradley, a deeply private man
when it comes to family life (the result of his years as a basketball star), is
loath to parade his wife and daughter in the campaign.
Deploy left: Bradley is hardly a flaming liberal. He voted for the Reagan
budget cuts in 1981. His 1986 reform plan trimmed income-tax rates for the
wealthy. He shied away from supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care plan
in 1994. Still, as the only challenger, Bradley stands to inherit any
grass-roots disaffection with the administration. And in the Democratic Party,
grass-roots activists are liberals. Last week Bradley was endorsed by Sen. Paul
Wellstone, a progressive who managed Jesse Jackson's Iowa campaign in 1988.
Gore's big idea for 2000 will center on education, aides say. It's a way to
compete for liberal votes (and win the crucial support of the teachers unions)
without seeming to stray too far left. He has and will talk about those who are
not participating in the Long Boom of the '90s. But much of the work of speaking
to--and about--the left out will be done by allies such as Rep. John Lewis of
Atlanta and HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo. Married to a daughter of Robert Kennedy,
Cuomo has been to rural poverty areas once visited by RFK. In a speech this
week, NEWSWEEK has learned, he will talk about a new liberalism for a new
Democratic Party--and tout Gore's ability to lead it.
Be patient: The media gnats are about to descend on Bradley, the Goreans
know. He has yet to broach specific proposals in a campaign he says will be
aimed at ending racism and poverty, and providing universal health care. It's
all way too ethereal, says Gore ally David Axelrod. He has to get down to
details, and when he does he starts losing votes. His crusade to clean up
campaign finance can make Gore sweat, but Bradley will have to answer for his
own avid fund-raising over the years. He hasn't released his 1998 tax return,
which--given honoraria and Wall Street consulting fees--isn't likely to burnish
his populist credentials. It's a long way from here to Iowa and New Hampshire.
Bradley peaked too soon, one top Gore aide said laughingly. But he didn't sound
like he was enjoying his own joke.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO: Going one-on-one: Gore faces a lengthy ground war with Bradley,
a shrewd Senate veteran
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