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NATIONAL JOURNAL'S
ongress
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1997
Personal
Alternative Resolution Hits Mexican Anti-Drug Failures
Claiming that "things are changing by the minute" and that
leaders would offer no softer sense of the Congress resolu-
Congress may not vote to overturn President Clinton's certi-
tion as an alternative.
fication that Mexico has done enough to fight the drug war,
House Ways and Means ranking member Charles
FOREIGN
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is
Rangel, D-N.Y., Tuesday said, "I don't see where there's any
AFFAIRS
circulating a sense of Congress resolution
backing off of the anti-Mexico feeling." Rangel added that
hitting Mexican enforcement failures - but taking no action.
while he plans to vote to sustain Clinton's position to certify
However, key House leaders Tuesday said there is no plan to
Mexico, he is "thoroughly frustrated" with the drug certifica-
substitute softer language for the resolution of disapproval of
tion process - - which he said he helped put in place. "It's not
Clinton's action that the House is scheduled to take up Thurs-
working at all," Rangel said. With the pending resolution of
day. "There are some members that had some concerns that
disapproval, Rangel said, "we're insulting Mexico instead of
wanted to soften it up," House Majority Whip DeLay said.
hurting them." Senate Majority Leader Lott told reporters
But he said the resolution of disapproval, as passed by the House
Tuesday that the issue will not come up in the Senate until next
International Relations Committee, "could very well" pass
week at the earliest and declined to say what form of resolu-
by a veto-proof margin of more than two-thirds of the House.
tion the Senate would consider "We re looking at what the
House Majority Leader Armey also predicted the commit-
House is doing,' he said.
tee-passed resolution "will pass" on Thursday and said GOP
A draft copy of Hutchison's resolution obtained by Congress-
Continued on Page 10
SCHEDULE
Newt Pushes 'Civility' Proposals
SENATE
House Speaker Gingrich Tuesday said he expects to approve "in the near fu-
Convenes at 9:30 a.m to consider the
ture" proposals designed to restore a measure of civility to the House. The rec-
nomination of Federico Pena to belenergy
ommendations are being prepared by sponsors of last weekend's bipartisan House
secretary, with 40minutes of debate. A
HOUSE
retreat, which was attended by 191 House members. "We
vote expected at 12:30 p.m. on the Pena
LEADERSHIP
had a tremendous number of good ideas," Gingrich told a
nomination, after which the Senate will
press conference held by the retreat's organizers. "I hope they're going to come
consider a resolution by Sen. Ernest
back to both parties and make recommendations. Both [Minority Leader] Gephardt
Hollings S.C. regarding campaign
and I have already indicated to a number of them that we will say yes." Among
nance Additional roll call votes are ex
the proposals receiving serious consideration are moving one-minute speeches to
pected
the end of the legislative day, and convening regular meetings of the two parties'
leaders and occasional joint sessions of the party conferences, said Rep. Ray La-
HOUSE
Hood, R-III., one of the chief organizers of the Hershey, Pa., retreat.
Convenes atall a.m: to consider resolu
"If we are going to have civil debate, we don't need to begin by trashing one
another," LaHood said. Members from both parties plan to meet Thursday to dis-
tion requesting the president to submita
cuss specific steps. "We are going to do our best to elevate the debate," said Rep.
balanced budget and H.R 852 Paperwork
David Skaggs of Colorado, the chief Democratic sponsor of the retreat. "We
Reduction Act Amendments
are trying to unpoison the well." Meanwhile, as Gingrich Tuesday was promot-
ing proposals to make the House more civil, the often-caustic speaker appeared
SENATE COMMITTEES
to be the model of civility himself. Suggesting that last weekend's retreat be made
APPROPRIATIONS.
an annual event, Gingrich said: "It reminded all of us first of all to act like
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EDWARD M. KENNEDY
MASSACHUSETTS
Evan
United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-2101
Margaret A. Williams
October 15, 1996
Chief of Staff to the First Lady
Old Executive Office Building
Room 100
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Ms. Williams:
Kim Lafferty, my supervisor in Senator Kennedy's office, suggested
that I send you a copy of my resume. I am interested in a staff position or
internship in your office.
Currently, I am working in a dual internship for Senator Edward
Kennedy and Senator Joe Lieberman. My responsibilities include
researching current issues, preparing briefings on various congressional
hearings, responding to constituent mailings and answering constituent's
calls.
Recently, I had the opportunity to work with the Commission on
Presidential Debates on a one week assignment through Senator
Lieberman's office. This opportunity was very interesting to me and
reinforced my interest in working in the Washington environment.
I am a recent graduate of New England College with a degree in
Business Administration. Throughout college I was involved with the
Student Senate, and last March I was selected to represent New England
College at the Cairo International Model United Nations.
As an intern for both Senator Joe Lieberman and Senator Kennedy I
have gained a strong understanding of how two different Senate offices
function successfully. Please feel free to contact me at Senator Kennedy's
office at 202/224-4543 or at home: 202/543-3473.
I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with you or your staff
for a personal interview.
Sincerely,
John Brian Summer
JohnBrianSumner
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John Brian Sumner
323 Maryland Avenue Apt #1
Washington DC 20002
(202)543-3473
Education:
May 1996
New England College, Henniker, NH
B.A. Degree in Business Administration
Graduated with 3.19 GPA (Last semester abroad)
January 1995
Winterim program, University of New Hampshire
(Three week exchange program studying Irish history,
politics and literature, in Maynooth, Ireland)
December 1994
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH A.S. in
Business Management
Work Experience:
Fall 1996
Internship, Office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Washington DC
Responded to constituents mailings, answered constituents
phone calls, assisted staff on research projects
Fall 1996
Internship, Office of Senator Joeseph Lieberman, Washington DC
Researched current issues, prepared briefings on various
congressional hearings, responded to constituents mailings and
answered constituents phone calls
Summer 1996
Clerk, Medaphis, Anesthesia Billing Company,
New Britain, CT
Prepared patients insurance and surgery information for billing,
filing and archiving
Spring 1996
Internship, Argo Eclipse Interactive Limited, Chichester ,West
Sussex, England.
Growing Internet provider. Hands on experience in sales,
customer service, strategic planning, advertising and marketing
Summer 1995
Assistant Manager, O'Brian Landscaping, East Granby, CT
Oversaw site development in absence of manager
Spring 1995
Group Manager, Organizational Behavior Course
Managed 5 -person student casework team, responsible for
directing group towards bi-weekly paper and presentation
Summer 1994
Entrepreneur, Rent -A- Student
Developed and managed landscaping business, earned revenues
of $2,000
Fall 1993
Housing Manager of Property, Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity
Motivated 45 active members for weekly activities &
maintenance
Activities:
Fall 1996
Volunteer, Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) Hartford, CT
- Runner, responsible for assisting media staff and CPD
staff for the full week
Spring 1996
Represenative, Model United Nations, Cairo, Egypt
- Represented New England College (NEC) during one week of
intensive United Nations simulation
Spring 1996
Member, Student Senate, NEC Arundel, England
- Appointed by faculty & staff
Spring 1996
Member Drama club, NEC Arundel, England
- volunteered for two acts in spring production
Fall 1995
Member, NEC, Arundel Committee, NEC Henniker, NH
- Appointed by Student Senate, 1 year term
Spring/Fall 1995
Chairman, The Blue Chip Association, NEC Henniker, NH
- Stocks and Bonds Investment Club
Spring 1995
Volunteer, Wings of the Dawn, NEC Henniker, NH
-Home for injured birds
Computer Skills:
Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus 123, Excel, Internet
Interests:
Skiing, Wind Surfing, Investing, Travel
References:
Available upon request
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Margaret A. Williams
Chief of Staff to the First Lady
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Room 100
Washington, DC 20500
10/01/96 at 02:17:00
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Gingrich Investigation Is No Double Jeopardy
To the Editor:
Valeo case. The judge declared that
Gay Hart Gaines's accusation of
to violate Federal election law, Go-
double jeopardy in the investigation
pac must have contributed money
of House Speaker Newt Gingrich
directly to Mr. Gingrich's campaign
(Op-Ed, Oct. 2) is absurd. An ethics
committee. He dismissed as irrele-
investigation is not a legal prosecu-
vant the proven fact that Gopac
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
tion, and the lack of a conviction is
spent money on behalf of Mr. Ging-
hardly proof that Mr. Gingrich and
rich's campaign.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1996
his political action committee, Go-
As I found in my research for a
pac, have done nothing wrong.
book on Mr. Gingrich, Gopac officials
Federal District Judge Louis Ober-
stressed in planning memos at the
dorfer's ruling against the Federal
time that "Newt must be re-elected."
Election Commission charges was
Gopac's executive director, Jeffrey
not a "vindication" of Mr. Gingrich
Eisenach, told donors that "to help
and Gopac, but a narrow ruling based
Newt" was "the most single high pri-
on a misreading of the Buckley V.
ority we've got in dollars."
The term "Newt support" comes
directly from Gopac's own staff
Calling D'Amato
members, who referred to the
$250,000 spent annually on Mr. Ging-
Ayatollah California
To the Editor:
rich's behalf. This nearly equaled the
Your report on how Senator Al-
amount spent on the campaign by
To the Editor:
fonse M. D'Amato wields vast power
Mr. Gingrich's opponent, who lost the
I was about to fire off a sarcastic
in Albany (front page, Sept. 30) did
race by only 974 votes.
dissent to Jonathan P. Berkey (letter,
not mention a special-interest group
How much investigation should
Oct. 3), who palliated the Taliban's
that he seems to hold at a distance:
Gopac and Mr. Gingrich be forced to
brutal application of Islamic codes in
his constituents in Manhattan.
take? As much as is necessary to
hold them accountable for violating
Afghanistan by comparison to "say,
Our block association, representing
the law.
JOHN K. WILSON
the Los Angeles Police Department's
1,600 people, Republicans, Democrats
Chicago, Oct. 2, 1996
application of California law."
and independents, has often reached
At least the L.A.P.D. does not drag
out to elected officials for help. Sena-
peaceable citizens out of their homes
tor D'Amato is the only one who does
To the Editor:
and beat them to death for victimless
not respond. Callers to his office are
Gay Hart Gaines's plaintive Oct. 2
crimes, I reasoned.
not permitted to speak with an aide.
article, "Double Jeopardy for Ging-
Then I read your news article of the
They are instructed to write letters,
rich," gives itself away in the first
same day on Dan Lungren, Califor-
but are not permitted to fax those
sentence: "How much investigation
nia's Attorney General, who closed
letters to the New York City office.
is one group and one man supposed to
down a cannibis buyers' club and is
Once sent, there is no response, save
take?'' Does the word "Whitewater"
now asking newspapers to censor the
perhaps a jejune form response half a
mean anything to her? A nonpartisan
"Doonesbury" comic strip for making
year later.
STANLEY BULBACH
call for an end to the rabid scandal-
light of his campaign against the med-
Chairman, 200 Block West 15th St.
mongering would have been more ef-
ical use of marijuana. A homegrown
Block Association
fective.
JILL HECHT
ayatollah!
HUGO S. CUNNINGHAM
New York, Oct. 3, 1996
Medford, Mass., Oct. 3, 1996
Boston, Oct. 3, 1996
Does Valujet Pay Enough Attention to Safety?
Keep on Trucking
To the Editor:
approach and necessary communi-
To the Editor:
"Reviving Valujet' (editorial,
cation.
In his zeal to advance his notions on
Sept. 30) provided an important con-
Valujet has suffered from the lack
how freight should be moved in the
clusion that the Federal Aviation Ad-
of the safety culture in its organiza-
United States, William Vandersteel
ministration's decision to allow the
tional system. Has it changed that
(letter, Sept. 25) engages in some
airline to reopen for business, over
much - established a true "safety
distortions about trucking.
the objections of its labor union, was
culture" - to warrant the F.A.A.'s
The trucking industry has an im-
based on "an unacceptably low
re-certification and public trust?
proving safety record. While the
standard."
Let's hope that the National Trans-
miles driv a by large trucks in-
You say that "the F.A.A. should
portation Safety Board answers
creased by more than 37 percent over
have grilled" Valujet's president on
these vital questions at its November
the last decade, the truck-involved
his response to safety lapses and
hearings on the May 11 Valujet acci-
fatality rate dropped by 34 percent.
accidents in the aftermath of the
dent.
NAJMEDIN MESHKATI
From 1994 to 1995, the number of
crash last spring in the Florida Ever-
Los Angeles, Oct. 2, 1996
fatalities from truck-related acci-
glades.
The writer is associate executive di-
dents fell by 241, while overall fatali-
Such reactive actions as grilling,
rector of the Institute of Safety and
ties on the highway rose by 1,122.
or even forcing out the president of a
Systems Management, University of
Our commitment to safety is sub-
company that lacks "safety cul-
Southern California
stantiated by our initiatives like a
ture," do not solve any safety-related
tenfold increase in roadside truck in-
problem. They only give a false sense
spections; our long support of the 55
of safety and security.
According to several studies, in-
NYT
mile-per-hour speed limit; research
and public outreach on driver fatigue;
cluding one by the General Account-
random, mandatory drug and alcohol
ing Office in 1990, safety culture is a
disciplined approach to operations
The New York Times
testing, and a nationwide ban on radar
detectors in trucks. We'll spend $6
by highly trained staff who are confi-
Company
billion over the next 10 years to put
dent but not complacent, follow good
229 West 43d St., N.Y. 10036-3959
anti-lock brakes in all trucks.
procedures and practice good team-
Commercial trucks generated 44
work and effective communication.
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER, Chairman
percent of Federal highway-user tax-
Safety culture is an insistence on a
Chief Executive Officer
es collected in 1994 but accounted for
sound technical basis for actions and
RUSSELL T. LEWIS, President
Chief Operating Officer
just 15 percent of total miles driven.
a rigorous assessment of problems.
DAVID L. GORHAM, Senior Vice President
With demands on the freight Indus-
Two general components of the
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
try growing and diversifying; truck-
safety culture are the necessary
DIANE P. BAKER, Senior Vice President
ing will - and should - continue to
framework within an organization
Chief Financial Officer
carry the lion's share of freight in
and the attitude of staff at all differ-
KATHARINE P. DARROW, Senior Vice President
the United States safely and effi-
ent levels. To achieve safety culture
LEONARD P. FORMAN, Senior Vice President
at technological companies, individ-
DONALD S. SCHNEIDER, Senior Vice President
ciently.
THOMAS J. DONOHUE
President and Chief Executive
ual employees must have a question-
LAURA J. CORWIN, Secretary
RICHARD G. THOMAS, Treasurer
American Trucking Associations
ing attitude, a rigorous and prudent
Alexandria, Va., Oct. 2, 1996
For the Good of All, Study Those Ancient Bones
To the Editor:
a. recent case in southeast Alaska,
The proposed reburial, without
studies of perhaps even older human
further study, of a 9,300-year-old
remains found in a cave are being
skeleton by the Umatilla Indian tribe
planned in consultation with the trib-
(news article, Sept. 30) highlights
al governments.
some of the challenges posed by the
The investigation of skeletal re-
Native American Graves Protection
mains is often a highly charged issue
and Repatriation Act. Although it
because differences between tra-
addresses Native American de-
ditional religious and scientific
mands for tribal control of ancestral
approaches, but other aspects of
remains, the law does not adequately
archeological study are often less
take into account the fact that genes,
contentious. Cooperation between
culture traits and language are not
tribes and archeologists is common,
inherited in neat tribal packages, but
and numerous tribes have cultural
spread, contract and change fairly
heritage programs that include ar-
independently over time.
cheology.
When human remains are many
A recent meeting of our group ex-
hundreds of years old, affiliation
plored ways to make archeological
with a specific present-day tribe
research more relevant to Native
may be extremely problematical.
David Suter
Americans and traditional knowledge
The law assigned the skeleton to the
more useful to archeology. The pa-
tribe in Washington State on whose
dress the interests that other tribes
pers, most by Native American schol-
aboriginal lands it was found, but
and the general public might have in
ars, will be published next spring, and
provided no way to consider the pos-
the early peopling of the Americas.
royalties will help pay for scholar-
sibility that this individual might be
The Society for American Archeol-
ships for Native American archeolo-
related to most other Western tribes,
ogy hopes that the tribe that has
gy students.
WILLIAM D. LIPE
or that It might represent a popula-
claimed the ancient Washington
President
tion that had died out. Nor did the law
skeleton will reconsider and permit
Society for American Archeology
provide for scientific studies to ad-
additional studies to be conducted. In
Washington, Oct. 2, 1996
Don't Come to America Looking for a Handout
School of Americas
To the Editor:
and religious and civic organizations
Must Answer for Past
Re "Immigrants" Burden" (Op-
and then, only as a last resort, from
Ed, Oct. 2): George Soros may have
the government.
To the Editor:
had his broken leg set for free in
The first thing an immigrant
Re "School of the Dictators" (edi-
England after World War II, but had
should read after arriving on these
torial, Sept. 28) For a documentary
he been treated in the United States
shores is the help-wanted section of
now being completed, I spoke with
- where he eventually made his
the newspaper, not an application for
people from three Latin American
millions - he would have had to
food stamps.
WILSON GRABILL
countries who all link torture train-
borrow money from a friend or per-
Princeton, N.J., Oct. 2, 1996
ing to the United States Army's
haps a local Hungarian-American
School of the Americas. Two were
group to pay the bill, or work it off.
trainees. The third, after his wife had
The point that seems to elude him
Immigrant Loans
been killed by a school-trained tor-
and other liberals is that we cannot
To the Editor:
turer, found one of the torture train-
have it both ways in this country. We
George Soros (Op-Ed, Oct. 2)
ing manuals the Pentagon now ad-
cannot be an, entrepreneurial, dy-
makes a bold case for dignifying the
mits was used by the school.
namic nation of risk-takers and at
plight of legal immigrants by setting
One former trainee talked about
the same time expect our govern-
up the Emma Lazarus Fund. Is he
homeless people used by the school
ment to pick up the pieces every time
willing to fulfill his own pledge of
to demonstrate torture. He said a
we stumble or fail. There was a time
allegiance by endorsing, in the spirit
physician instructor showed stu-
when immigrants came to this coun-
of capitalism, the concept of an inter-
dents where and how to torture, and
try with expectations of freedom and
state "co-op" bank? What we legal
injected the blindfolded human
opportunity, and that was all. Now
immigrants need in the short run is
guinea pl with powerful drugs to
too many come with the promise of a
a welfare-size cash grant that ac-
keep them alive after the torture.
government handout.
crues interest much like the student
The Pentagon says the torture
No one denies that immigrants OC-
loan of a typical American college
manuals were withdrawn in 1991, but
casionally need a helping hand, but
graduate.
ALEX PEDRAM
does not mention this was seven
let it come first from friends, family
Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 3, 1996
years after the school had relocated
from Panama to Fort Benning, Ga.
The Under Secretary of the Army,
who does not condone these manuals,
told me that "the school is responsi-
ble for its curriculum."
Now that it is clear the curriculum
included execution, torture and
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
blackmail, questions must be raised:
Who authorized this instruction, who
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1996
taught it, what laws were violated?
The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a spokes-
man for the grass-roots School of the
Americas Watch, is in a Federal
prison because he and 12 others sym-
bolically re-enacted the 1989 murder
of six Jesuit priests on the grounds of
the school where the murderers had
been trained. In El Salvador, the
actual murderers received amnes-
ty.
ROBERT RICHTER
New York, Sept. 30, 1996
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KATHARINE GRAHAM
Chairman of the Executive Committee
September 27, 1996
Dear Hillary,
I can't thank you enough for the beautiful breakfast you gave for the Nina Hyde
Breast Cancer Research Center. You gave pleasure to everyone there. Many, if not most
of them, had never been to The White House before and were thrilled. It increased the
visibility of the benefit greatly.
I realize that you took great trouble to give this event and that you had to wedge it
in before you left for your campaign commitment in Connecticut. I knew you were
leaving. So did Princess Diana, who had moved up her arrival a day to be there. After
your departure, we simply moved over a little and it was not a problem.
To receive 120 people for a seated breakfast is a great effort. It was very much
appreciated.
Affectionately,
Key
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
BUCKLEY, From C1
of the example he set for young pe
as a candidate in 1992. He said Do
bounced from the possibility of public
comments about past drug use by
service," Buckley, 39, said yesterday.
some White House aides have beer.
He declined to confirm or deny past
limited to questioning the administra-
drug use, saying that this "absurd ob-
tion's security procedures.
session" was no longer "relevant" and
Describing himself as "angry" about
that he fully supports Dole's campaign
"a bad journalistic practice," Buckley
against teenage drug use.
said those who used drugs 20 years
In a political world in which Presi-
ago "should not be subject to this sort
dent Clinton, Vice President Gore,
of idiocy.
The good news is that
White House spokesman Mike
most news organizations didn't take
McCurry, House Speaker Newt Gin-
the bait."
grich and Rep. Susan Molinari have
Buckley is on leave from his job as
admitted trying pot in their youth-
along with millions of middle-aged pol-
senior vice president at Fannie Mae. A
icymakers, journalists and other
nephew of William F. Buckley, he has
The Boomers
Americans-the question is obvious:
worked for the SoHo Weekly News
Why is this news?
and written music reviews for Rolling
The story traveled a circuitous
Stone and the Village Voice.
Acid Test
route. The producer who did the piece
The Phoenix piece quoted five for-
for Channel 7 is a former classmate of
mer classmates-only one of whom al-
Buckley's who initially called to warn
lowed his name to be used-as saying
him about the Phoenix inquiry. WJLA
that Buckley used marijuana socially at
Dole Aide Decries Stories
led its Friday newscast with the re-
Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.,
port and the next day asked people on
before graduating in 1979. Two of the
On Past Marijuana Use
the street what they thought of the
unnamed classmates alleged that Buck-
controversy. (Most didn't care.)
ley sold small amounts to friends.
The story achieved new visibility
"Sure he smoked pot, but that's not
By Howard Kurtz
Sunday when the Hartford Courant
a big deal," Ed Benfey, who lived in the
Washington Post Staff Writer
led a front-page interview with Dole
same building, was quoted as saying.
by quoting the Republican nominee as
"John was like everyone else."
Six years ago, John Buckley wrote a
dismissing the reports about Buckley.
WJLA began its story this way: "To-
novel in which a White House speechwrit-
"I don't think it has any relevance at
night, a top Dole adviser stands ac-
er is blackmailed by a former roommate
all," Dole said. Still, Buckley decided
cused of being a former drug user. Jim
over having sold small amounts of marijua-
to skip the presidential debate in Hart-
Clarke has this News Seven exclusive
na while in college.
ford that day to avoid becoming a dis-
report on drugs and the Dole cam-
"I'm part of a generation that can be
traction.
paign."
blackmailed for having done something
The Sept. 26 article in the Phoenix,
Clarke said that Dole "has made pri-
that was a natural part of being an adoles-
an alternative weekly, said that since
or drug use a fitness test disqualifying
cent in the 1960s and '70s," the protago-
folks from serving in important govern-
nist says in describing the resulting media
ment positions, especially White House
witch hunt.
"The good news is
staff positions." Dole Press Secretary
Now, as communications director for
Nelson Warfield said that is "not accu-
Bob Dole's campaign, Buckley is suddenly
that most news
rate," noting that Dole has questioned
living his fictional nightmare. Reports in
only recent drug use by White House
the Boston Phoenix and on WJLA-TV
organizations didn t
aides and "never wavered in his sup-
here, charging Buckley with having used
and sold marijuana at Hampshire College
port for Susan Molinari as the Republi-
in the late 1970s, mushroomed into front-
take the bait.'
can convention keynote speaker after
page news last weekend and forced him in-
she acknowledged making a mistake
-John Buckley
to damage-control mode.
with marijuana while in college."
"It's illegitimate to say that a generation
Buckley assailed WJLA producer
Buckley "is one of the top aides craft-
who had different standards should be
Roger Mellen for first calling him as a
ing the candidate's anti-drug mes-
Hampshire College alumnus to say he
See BUCKLEY, C2, Col. 1
sage," his own past behavior is fair
had been contacted by a Phoenix re-
game.
porter digging into Buckley's past.
"I certainly don't think that using
Mellen later called back to say he was
marijuana should be an issue in the cam-
doing the story himself and wanted an
paign, and that was precisely my point,"
on-camera interview.
said Phoenix reporter Gareth Cook, who
"I thought it was despicable for
says even current marijuana use should
someone to play a double role," Buck-
be regarded less harshly than harder
ley said, "first as an early warning sys-
The Washington Post
drugs such as cocaine. "What I was try-
tem that someone's going to do a
ing to say with the story is that there's a
sleaze piece on you and then turning
real hypocrisy here."
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1996
around a week later and saying, 'Hey,
Gary Wordlaw, WJLA's vice presi-
I'm going to be an investigative jour-
dent for news, said: "The Dole camp
nalist.' Mellen did not respond to a
opened this door about drug use by the
other side of the campaign.
Mr.
request for comment.
Dole made it an issue in relation to Mr.
Once the story was trumpeted by a
Clinton. He made comments about
Washington television station, others
staff members at the White House who
jumped in. Reuter reported that the
were using drugs in the past. We felt
Dole campaign "was rocked by allega-
then and feel now that becomes the
tions" about Buckley's marijuana use.
subject of a news story."
United Press International carried a
Buckley disputed such reasoning,
similar story, which was published in
saying Dole has never criticized past
the Washington Times, as did the
drug use by baby boomers and has as-
Houston Chronicle.
sured him his job is not in jeopardy.
Opening his novel "Statute of Limi-
"Other than salaciousness and doing a
tations" to a passage about an out-of-
hit on someone in politics, there's no
control media, Buckley said he wrote
reason to do a story on this connected
the book because he feels strongly
to Dole," he said.
about what it calls "pharmacological
Buckley said Dole's television ad
McCarthyism." At the same time, he
mocking an MTV appearance in which
said, "we've learned a lot of lessons
Clinton joked about not inhaling mari-
since the 1960s. I personally have
juana as a student was not a criticism
known people who have lost years of
of the president's youthful behavior but
their lives to drug use."
The Reliable Source
By Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer
There are few views as
gig, which celebrates the publication
breathtaking and romantic as the
of the NCNW's first book, with
District from the top of the Capitol
contributing authors Julianne
Dome. And that's where Tony Rudy,
Malveaux and Marian Wright
press secretary for Rep. Tom
Edelman, is the first in a three-day
DeLay (R-Tex.), popped the
schedule of events. Gladys Knight
question Monday to Lisa Watson,
will also be at the Willard, but we
legislative assistant to Rep. Dana
were told she's not planning to sing.
Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). The duo
And tomorrow, Maya Angelou will
were up there on the sort of tour not
perform with Ashford and Simpson
available to your average visiting
at a black-tie gala benefit to launch
4-H Club. Access through the little
FILE PHOTOS
the Dorothy I. Height Leadership
door that leads outside is controlled
Institute.
by the Capitol Architect's office, and
Artists Christo and his wife,
the tours are restricted to Senate
Jeanne-Claude, say that their next
and House members and their staff.
art project will be to cover the
And yes, Watson accepted.
Arkansas River and to erect tall
They'll marry sometime next year.
The Washington Post
gates in New York's Central Park.
Former Smashing Pumpkins
At a presentation in Hamburg,
drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, who
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1996
Germany, Monday, the pair said that
was canned by the rest of the group
"Over the River" would involve
after keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin
covering the Arkansas River with up
died of a drug overdose, pleaded
to six miles of fabric, Reuter
guilty yesterday to disorderly
reported.
conduct. Chamberlin was arrested in
Michael Jackson performed for
July and charged with a
the first time on the African
misdemeanor drug possession after
continent Monday night,
Melvoin died at New York's
entertaining more than 60,000 fans
Regency Hotel shortly after the two
in the North African city of Tunis on
had injected heroin.
his world tour HIStory II, Reuter
Chamberlin pleaded guilty to the
reduced charge before New York
reported.
"I love you all," Jackson shouted,
Criminal Court Judge Donna Recant
as part of a deal in which he will
sparking hysteria among the densely
undergo drug treatment, the
packed crowd. A dozen or so fainted.
Associated Press reported.
Labor Secretary Robert Reich will
join Dorothy Height and the
Knight, top, visiting; Christo,
National Council of Negro Women
heading for the river; Jackson,
tonight at the Willard Hotel. The
REUTER
whipping up a frenzy in Tunis.
No
He'd Love to Come, But
Stone
Washington-based British journalist Martin Walker
THE
has just published a book about President Clinton as the
Turns Up
ultimate meritocrat: "Bubba with brains, a redneck with a
Rhodes scholarship" is the dust jacket description of
PRESIDENT
Walker's old Oxford chum and baby boom leader of the
on't look for Sharon Stone
Free World.
D
at any of the events
Last night's revelers who jammed the Ritz-Carlton
WE
connected with the weekend
Hotel to toast "The President We Deserve: Bill Clinton:
display of the AIDS memorial quilt on
His Rise, Falls and Comebacks" were either to the
the Mall.
manner born (a tony foreign ambassador or two) or to the
DESERVE
She never planned to be here, de-
manner acquired (scads of lawyers, political operatives
spite publicity to the contrary, says
and journalists).
no less an AIDS activist than Eliza-
Walker's wife, writer Julia Watson, handed out
beth Taylor, who will be here and
red-and-white bumper stickers for the guests' Volvos,
who issued her own piece of advice:
Lexi and Jags.
Don't try to gin up a battle of the
The subject of all this ink was invited but did not attend.
AIDS divas between Stone and La Liz.
"He's resting tonight," a White House spokesman said.
Let's take this one admonition at a
time.
The sultry Stone is a tad sensitive
to any suggestions she's a no-show
after she skipped a 1995 breast can-
cer fund-raiser here.
"Last week Sharon had something
to do abroad and she missed an
[AIDS] event and some people got their knickers in
Clinic spokesman James Millner said yesterday
a twist," said Taylor, founder of the American Foun-
that Whitman-Walker "was told that she was com-
dation for AIDS Research, for which Stone is fund-
ing. We didn't list anyone who was just lending their
raising chairman.
name in support and not appearing. We in no way
Although the Whitman-Walker Clinic here-one
meant to mislead anyone and we regret any incon-
of four sponsors of Saturday night's candlelight
venience to anyone."
march, which Taylor will lead-lists Stone among
Taylor, by phone from Dallas, insisted there is
22 visiting stars, Taylor told The Source yesterday
room aplenty for a roomful of stars to fight AIDS.
that "Sharon never said she would go. She never
"We are both working our [tushes] off to do as much
said she was not going. She never committed to
as we can for AIDS.
"It's not a thing of ego. It's
Whitman-Walker."
an issue of getting things done."
File
Personals
Or take a commentary by Donald Straszheim,
chief economist for Merrill Lynch, on inflation.
Robert J. Samuelson
Clinton is a no-show here, too. Straszheim cites a
number of reasons to explain why inflation has
remained tame, including: the commitment of the
Feats
Federal Reserve to contain it; "globalization
stimulating worldwide competition and the pur-
suit of the lowest cost production"; "technology
Of Fiction
advances improving efficiency [and] allowing
lower prices"; and corporate "cost cutting and
restructuring."
Clinton's claim to have engineered the re-
'For good or ill,
covery rests on the alleged effect of his 1993
budget plan. It supposedly lowered interest rates.
Clinton has had little effect
The claim is accepted by many political report-
ers. In a recent op-ed column [Oct. 2], David
on the economy.'
Broder wrote that the deficit-reduction plan was
"credible enough
to allow the Federal Re-
The great fiction of this election is that the
serve Board, under Republican Alan Greenspain,
president is responsible for the economy, deserv-
to ratchet down interest rates and produce the
ing credit for its successes and blame for its
remarkably healthy economy that is sustaining
failures. The fiction was on display at the first
Clinton's reelection bid."
presidential debate, when President Clinton ex-
This sounds plausible, but Broder's facts and
tolled the 10 million jobs created since 1992 and
Clinton's argument are demonstrably wrong.
Dole criticized the economy's growth as too slow.
When Congress passed the budget plan in August
Although statistics can be produced to "prove"
1993, the Fed Funds rate-an overnight lending
each claim, the larger truth is that-for good or
rate controlled by the Federal Reserve-was 3
ill-Clinton has had little effect on the economy.
percent. It had been there since Sept. 4, 1992.
It would have behaved the same if Clinton's cat,
The next change occurred on Feb. 4, 1994, when
Socks, had been president.
the Fed raised the rate to 3.25 percent. The
Presidents sometimes can affect the economy,
increase was the first in a series that lifted it to 6
but their influence is usually indirect, unintended
percent by early 1995. Long-term interest rates
or long-term. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
(not controlled by the Fed) behaved similarly. In
adopted activist Keynesian economic policies to
1993 they had drifted down; that continued after
create permanent "full employment"; the unin-
enactment of the budget plan. Then they drifted
tended effect was double-digit inflation generated
up. In 1993 rates on 30-year Treasury bonds
by easy-money policies at the Federal Reserve:
averaged 6.59 percent. In 1994 they averaged
Richard Nixon imposed wage-price controls in
7.37 percent.
1971 to enhance his reelection prospects; when
The point is that interest rates aren't me-
controls were lifted, inflation exploded and trig-
chanically determined by budget deficits. For the
gered the steep 1973-75 recession. Ronald Rea-
moment, other influences (inflationary expecta-
gan abided the Federal Reserve's harsh assault
tions, the state of the business cycle) count for
on inflation (13.5 percent in 1980) that raised
more. Mostly, Clinton's been lucky. He first ran
ChelVashington Post
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1996
unemployment to almost 11 percent in late 1982.
in 1992 when the economy was near the low-
But presidents are mainly economic specta-
point of the business cycle-and people were
tors. Our $7.5 trillion economy is too huge and
feeling sour. Now the economy may be near the
complicated forthem to steer in any meaningful
business cycle peak-and people are feeling
sense. Its performance mostly reflects the pri-
much better.
vate decisions of companies, workers and con-
Dole might have rebutted Clinton's claims by
sumers. They respond to many influences: new
saying just that. Instead, be unwittingly strength-
technologies, shifting tastes, investor pressures
ened Clinton's case by embracing its basic as-
for profits, new competition, manager compe-
sumption: that the president makes the economy.
tence or ineptness, workers' skills and motiva-
Dole then unsuccessfully argued that the econo-
tion. Government policies (taxes, regulations) are
my is in lousy shape. It's true, as be says, the
only one set of influences, over which presidents'
economy's growth has been slow by postwar
control is usually modest or nonexistent.
standards. But one possible explanation is that
The present economic expansion is now in its
the official statistics may understate economic
67th month. This exceeds the average post-
growth by underestimating productivity.
World War II expansion (50 months) but is less
The size and intrusiveness of government are
than the expansions of the 1960s (106 months)
issues worth debating for both political and eco-
and of the 1980s (92 months). The distinction of
nomic reasons. Dole may be correct that lower
this expansion is the failure (so far) of inflation to
taxes, less regulation and less litigation would
rise. When private economists analyze these
improve the economy's growth rate. But the
trends, they rarely mention Clinton.
probable effect is relatively small (say 0.1 percent
Consider a report by William Dudley, chief
to 0.3 percent of GDP annually) and would almost
economist for the investment banking firm of
certainly occur after a first or even a second Dole:
Goldman Sachs. He attributed the recovery's
term. The effects of smaller or larger govern-
durability to four factors: (a) Companies are
ment-for good or ill-are mostly long-term in
determined not to let their work forces or
nature.
inventories become bloated-problems that in
The pretense that presidents can manipulate
the past have triggered recessions; (b) housing
economic growth is a political expedient that,
now has better access to credit than in the past,
though understandable, ultimately feeds distrust
making construction patterns more stable; (c)
of government. It stirs discontents that govern-
global markets provide new sources of demand
ment cannot easily erase and fosters expectations
and more price competition; and (d) businesses
that it cannot readily fulfill. It creates an artificial
can increase capacity more quickly, blunting
debate that detracts from other issues-political
inflation.
philosophy, personal competence and charac-
ter-that matter in a president. A worthy cam-
paign would have discarded the fiction; this one
hasn't.
The recession of the early 1980s hit just as we.
were making most poor mothers with earnings
ineligible for Aid for Families with Dependent
Wendell E. Primus
Children (AFDC), subjecting more low-income
working families to taxes, cutting food stamps,
removing individuals from disability rolls and
The Safety
letting AFDC benefits erode sharply in purchas-
ing power. By the recession of the early 1990s,
things had changed-Congress and the White
House had acted on a bipartisan basis to expand
Net: It
the EITC substantially, restore food stamp bene-
fit cuts, enable more disabled children to enter
the Supplemental Security Income program and
extend AFDC to more two-parent families. In
Works
addition, some states had secured waivers en-
abling more low-income working parents to re-
ceive AFDC. Further major improvements were
Considering the level of rhetorical abuse and
made in 1993 in both the EITC and food stamps.
conflicting public information about our prior
The link between the strength of the safety
welfare laws, it is no wonder many Americans
net and poverty among children is especially
assume our safety net government programs are
strong. The number of children removed from
a failure, creating dependency and producing
poverty by government benefit programs doubled
poverty. Contrary to the prevailing political wis-
between 1983 and 1995. Not coincidentally,
dom, poverty figures the Census Bureau issued
federal expenditures for children increased by 50
last month show that government welfare pro-
percent on a real per capita basis during the same
grams do work. The figures show that both the
period. It is no mystery why the safety net is now
number and the percentage of individuals re-
lifting more children out of poverty than ever
moved from poverty by safety net programs
before.
reached an all-time high in 1995.
Also of interest is the fact that most of the
These census data show that without gov-
children the safety net now removes from pover-
ernment programs, 57.6 million people would
ty are children in working families. Their fami-
have been poor last year, but when government
lies' low wages are supplemented by various
benefits are counted-inchading food stamps,
safety net benefits.
Furthermore, a strengthened safety net ap-
pears to have contributed as much or more to the
"Poverty figures the
low poverty rates in 1995 as the strengthening of
the economy. Compare 1989, the peak year of
Census Bureau issued
the economic recovery of the 1980s, to 1995. In
1989, some 20 percent of Americans were poor
last month show that
before receipt of government benefits. In 1995,
some 22 percent-a larger number-were poor
before government benefits. In other words, the
government welfare
economy, by itself, lifted fewer people out of
poverty last year-and also fewer children—
programs do work."
than it did in 1989. After government benefits
are factored, however, the poverty rates both for
housing, school lunch and earned-income tax
the overall population and for children were
credit (ETTC) benefits-the number of poor
lower last year than in 1989. A stronger safety
people plummets to 30.3 million. In other words,
net made the difference.
the safety net-programs lifted 27 million people
Today, few elected officials are willing to
out of poverty.
defend the U.S. social welfare system. Yet the
In addition, most of those who remain poor are
hard fact is that the safety net lifts millions of
significantly less so than they would have been
children, elderly people and others out of pover-
without the safety net. The census data show
ty. Yes, poverty remains much too high, particu-
that safety net programs reduced the depth of
larly among minority children. And yes, our
poverty by 70 percent.
current welfare system has badly needed reform-
To be sure, we cannot determine exactly how
ing. But the welfare system did not merit the
individuals and institutions would have acted if
shredding it will receive as a result of enactment
Social Security and means-tested programs did
of the new welfare law.
not exist. But the conclusion that emerges from
Years from now, we are likely to look back at
these data is inescapable-when the safety net is
1995 and 1996 as the time when our child safety
strengthened, poverty is reduced, and when the
net was strongest. Only in the world of campaign
safety net weakens, poverty is increased.
rhetoric can one ignore the evidence cited here
Consider what happened in the last two reces-
and conclude that cutting federal safety net
sions. During both the recession of the early
expenditures by $54 billion over the next six
1980s and the downturn of the early 1990s, the
years (and allowing the states to withdraw anoth-
number of people who were poor before receipt
er $40 billion), as the new welfare law does, will
of government benefits climbed by 10 million to
improve rather than weaken the safety net.
11 million people. When benefits and taxes are
When the next recession hits and federal funds
taken into account, the number of poor people
fail to expand automatically to meet rising need
still grew by 11 million during the recession of
because welfare is now a block grant, these
the early 1980s; some people were lifted out of
problems will intensify. Let us hope that by that
poverty by government benefits, but others were
time, the White House and Congress have ended
pushed into poverty by the taxes they paid. But in
the politicization-and scapegoating-of poor
contrast, during the recession of the early 1990s,
families and have acted in a bipartisan manner to
the number of poor people grew only 5.5 mil-
repair the damage to a safety net that, for all its
lion-half as much-when benefits and taxes are
flaws, has accomplished a great deal.
taken into account. Why? Because the safety net
was much stronger.
The writer resigned in August from his job
as deputy assistant secretary for human
services policy in the Department of Health
and Human Services.
ChelVashington Post
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1996
File Personal-
dges Hand Blacks
sentences, even when you have an
apples compared to apples and
Longer Prison Times
oranges to oranges. Whites are
given the least restrictive
alternatives to prison. There may
be logical explanations of this. We
District Has Wider Than Average Discrepancy
don't know why."
For its analysis, The Post used a
conservative approach: eliminating
By Mary Pat Flaherty
cases in which special
and William Casey
circumstances drastically skewed
Washington Post Staff Writers
prison terms-including
defendants who got leniency in
N
0 one knows why and no
exchange for becoming
one has studied the issue
government informants and those
head on, but black
involved in crimes covered by the
defendants continue to receive
slightly longer federal prison
mandatory minimum laws.
That left about 43,000 cases
sentences under a system that was
supposed to do away with racial
that by the definition of the federal
disparity.
guidelines were similar: where
The difference amounts to a few
both the white defendant's and
extra days on lesser sentences and
black defendant's criminal record
a few weeks extra time on
and current crime left them facing
multi-year sentences, according to
the same sentencing options. For
a Washington Post analysis of
example, if a defendant faced
79,000 federal sentences handed
between 30 months and 37 months
down during the 1994 and 1995
under the sentencing rules and he
fiscal years.
got a sentence within that span, he
The analysis lends credence to a
was included in the analysis.
widely held perception among
Even under that purest
black Americans that they fare
application of the sentencing rules,
worse than whites under the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
however, black defendants wound
federal criminal justice system. But
OPTIMISTIC: Judge
up getting sentenced to the higher
some experts said the slim
William W. Wilkins Jr. says
end of the span than whites. That
nationwide racial discrepancy is
the best that could be hoped for in
average sentencing disparity
means they received roughly four
days more on punishments for the
courts that deal with about 40,000
is within tolerable range.
mildest crimes, about a week
defendants a year.
Nationally, blacks got about 2
longer on mid-level crimes and six
disparities in crack cocaine cases
percent longer jail terms than
erupted last year into a series of
weeks more jail time on the most
whites, the Post analysis shows.
riots in federal prisons across the
serious crimes.
But the difference was greater in
country.
To Holder, who chairs a
some regions, including the
But the gap also surfaces in
recently appointed task force on
District of Columbia where blacks
sentences set under the U.S.
racial disparity for the Justice
got sentences longer by 12 percent
Sentencing Guidelines. The rules
Department, the national
in 1994 and 9 percent in 1995.
cover most federal crimes and
difference revealed in the Post
The disparity between blacks
were promoted by Congress and
analysis is troubling. "It's
and whites in Maryland matched
the commission as a finely
stereotypical and gives me concern
the national figure in 1994 but rose
calibrated system that would use
because it's yet another example of
to 10 percent in 1995. In eastern
complex regulations and a
where black people aren't treated
Virginia, blacks got longer
mathematical formula to flatten
in an equitable way. The
sentences than whites by about 5
out any personal biases that
percent in 1994 and 7 percent in
surfaced in sentencing.
distinction is small, but the
1995.
Fourth Circuit Judge William W.
important question is why is that
At the U.S. Sentencing
Wilkins Jr., who oversaw the
there?"
Commission, which administers
writing of the sentencing rules as
Nationally there was no gap
the guidelines, officials said they
the head of the first U.S.
between the sentences given
could offer no explanation for the
Sentencing Commission, said the
Hispanics and white defendants
sentencing gap between similarly
relatively low difference between
last year, and a 2 percent gap in
situated black and white
sentences of black and white
1994.
defendants. The commission,
defendants is encouraging. "I'd say
It's not only racial disparity that
which is supposed to monitor the
it shows the system is working. I'm
surfaces in the sentencing
impact of its sentencing process,
not saying that's perfect but once
statistics. Women nationally got
has yet to independently study
you get disparity within a tolerable
sentences lighter by about 10
racial disparities that have been a
range you have to accept some of
percent each year than similarly
growing source of concern in
that," Wilkins said in an interview.
situated men, The Post's analysis
minority communities.
But the number is less comforting
showed.
Presented with the results of the
to Wilkins's successor, Judge
Regionally, the gap between
Post's study of sentencing in the
Richard P. Conaboy, the
men and women in 1994 was
District, U.S. Attorney Eric H.
commission chairman since 1994.
smaller with women getting six
Holder Jr. said, "I can't explain it. I
"What does that 2 percent say? I
percent less prison time in the
have no idea. Zero. But the task for
don't know what the right answer
us is to determine if that disparity
District and 2 percent less in
to that question is. If we get it
eastern Virginia.
does exist here, why it exists. Any
down to 2 percent disparity, is that
instance would be troubling."
In Maryland, women got
the best we can do? It may be that
ewashington Post
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1996
Racial disparities are greatest
sentences that were longer by 2
there are going to continue to be
under mandatory minimum
percent.
some disparities," Conaboy said in
laws-the patchwork of bills
a recent interview.
passed by Congress that set
More troubled by the numbers
blanket, nonnegotiable penalties
was Wayne Budd, the
for select crimes that are
commission's only African
considered a particular danger to
American member, who said the
the community, mostly involving
agency should be taking a harder
weapons and drugs such as crack
look at disparities. "Overall, people
cocaine. Controversy over racial
of color seem to receive higher
HUD Awards Public Housing Fund
$716 Million Granted for Demolition, Construction and Relocation
By Vernon Loeb
molition as a tool for fighting urban
million; Washington, $25 million;
Washington Post Staff Writer
blight.
Charlotte, $24.5 million; Louisville,
While Congress recently failed to
$23 million; and New York, $21.9 mil-
Housing and Urban Development
enact a major revision of the country's
lion.
Secretary Henry Cisneros yesterday
public housing laws that would have
D.C. housing officials said the city's
awarded $716 million in grants to 74
made this and other temporary regu-
grant consists of three segments:
communities nationwide for demoli-
latory measures permanent, Cisneros
$16.7 million for 713 rent-subsidy
tion of substandard public housing,
said HUD would continue trying to
certificates under the so-called Sec-
new construction and rental assis-
make its regulations as flexible as pos-
tion 8 program, $6.3 million for 258
tance for displaced families.
sible.
Section 8 relocation vouchers and $2
Two-thirds of grant awards-$477
Along with an end to one-for-one
million for partial demolition at two
million-will go to housing authorities
replacement, Cisneros said, new HUD
developments in Southeast Washing-
through a program Cisneros said is
regulations would continue to provide
ton, Fort Dupont Addition and Stod-
transforming public housing by en-
local housing officials greater latitude
dart Terrace.
couraging local officials to demolish
in spending capital funds and design-
David I. Gilmore, the District's
vacant units and replace them with
ing new developments aimed at at-
public housing receiver, said the D.C.
less dense, mixed-income develop-
tracting working families. HUD will
Housing Authority has taken full ad-
ments.
also continue encouraging local offi-
vantage of HUD's new regulatory
The other $239 million, Cisneros
cials to adopt stricter admissions poli-
flexibility in devising redevelopment
said, will go to fund rental assistance
cies and hire private managers to run
plans at Fort Dupont and Stoddart.
so that 15,000 families displaced by
public housing.
Fort Dupont will be reconfigured as
demolition can rent apartments in the
The grants awarded yesterday, Cis-
a mixed-income neighborhood in part-
private housing market. A total of
neros said, "will allow us to continue
nership with current residents and a
22,100 public housing units have been
transforming public housing develop-
private housing developer still to be
demolished under President Clinton,
ments from isolated ghettos of pover-
selected, he said. Stoddart will be ren-
with 17,000 more slated for demoli-
ty, crime and despair into neighbor-
ovated with federal subsidies, he said,
tion with funding awarded yesterday.
hoods of hope and opportunity."
after families remaining there are re-
HUD estimates that 100,000 substan-
Chicago, which is working toward
located to private apartments through
dard units will be demolished by 2000.
turning 35 percent of its develop-
the use of Section 8 vouchers.
HUD's emphasis on demolition
ments over to private managers, was
Cisneros said HUD will award an-
comes after Cisneros and congression-
awarded $122 million yesterday, by
other $550 million in grants in May.
al Republicans crafted legislation last
far the largest grant received by cities
The funds were approved by Con-
year waiving prior HUD regulations
nationally. Chicago was followed by
gress last month. Last week, HUD
that mandated one-for-one replace-
Atlanta, $45.8 million; Pittsburgh,
awarded $259 million in grants to 650
ment to demolish public housing-a
$45.1 million; Detroit, $34.2 million;
communities as part of separate pro-
prohibitively expensive requirement
New Orleans, $32.2 million; Cleve-
gram to fight crime, drugs and gangs
that effectively blocked the use of de-
land, $29.7 million; Baltimore, $25.8
in public housing.
How the Court Files Were Analyzed
"By William Casey
race, gender and ethnic background. The Post used a
Washington Post Staff Writer
conservative approach, eliminating any case
involving judicial departures or mandatory minimum
T
he Washington Post's analysis of federal
sentences. The remaining cases, sentenced by the
sentencing guídelines used computer tapes to
commission's own rules, should have been handled
go beyond statistics compiled annually by the
identically.
U.S. Sentencing Commission. Tapes were provided
The federal system is built on a grid made up of
by the commission and the Inter-University
258 boxes or cells, each setting a range of possible
Consortium for Political and Social Research, a
prison time for a crime. A defendant's criminal
research clearinghouse associated with the
record and the facets of his current case position him
University of Michigan.
in one of those boxes.
The files included detailed information on cases
Using this grid, a defendant positioned at level 22
sentenced in fiscal years 1990, 1994 and 1995. Most
for his crime, with an extensive criminal record that
figures used in The Post's analyses were developed
puts him in criminal history category 4, should face
using 1994 and 1995 files, which contained about
between 63 and 78 months of prison time. In this
79,000 cases.
instance, a 72-month sentence corresponds to a point
One important indicator of how the sentencing
within the range that is 60 percent of the cell's width
system is functioning is the agreement rate between
of 15 (78 minus 63). A similar defendant given a
the pre-sentence report prepared by a probation
66-month sentence would still be in the same box,
officer and the final sentence. For its comparison,
but his shorter sentence falls at 20 percent of the
The Post used the high and low end of each sentence
cell's width.
as proposed to the court by the probation officer,
This approach allowed disparity figures to be
then compared it to the final sentence. If the
calculated and compared for the whole grid and for
probation officer recommended sentencing between
groups of defendants by race, ethnicity or sex, even
46 months to 57 months and the final sentence was
though sentencing ranges differ from box to box.
24 months, that case was recorded as a
disagreement.
William Casey is director of computer-assisted
The Post also examined sentencing disparities by
reporting.
The Washington Post
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centuries, a simple, economic and environmentally sensitive life-
style developed. Within a short time, they had all the comforts of
home on the hunting trail: a tipi, running water, wood, grass for
horses, and plenty of fish, wildlife, fruit and roots of the land.
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Office of The First Lady
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C 20050
September 12, 1996
Dear Ms. Williams:
I have always thought of Bob Woodward as a real "jerk"
who probably sends his mother a congratulations card
on his birthday.
I was really livid when he appeared on Larry King and
other talk shows with his snide remarks about Mrs.
Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Obviously, he never read Royal Feud by Michale Thornton.
On page 285, paragraph three, Mr. Thornton tells how
Queen Eliza beth (now the Queen Mother) used a spirit-
ualist medium to contact her husband, the dead King.
I doubt if even Mr. Woodward would have had the audacity to
make the same comments against the Queen Mother that he
made about Mrs. Clinton
As a senior, I can't wait until October to vote absentee
for the reelection of President Clinton and Vice Presi-
dent Gore.
Very truly yours
B. Van autgens
Mrs. B. Van Auken
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September 12, 1996
Dear Ms. Williams:
I have always thought of Bob Woodward as a real "jerk"
who probably sends his mother a congratulations card
on his birthday.
I was really livid when he appeared on Larry King and
other talk shows with his snide remarks about Mrs.
Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Obviously, he never read Royal Feud by Michale Thornton.
On page 285, paragraph three, Mr. Thornton tells how
Queen Eliza beth (now the Queen Mother) used a spirit-
malist medium to contact her husband, the dead King.
I doubt if even Mr. Woodward would have had the audacity to
make the same comments against the Queen Mother that he
made about Mrs. Clinton
As a senior, I ean't wait until October to vote absentee
for the reelection of President Clinton and Vice Presi-
dent Gore.
Very truly yours
B Van Outgens
Mrs. B. Van Auken
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Wallis and 'the Monster of Glamis'
285
by herself, Princess Margaret and the other royal ladies-was
not merely unwelcome but out of the question. 21 This would
mean relegating Wallis to the back row of the seats occupied
by the twenty-seven non-royal duchesses, among whom she
technically ranked last of all. Since this, or the Duke's atten-
dance without her, would be an obvious source of criticism, it
was decided to invite neither of them, on the grounds that the
Duke, as a former sovereign, albeit an uncrowned one, could
not properly attend and witness the coronation of one of his
successors on the throne. It was a specious argument, for there
YAL
was no existing precedent concerning an abdicated uncrowned
monarch, and the Windsors were bound to view the decision
as the latest in a long line of petty humiliations.
The widowed Queen finally left Buckingham Palace and
moved into Clarence House on May 18, only fifteen days before
the Coronation. Some of the higher-up Palace officials 'couldn't
think why the Queen Mother stayed on here so long-not that
she will relish the move to Clarence House for there won't be
the number of servants there that she's accustomed to'."
Once installed in her new home, only a few hundred yards
from the Palace, Elizabeth sent for a spiritualist medium, Lilian
Bailey, who conducted a seance for her in an attempt to com-
FELL
municate with the dead King. It was apparently successful, for
afterwards, in a gesture of gratitude, the Queen Mother 'unpinned
her brooch and fastened it to Miss Bailey's lapel'. 23 As far as
it is known, this was the Queen Mother's only recourse to
spiritualism, and, in view of her lifelong adherence to orthodox
Christianity, it seems that some particular dilemma must have
impelled her
Opinion at the new court was not unanimously in favour of
continuing the ostracism of the Windsors. Both Queen Mary's
sister-in-law and her niece, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
and the Duchess of Beaufort, had strongly urged reconciliation.
FOR THIRTY YEARS, ELIZABETH, ENGLAND'S
The Queen Mother, responding to the pressures around her,
BELOVED QUEEN MOTHER, REFUSED TO MEET HER
may have wondered at this point, with Queen Mary no longer
SISTER-IN-LAW WALLIS SIMPSON, THE TWICE-DIVORCED
on the scene, if she was justified in maintaining an unrelenting
9861 NON
AMERICAN WOMAN WHO CAPTURED KING EDWARD VIII'S
attitude towards her brother-in-law and his wife. If the spirit
HEART AND COST HIM THE THRONE. HERE, FINALLY,
of George VI expressed any views on this dilemma, they must
IS THE TRUE, BEHIND-THE-SCENES STORY OF THE
have been adverse, for another fourteen years were to pass
before the Duchess of Windsor would meet his widow.
MODERN-DAY WAR OF THE ROSES.
On June 2, the Queen Mother received an affectionate and
moving reception from the London crowds as she drove in her
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Washington, DC 20503
Dear Ms. Williams:
Thank you so very much for your remarks on September 17th
when the Women's College Coalition and Mount Vernon College came
to participate "At the Table" in what was a most memorable
occasion. The evening before, Secretary Shalala and
Congresswomen Woolsey and Slaughter came to our campus and spoke
to the President, Presidents of Student Government Associations
and Mount Vernon students about policy considerations that effect
the lives of women. None of us are likely to forget this
remarkable occasion which you made even more special. All of us
will treasure this memory for a very long time.
With gratitude and best regards.
Yours sincerely,
LucyAnn Geiselman
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November surprise
ernment employees have seen.
what happens when a hostile
We're not sure what to make of
Congress calls the shots," AFGE
Hillary Rodham Clinton's
states in the October issue of its
eyebrow-raising remarks at this
year's Democratic National Com-
BELL
WAY
publication Government Stan-
dard. "And since Congress shut
mittee fund-raiser, but it's almost
down America, government em-
worth voting for President Clin-
ton in November to find out what
By John McCasline
ployees have promised to remem-
ber in November."
she and Vice President Al Gore
Without endorsing any candi
have in store for their country.
date, the union is running an ad
"I'm here to tell you that in the
on the back page of the same
second term, Al and I are
publication offering for $7 each
breaking out and we are not go-
union-made Clinton-Gore cam-
ing to let Bill Clinton and Tipper
paign buttons, personalized with
Gore have all the fun," said a
the government employee's name.
laughing Mrs. Clinton, having al-
"This ad not to be posted on
ready pointed out to the crowd
federal property," the union wrote
that her husband and Mrs. Gore
under the ad. "Please do not wear
were actually a team, and that
these buttons at your worksite."
they share not only the "same ap-
proaches in life," but also the
00
Whoops!
same birthday.
"But I'm not going to go any
"How's this for congressional
further. I don't want to spoil the
relations!" says the office of Sen.
surprise," the first lady teased
John Ashcroft, Missouri Republi-
Democrats at the gala at the
can and accidental recipient of
Washington Convention Center.
six pages of the Democratic Par-
"But among the many reasons
ty's political strategy, sent to him
why you should vote for and work
by the White House, no less.
for and contribute to Bill Clinton
The topic dealt with how to
and Al Gore is to see what hap-
gain politically from so-called
pens after the election, when AI
Republican attacks on everything
and I feel totally at ease to be our
from Head Start and AmeriCorps
real selves," she said.
to the Summer Jobs program.
Republicans have been having
A video of Hillary Rodham Clinton talking about the fun she and AI Gore
fun with the video of late, not
plan to have in a second term has viewers amused, and a little puzzled.
A more hollow hill
sure whether the first lady's joke
Capitol Hill is a much quieter
was on her Democratic audience
fund-raiser thrown by the Amer-
or on them.
1916, although he returned in
place now that the 104th Con-
ican Conservative Union, of
1930 for an 11-year turn as chief
gress has adjourned and senators
which he is a board member.
justice.
and congressmen returned home.
Remember Woody
"I think Woody's victory and
While his head of hair is thin-
Thirteen senators announced
Woody Jenkins couldn't have
his eventual win in November
ning a bit in front, Justice
their retirement, joining Bob
come to town at a better time.
will prove that conservatives
Scalia's salt-and-pepper beard
Dole and Bob Packwood, who re-
As some polls after Sunday
should not be faint of heart about
and mustache, grown during
signed for very different reasons.
night's presidential debate in-
their convictions," said Craig
summer recess, offers heavy
Among them was the jovial
credibly put Bob Dole even fur-
Shirley, a fellow ACU board mem-
cover, from earlobe to earlobe
Howell Heflin, a retired country
ther behind Bill Clinton, the Re-
ber and GOP political strategist.
and across the upper lip.
judge and Democrat who couldn't
publican state representative
Mr. Jenkins faces Democrat
President Reagan, who nom-
wait to get back to Alabama.
from Louisiana was here as liv-
Mary Landrieu, a former state
inated Justice Scalia, twice tried
Proof of that came during 1996
ing proof that pollsters aren't al-
treasurer who got 22 percent of
to appoint beards directly to the
farm-bill negotiations by the Sen-
the vote in the runoff.
ways fortunetellers.
court, but Judge Robert H. Bork
ate Agriculture Committee.
Mr. Jenkins came from behind
and Douglas H. Ginsburg fell
"Committee Democrats were
in the polls to take first place in
Finally, a beard
afoul of confirmation battles.
present," recalls Sen. Kent Con-
the recent runoff for the Senate
rad, North Dakota Democrat,
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
seat vacated by J. Bennett John-
Bureaucrats for Bill
"waiting for our Republican
Scalia, the scourge of courtroom
ston. One poll said he'd get 8 per-
counterparts to finish their cau-
advocates who argue a liberal in-
The American Federation of
cent of the vote, but he actually
cus and enter the room. Suddenly,
terpretation of the Constitution,
won the state's open primary with
Government Employees, AFL-
above the din of the members,
found a pre-World War I model
CIO, contends it "is and has al-
26 percent.
staff and lobbyists came a bel-
for his game-day face.
Last night in Old Town Alexan-
ways been a nonpartisan organi-
lowing call, 'Sound the
He showed up on the bench
dria, Mr. Jenkins, whose
zation," yet the union is urging
pachyderm horns!'
yesterday wearing a full beard,
federal workers to "remember
statewide victory is being held
"The judge had made it known
the first sitting justice to do so
our friends in November."
aloft for Mr. Dole's naysayers,
he wasn't interested in waiting
since Charles Evans Hughes,
was on the receiving end of a
"Following closely on the heels
for the Republicans any longer.
who retired from the court in
of two government lockouts, gov-
They promptly returned."
The Washington Times
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1996
other geographical locales, turn-
Rue the day
"Of all the labor groups in-
volved in this year's campaign,
none is more active than federal
Inside Politics
out rates in major cities have
plummeted since the end of
World War II, seriously eroding
big-city clout in presidential elec-
workers," the Wall Street Journal
tions, the study found.
reports.
Suburban areas, which have
"When Congress twice shut
registered the highest turnout
down the government last winter,
rates for most of the 20th cen-
hundreds of thousands of angry
tury, also have experienced a rel-
workers suddenly found them-
ative decline during the past 50
selves temporarily unemployed,
years, and a significant drop-off
and many blamed the Republi-
after 1980.
cans," reporter Glenn Burkins
says.
Gift to politics
Leaders of the American Fed-
eration of Government Employ-
Thomas C. Sorensen is dying
ees "are desperate to stoke that
Compiled by Greg Pierce
of cancer, but he hopes to leave a
anger, as is evident in the union's
legacy for those interested in
election-year slogan, 'We'll Re-
wanted to know why the Jee mat-
politics.
member in November.' That's also
ter, now a decade old, was a le-
Absent voters
Mr. Sorensen, son of a crusad-
the title of a 19-minute video the
gitimate issue in this Senate cam-
ing attorney general of Nebraska
Voter-turnout rates in the na-
AFGE has produced."
and the brother of President John
paign," the newspaper said in an
tion's big cities and suburbs have
Rep. John L. Mica, chairman of
F. Kennedy's special counsel, has
editorial yesterday.
declined significantly since 1960,
a House subcommittee on civil
pledged $500,000 to the Virginia
"The answer is that the situa-
researchers say.
service, is one Republican being
Institute of Political Leadership
tion casts a harsh light on Mr.
A study conducted by scholars
targeted by the union. An AFGE
in Charlottesville. The institute is
Torricelli's judgment," the Record
at the University of Illinois sug-
official complained that Mr. Mica
expected to be named for Mr.
said.
gests Democrats cannot focus
"has taken shots at us at every
Sorensen.
solely on mobilizing urban voters,
opportunity."
"I've pledged the money as
However, Mr. Mica, whose
Coming home
while Republicans need to figure
soon as I kick the bucket," Mr.
out why voters in the suburbs are
Florida district is heavily Repub-
Sorensen told the Richmond
Raymond Flynn, U.S. ambassa-
staying home, United Press Inter-
lican and has few union workers,
Times-Dispatch. "I'm very, very
dor to the Vatican, does not ex-
national reports.
does not sound worried.
proud to have my name associ-
pect to continue in that role
"It would be costly to [Repub-
"Let them come on," Mr. Mica
ated with it. I just wish I could
should President Clinton win a
licans] to lose the 'bonus' that
said. "Not only will we cream
give more."
second term.
their suburban constituents have
them there, but they will rue the
Mr. Sorensen joined the U.S.
"No, I don't think so," Mr.
provided them since 1924," re-
day they ever crossed me."
Information Agency in 1951. He
Flynn told Reuters news agency
searchers said in the study, pub-
Harsh light
when asked if he would stay in
served in Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo
lished in "PS: Political Science &
the diplomatic post. "Rome is
and Israel. Eventually, he became
Politics."
Democratic Rep. Robert Torri-
eternal, but Boston is home."
the agency's deputy director
Nationwide, turnout in pres-
He became Robert Kennedy's
celli, in the midst of a hot race
The former Boston mayor, who
idential elections declined to 51
was back in Boston to attend a
assistant campaign manager dur-
for a Senate seat from New Jer-
percent in 1988, a 20 percent
sey, is under fire for questionable
dinner honoring Ireland's Presi-
ing Mr. Kennedy's bid for presi-
drop since 1960, researchers
actions back in 1984.
dent Mary Robinson Sunday
dent in 1968. After Mr. Kennedy's
found when they examined voting
assassination, he worked for Alan
The Bergen County Record re-
night, said his wife has stayed
patterns for all counties and most
ported last week that Mr. Torri-
home while he has been abroad.
Cranston's successful campaign
large cities.
for the U.S. Senate in California.
celli not only took care of the
"Almost all of the deterioration
He also managed his brother
daughter of a fugitive sought for
in turnout rates since 1960 OC-
swindling banks out of $34 mil-
Bullet Poll
Ted's losing 1969 campaign in
curred in major metropolitan
New York for the Senate before
lion, but also arranged for the fu-
A Bullet Poll taken over the
areas or after 18-year-olds were
jumping into the world of invest-
gitive, Korean-American busi-
weekend but before the pres-
given the vote in 1970," said Peter
ment firms, where his Middle
nessman and Democratic Party
idential debate showed Bob Dole
Nardulli, head of the university's
East expertise served him well:
contributor Harvard Jee, to sign
trailing by only 6 percentage
political science department.
Mr. Sorensen has a rare cancer
legal papers at a U.S. Embassy -
points - a 10-point gain within a
Rural areas and smaller metro-
and never notified authorities.
politan areas have had higher
that affects only about 100 people
week.
"When Record Staff Writers
a year. He was told in January
Mr. Clinton had 46 percent to
turnout rates than larger cities
there is no cure.
Michale Moore and Thomas Fitz-
Mr. Dole's 40 percent, according
throughout most of American po-
"I could do without the honor,"
gerald interviewed Mr. Torricelli
to the survey. Ross Perot had 11
litical history.
he said. "I'd as soon as have the
for the story, the congressman
percent.
But, when compared with
flu."
The Washington Times
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1996
POLITICS
North Carolina Democrats
to comment, saying it was an issue best left to
Klug's, the candidate concludes, "The next time
Helms and the ethics committee.
someone tells you Scott Klug is Newt Gingrich,
Seek Helms Ethics Probe
Democrats contend that Helms, a former
tell them they got the wrong picture."
member of the ethics panel, has underreported
How does Gingrich-feel about one of his
The North Carolina Democratic Party yes-
his holdings for 12 years, even after the com-
troops so blatantly separating himself from the
terday filed a complaint with the Senate ethics
mittee asked him for more information about
Gingrich agenda? "Scott and Newt discussed it
committee seeking a probe into published alle-
them in 1990.
beforehand," said Don Meyer, spokesman for
gations that Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and his
the Klug campaign. "Newt said, "Scott, we need
wife officially understated their real estate
Morphing and Bashing in madison
you back here next year, you are in a tradition-
holdings, including several rental properties
The Washington Post
Madison, Wis., has always been a place
ally Democratic district-you do what it takes
that had no heat for years.
where they do things differently. and now that
to get back here.'
Helms has said any reporting failures were
inadvertent. But Lisbeth C. Evans of the state
is even true of morphing and Newt-bashing.
Talk about bailing out on the revolution.
Ohio's Flying Governor Shot Down
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1996
Democratic Party, said in a letter to the ethics
panel, "The failure to disclose may have been a
In the rest of the country, the generic politi-
& Ohio Gov. George V. Voinovich (R) has paid a
deliberate attempt to hide the fact that the sen-
cal television spot goes like this: The Demo-
$1,500 fine to the federal government for or-
ator is a millionaire slumlord."
cratic candidate puts the face of the GOP oppo-
dering his state plane to take off without per-
The News & Observer of Raleigh, citing tax
nent on the screen and slowly morphs, or
mission. He will also have $3,500 in legal fees.
records, reported Wednesday that Helms and
transforms, that face into the mug of Newt Gin-
The incident occurred nearly a year ago at
his. wife, Dorothy, own 15 rental properties
grich while an announcer gravely intones that a
the Ohio State University airport about an hour
with an assessed tax value of just over $1 mil-
vote for the Republican is a vote for the unpop-
after President Clinton had landed at the main
lion, six more than they reported as being
ular House speaker.
Columbus airport several miles away. The FAA
owned by Dorothy Helms in official disclosure
Not so in Wisconsin's progressive 2nd Con-
had told the governor, who had turned down an
forms. Twelve were listed as belonging to her,
gressional District, centered in Madison, where
invitation to greet Clinton and was headed to
two owned jointly and one owned by the sena-
Scott Klug, a moderate Republican, is running
tour a steel mill, he could not take off because
tor.
for reelection against Paul Soglin, mayor of
air traffic was restricted during Clinton's visit.
County tax records show six of the dwellings,
Madison. Even before Soglin could morph Klug
Published reports said Voinovich grabbed a
including a jointly owned one, have no heat, ac-
and Gingrich, Klug went on the air and did it
microphone and told the tower it could shoot
cording to the Associated Press. Helms spokes-
himself.
the plane downiif it did not like his take-off or-
man Jimmy Broughton said the tax records are
In the ad viewers see a picture of Gingrich's
der.
outdated and all the houses now have heat. But
face with Klug's lips and his voice uttering,
Voinovich in a letter to the Federal Aviation
at least one tenant said he bought kerosene
"You've heard a lot of talk lately about how
Administration released by his office said, "I
heaters to stay warm in winter. Another tenant
Scott Klug and Newt Gingrich are the same
should have exercised more restraint, not lost
said his back yard has been the scene of drug
person." Then, as Klug boasts he was rated the
my temper and remained at the airport until
deals.
"ninth most independent" Republican in the
this confusing situation was cleared up." He
Helms, who is seeking a fifth term, said he
House, a newspaper collage appears on screen
said he believed the problem was due to a "se-
plans to file an amended report and sought to
with headlines delineating his votes against the
ries of mistakes" by the FAA and the Secret
play down the controversy. He said he knows
Gingrich revolution on various cuts in education
Service, but decided not to appeal because of
little about his wife's property holdings. Harvey
and the environment. Gingrich's face appears
the costs and time involved.
Gantt, Helms's Democratic opponent, declined
again and, as. the speaker's face morphs into
-Holen Dewar and David Maraniss
L.A. Plan Allowing Drug Users
In HUD Housing Raises GOP Ire
By John Schwartz and Judith Evans
abuse is a long-term, chronic relapsing condi-
Washington Post Staff Writers
tion-and putting people out on the streets was
inhumane and bad public health policy."
Congressional Republicans are attacking a pi-
"No one condones active drug use," said Wen-
lot program in Los Angeles that will provide fed-
dy Greuel, HUD's representative in Southern
erally funded housing for people with AIDS, but
California. "However, effective drug treatment
will not eject people for using illegal drugs, even
programs provide a therapeutic response to per-
if they do so within the facility itself.
sons who may relapse and respond in a way that
Such a program, they argue, appears to con-
also protects the public safety."
flict with long-stated Department of Housing and
Allowing substance abusers to remain in hous-
Urban Development policies requiring expulsion
ing is an increasingly popular, but controversial,
for any drug use in public or assisted housing.
concept known as "harm reduction" and goes
"Any federal program that condones illegal
against the grain of more traditional therapies
drug use is ill-conceived and must be changed,"
that would require a person to kick their habit
House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-
first and then deal with other issues such as lack
Tex.) said in a statement. "It is never compas-
sionate to condone illegal drug use, especially
of housing, or poor health.
with taxpayer dollars."
Besides Armey, Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
The criticism of the program comes as con-
also sent a letter to HUD Secretary Henry Cis-
servatives have been attempting to portray the
neros complaining about the Los Angeles pro-
Clinton administration as being soft on drugs and
gram, which has also drawn fire from some
unable to produce an effective policy for combat-
members of the AIDS prevention and treatment
ing what appears to be increasing drug use na-
community.
tionwide, particularly among teenagers.
"This program is wrong and outrageous," said
While HUD generally operates under a "zero-
Shepherd Smith, president of Herndon-based
tolerance" policy that allows tenants to be evict-
Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. "It is
ed for substance abuse, the program under
nevertheless a logical outcome of a permissive
which the Los Angeles complex operates gives
thought process concerning substance abuse
cities great flexibility in creating and administer-
drug acceptance in this issue is widespread
ing policies. The program is one of hundreds
throughout this administration."
funded by a special $171 million HUD initiative
HUD officials argued that the policy does not
to provide federal housing and treatment for
contradict the Clinton administration's support
people with AIDS. The new Los Angeles pro-
for "zero-tolerance" federal laws that allow local
gram would serve people with AIDS and other
public housing authorities to evict tenants who
problems such as drug abuse or mental illness.
are accused of a single crime, including drug
A February 1996 "Request For Proposals"
sales. Earlier this year, Cisneros unveiled a HUD
published by Los Angeles called for any organiza-
policy that would use a housing authority's re-
tions wanting to run the program to provide
cord in evicting criminals from public housing in
"Policies and procedures for drug and/or alcohol
evaluating their performance for funding under
use on-site and off-site, including steps for deal-
certain programs.
ing with relapsing clients to ensure their ability
Although the "one-strike-and-you'reout" poli-
to remain in the program."
cy has been allowed since 1988, many local pub-
At least one organization that applied for the
lic housing authorities have been lax in imple-
grant money, the Salvation Army, was rejected
menting the approach, HUD officials said.
because it would not accept the provision con-
However, the housing programs for people
cerning on-site drug use. "The Salvation Army
with AIDS would "not fall under those rules," and
felt we couldn't condone use on-site. So we
didn't put that in our proposal," said Anne Calvo,
the programs are considered more akin to treat-
executive director of the Salvation Army's Los
ment programs than traditional housing pro-
Angeles residential care facilities for families
grams, a HUD spokesman said.
with AIDS. The $2.8 million grant eventually
"The congressman has it wrong," said HUD
was awarded to Friends Medical Research, Inc.,
spokesman Alex Sachs, referring to Armey's
which plans to open the facility next spring.
criticism. "Zero tolerance for on-site drug abuse
Ferd Eggan, Los Angeles city AIDS coordina-
is HUD's policy. If Los Angeles or any city funds
tor, said the program was not a "glorified crack
a program that allows on-site, illegal drug use, it
house," but was conceived as a compassionate
is in direct conflict with HUD's zero-tolerance
way to deal with the complexities of AIDS suffer-
policy.
ers who also abuse drugs. Far from condoning
"Given HUD's clear stand against drug
drug use, Eggan said, the program would pro-
abuse," Sachs said, "is the congressman suggest-
vide drug treatment, intensive therapy and other
ing that we go one step further and bar all drug
services to encourage people who had relapsed
abusers from drug treatment programs?"
to reform. Multiple offenders, however, would
L.A. AIDS coordinator Eggan said that the
be referred to other substance abuse centers.
program is special to him because he has AIDS
"We really were, for the sake of humanity, go-
and took drugs in the past. "People have forgiven
ing to find people a place to live" who had no oth-
me, and made space for me to make contribu-
er options, Eggan said. "L.A. needed to create a
tions in the world," he said. "The same should be
program that took as its premise that substance
offered to other people."
The Washington Post
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1996
National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
Personal
-
Get It Done!
Opening Ceremony
633 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
October 10, 1996
Opening Remarks
Cicely Tyson
Presentation of the Colors
Dunbar Senior High School
ROTC Color Guard
Invocation
Dr. Vashti M. McKenzie
Pastor, Payne Memorial AME Church
Musical Selection
Howard University Choir
Dr. J. Weldon Norris, Director
Greetings
Introduction by Renee Poussaint
Mrs. Cora Masters Barry
Greetings
Key to the City
Honorable Marion Barry, Mayor
District of Columbia
The Occasion
Dorothy I. Height
President & Chief Executive Officer
National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
Greetings
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Greetings
Camille Cosby
Greetings
Susan Taylor
Editor-In-Chief, Essence Magazine
Reading
Dr. Maya Angelou
Chair, Fund for the Future Campaign
Musical Selection
Introduction by Renee Poussaint
Howard University Choir
File Personal
T
he sweltering afternoon was bittersweet for
S
ometimes, the first lady dons a hat and dark sun-
Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her husband was sign-
glasses and simply walks outside the insular
ing health-care legislation in a grand South Lawn
White House compound for a bit of freedom
ceremony, but it was a pale shadow of the sweeping
even if a couple of Secret Service agents tag along.
plan she championed two years before. And she was
(Once, some tourists told her: "You look like Hillary
not on the dais with the President and the congression-
Clinton." Her response: "So I've been told.")
al sponsors of the new law. Instead, the woman who
Her walks are a way to escape, if briefly, the unreal
wanted to be the architect of dramatic change in Amer-
life in the media bubble. Her friends say that in Ar-
ica was simply a guest, politely applauding.
kansas, people saw her in familiar, ordinary settings
Then the President turned to his wife in the front
such as taking Chelsea to school or strolling through a
row.
shopping mall. And those humdrum rituals were a real-
"I believe, Hillary, that this justifies all those days
ity check for her.
on the road and all those nights you stayed up reading
But in the White House, every move is scrutinized,
the incomprehensibly complex issues of health care.
magnified and usually criticized. Those who know her
Thank you."
best say Clinton has grown more circumspect and cau-
And the audience, which included some who lob-
tious during her tumultuous years in the White House.
bied mightily to kill her complex plan, gave her a stand-
"The thing that bothers me," she acknowledges,
ing ovation.
"is that it is kind of like being in a constant state of
For Hillary Clinton, it was an unfamiliar role, sit-
readiness because you never know who is going to say
ting on the sidelines. For most of her life, she has re-
something or make up something, and you are just
ceived those standing ovations from behind the micro-
poised to have to take it because the thing I have
phone, at the center of the action.
learned is I can't respond to it.
That's how Americans have come to know her dur-
"But then you wonder, well, gee, you know, that's
ing these last four years: giving a speech, talking to
hard because that's not natural either, because when I
Congress, answering questions at a news conference or
think about most people I know, if someone comes up
a high-profile interview. She offers various glimpses of
and insults you or your husband or says something that
herself: wife, mother, lawyer, professor, political activist,
is untrue, you naturally say, 'Wait a minute.'
skilled campaigner. But in truth, Hillary Clinton, one of
Judy Osgood, who has known Clinton since high
the most prominent and powerful people in America, is
school, says her friend is caught in the first lady bind.
to many people little more than a caricature: Super
The public wants to stick an easy label on its first ladies
Woman or Princess of Darkness.
- Shrew or Sweetheart. "If she is too perfect, then
The real Hillary, her friends say, is a complex blend
they criticize the first lady for not being real," said Os-
of what you see and what you don't. Ambitious. Fun-
good. "We have impossible expectations. If her guard
ny. Analytical. Intense. Warm. And, at her core, im-
were down and she was what we think of as more her-
pelled by her deep Methodist roots to try to improve
self, people would be all over her, saying she wasn't act-
the world.
ing like a first lady."
In a recent interview, sitting in a gilded armchair in
Diane Blair, a close friend who teaches political sci-
the sunny Yellow Oval Room of the White House,
ence at the University of Arkansas, says that in the last
Clinton acknowledged she finds it difficult to give a
four years, she hasn't seen in public the person she has
public glimpse of the private person.
known for 20 years. "When I see her on TV, I see al-
"Coming into this position as someone who has al-
ways a very serious person, whereas the Hillary I know
ways been intent about combining both my profession-
has a wacky sense of humor and is laughing constant-
al and public interests with my family responsibilities, I
ly," Blair said. "Now, she is a figure on a stage at a
really did represent something different than has been
podium, and she is carefully tailored and under a spot-
in this role before," she said. "I believe a lot of people
light. What I am seeing is strictly, understandably the
just didn't know what to think."
public figure."
But she says she has learned to accept much of the
The public Hillary - smooth, articulate, controlled
criticism as reflected animosity.
- is the Ivy League attorney who twice was named by
"I had no idea that I would be such a target for my
the National Law Journal as among the nation's 100
husband's opponents, because I really do think that's
continued on Page 12
the primary driving force. A friend of mine who's a
great hunter said, 'You've got to accept the fact that
ANGIE CANNON is a reporter in The Inquirer's
you're the decoy. He's the duck.
Washington bureau.
10
OCTOBER 6. 1996
Photography by Diane Walleer/Gamma и
private side of the public woman
Clinton
continued from Page 10
best lawyers. She's the one who led the
Clinton administration's fight for nation-
al health insurance, the one who went to
Capitol Hill to testify, who sat alone at
the witness table, spoke without notes,
and smoothly stroked the enormous con-
gressional egos. She's also the one who
steadfastly led the plan to defeat, work-
You'd GIVE YOUR LIE
ing in secret with the task force drafting
her plan, producing a confusing, politi-
cally unsellable, 1,342-page proposal
BUT THAT'S NOT Wha
that contributed to the Democrats' fall
from power in the 1994 elections.
The public Hillary is the one who
has been a trusted and prominent presi-
dential adviser, and the one who has
been at the center of some of the admin-
istration's biggest embarrassments: the
health-care debacle, the Whitewater con-
troversy, the White House travel office
firings, the disclosure of the high-stakes
commodities trading that parlayed her
$1,000 into $100,000.
She is hardly the first presidential
wife to be an influential presidential ad-
viser or to be criticized for it. Abigail
Adams was called "Mrs President."
Edith Wilson ran a "perticoat govern-
ment" after her husband's stroke. Ros-
alynn Carter was lambasted for sitting in
on some of her husband's meetings. One
newspaper declared that Nancy Reagan
had broadened the role to an "associate
DAD
presidency."
"Every woman whom I have read
about who has lived here in the past has
been faced with the same dilemmas, has
hadvit
happy
engendered both probably more praise
and criticism than she deserved," Clin-
ton said in her recent interview.
BIRTHD,
rthd
But her own public style, particular-
ly her response to crisis and criticism, has
a lot to do with how people view her.
"There is the lawyering side to her,
which has been really what I would as-
cribe a lot of her problems to," said a
former White House official who asked
not to be identified by name. "It is a ten-
dency to kind of litigate everything
"There is a difference between peo-
ple who litigate and [people who]
schmooze around Washington and com-
promise."
12 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER OCTOBER 6. 1996
S
o who is the off-stage, off-mike
Hillary Clinton?
She has a keen sense of humor
and a raucous laugh. Those closest to
her say she is a warm, caring, smart
woman, committed to her family,
friends, and social justice. She is, they
say, a pragmatic achiever, but one driven
by more than self.
"I think you have to be motivated by
altruism to endure what she has," said
former Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee
Democrat who locked horns with her
over health care. "There are a lot easier,
more comfortable lifestyles she could
have chosen than the one she has. She
has to be truly dedicated to the public in-
terest to keep going every day. Hers is a
dedication and resolve few people have."
A former White House official said
WANT You TO STAY HEALTHY.
both Clintons believe that government
can help people, but their methods are
different.
ORTANT THAT You KNOW ABOUT
"He is more cerebral about it, and
she is more Methodist about it," the of-
L FROM BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB.
ficial said. "He thinks about history and
how different people have done things.
Hers is more, We have 20 million
children living in poverty, and how can
we get more Head Start for them, and
my mission is to do that.'
At 48, Hillary Clinton is actually
very traditional and can be corny in a
(E ONLY CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING
way that the younger people on her staff
would pooh-pooh in their own mothers.
IND PROVEN TO HELP PREVENT
Among them, she is legendary for
matchmaking. She has been known to
walk into events at a school or a hospital,
RST HEART ATTACK.
see a good-looking man, nudge an aide
and whisper something like, "Oh,
wouldn't he be great for" so-and-so. She
wants to know who is dating whom.
aths due to heart disease among
before and during treatment.
Once, she said about a single White
>se taking PRAVACHOL.
Be sure to tell your doctor right
House staffer: "We need to get him mar-
RAVACHOL, when used with diet,
away if you experience any muscle
ried off."
pain or weakness, as it may be
She says stuff like, "Okey dokey, ar-
S been proven to reduce the risk
tichokey." She delights in planning sur-
a first heart attack, reduce the
a sign of a serious side effect. Be
prise birthday parties for those on her
k of death from heart disease,
sure to mention any medications
adoring, close-knit, mostly female staff.
d reduce the risk of heart
you are taking so any possible
A few were stunned the morning she
rgery in people with high
serious drug interactions can be
was leaving a trip to Central Europe that
extended past the Fourth of July. Every-
olesterol but no symptoms or
avoided. Please see important
one was rushing around with thousands
story of heart disease.
information on the next page.
of things to do. And suddenly, while
LAVACHOL is a prescription drug,
Please keep this reminder.
ticking off lists of things she needed done
you should ask your doctor or
for the trip, Hillary Clinton told her staff:
"If anyone needs them, the sparklers are
althcare professional if
Ask your doctor if
in this drawer."
LAVACHOL is right for you. Some
Pravachol is right for you or
"She was totally serious," said her
de effects, such as slight rash or
call 1-800-PREVENT
surprised chief of staff, Maggie Williams.
ild stomach upset, occur in
for more information on the
Without question, her top priority is
out 2-4% of patients.
first and only cholesterol-lowering
her family, especially her 16-year-old
drug of its kind proven to help
daughter, Chelsea, whom she has shield-
RAVACHOL should not be taken by
prevent first heart attacks.
ed from the glare of scrutiny and who
omen who are pregnant or
has blossomed into a poised, pretty
ursing, people who are allergic to
teenager trying to pick a college.
by of its ingredients or by anyone
PRAVACHOL
The day before her Capitol Hill tes-
timony on health care, her husband
ith liver disease. Your doctor may
wanted her to accompany him to New
:rform tests to check your liver
York for his first big speech to the Unit-
ed Nations. That night, there was a
meeting at Chelsea's school. He couldn't
PREVENT FIRST HEART ATTACKS.
make it back. She went instead. Only
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
much later that night did she settle down
to prepare for the congressional appear-
ances that were so important to her
13 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER OCTOBER 6. 1996
continued on next page
Clinton
"We would rake leaves and cut the
Mutagenesia, impairment of Fertifity in 0 2-year
or 100 reg/kg body weight, there was an increased incidence
continued from previous page
grass and trim the bushes and say, 'Dad,
highest does P 0.01). Although rate were given up to 125
eight basis, serum drug levels were only to 10 times higher
how about some money?' And he would
revastatin as measured by AUC The oral administration of 10.
0.5 to 5.0 times the human drug levels at 40
in a significant increase in the incidence of
health-care plan.
look at us and give us an extra piece of
Ex
all
groups were pooled and compared to controls
Another time, after the President's
meat."
mice were not effected. A chemically similar drug
100, and 400 mg/kg body weight, which resulted
first State of the Union speech, there was
Clinton says her father was an old-
5. and 33 times higher than the mean human serum drug
a
8
oral
dose.
Liver
carcinomes
were
significantly
males,
with
a
maximum
incidence
of
90
percent
in
a small celebratory gathering afterward at
fashioned man who wasn't big on emo-
was significantly increased in mid- and high-dose females.
tions or conversations, but who had a
incidence of lung adenomes in and- and high-dose males and
the White House. The first lady was
a gland of to eye of redents) were significantly higher in
nowhere to be found.
strong sense of what it took to lead their
- observed in with with or without rat -Iver
mutagen tests, using mutant strains of Satxonalle
"When she got home from the
lives: Be strong, work hard and make
TK + mouse tymphoms cells; a
using
Saccharomyces
cerevisies.
speech, she found out that Chelsea was
sacrifices.
city
lethal test in mice or a micronucieus
up to 500 mg/kg. prevestatin did not produce any adverse
stuck on some homework," said Blair,
"He was never questioning whether
However, in study with another HMG COA reductase
ets treated for 34 weeks at 25 mg/kg body weight, although
the Arkansas political scientist. "Hillary
I should or shouldn't do something be-
Partifility study when this name dose was for 11
tuding epididymal maturation). in rats treated with this same
went to help her. That is the kind of
cause I was a girl or whether some ambi-
ous tubuie degeners (necrosts and loss of
two similar drugs in this class caused drug-
thing that belies this assumption that she
tion was appropriate," she recalls. "He
Indear.
Pregnancy:
and giant cell formation See
Programcy
Category
IL
-
is a woman driven by political ambi-
was always encouraging me, always
has not been established. Pravastatin was not teratogenic
abits at doess of up to 50 mg/kg daily. These doess resulted
tion."
telling me I had to work hard, I had to
based OR surface area (mg/mater However, in studies with
were observed in rate and mice. There has
get a good education, I had to do the
fistuta, and and atrests (Veter
who took another HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor with
he seeds of Hillary Rodham Clin-
best job I could."
of pregnancy. PRAVACHOL prevastatin sodium) should
such patients are highly unitkely to conceive
ton's battling personality may have
Dorothy Rodham, a Democrat, was
the
advised
again
pregnant while taking PRAVACHOL hazards to
as
to
the
been planted more than 40 years
quieter, softer and more nurturing, but
of
is
excreted
in
human
breast
milk.
Because
of
ursing intents, women taking PRAVACHO should not nurse
ago. Neighbor kids used to taunt little
always stressed that her daughter could
Safety and effectiveness in individuals less than 18 years old
patients less than 18 years old is not recommended at this
Hillary, knock her down and make her
be anything she wanted and never to be
entity well tolerated; adverse reactions have usually been
rolled triels, 7% of pravastatio- patients and 1.2%
cry. One day, she came home again with
reluctant to speak her mind.
m treatment because of adverse experiences attinuted to
Together, her parents raised her to
stically significant. in long- term studies, the most common
tears on her cheeks after being beaten
transaminase Increases and mid, non-specific
the
up. This time was different. Her mother,
have enough self-confidence "so that the
of adverse events in the alderly was
Adverse Clinical Events - All adverse
di
in
Incre of patients in the
Dorothy Rodham, firmly told her to go
inevitable hard knocks of life, which
* below: also shown are the percentages of patients in
related or possibly related to the drug
back out to the street and confront the
come to anybody, can be learning expe-
ents
Events Attributed
bullies, then peeked through the curtains
-riences that make you, in another
to Study Drug
Placebe
Provestatin
to make sure her daughter didn't get
friend's phrase, 'better not bitter,' says
Placebe
411)
(If 900)
411)
hurt.
the grown woman who has taken a lot of
%
Clinton says her mother, who today
knocks.
3.4
0.1
0.0
1.1
1.3
0.9
is in her 70s and lives in Little Rock, al-
Childhood friend Judy Osgood re-
members Hillary Rodham as "less con-
7.1
29
14
ways stressed "being grateful for what
5.6
2.0
1.9
6.9
2.0
3.9
you've got, being empathetic with other
cerned about what I would term the
7.1
2.4
5.1
3.8
27
3.4
people, not getting too big for your
more trivial things - clothes, boys and
1.9
20
0.7
britches, not being someone who as-
hairstyles. She seemed more grown-up."
3.4
19
1.0
sumed life owed you anything because
Some Sunday mornings, the Rod-
1.9
03
0.7
0.0
0.0
you were lucky enough to have parents
hams loaded the car with food and
9.0
1.4
1.5
1.0
0.0
who worked hard and bought a house in
clothes for their children to give to the
0.8
39
1.7"
0.2
a good neighborhood."
down-and-out in Chicago's Skid Row.
3.2
1.0
0.5
During the 1950s, Hillary Diane
"My mother insisted on that because
2.9
0.7
1.2
Rodham grew up in a conservative, up-
you learn values," Tony Rodham says.
6.3
0.0
0.0
4.1
0.1
0.0
per-middle-class Chicago suburb of Park
"She would say that we were blessed by
1.7
0.1
0.0
Ridge, III., a Leave It to Beaver neigh-
having a nice home in the suburbs, but
be.
Vest of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study) (see CLINICAL
borhood with good schools, stay-at-
that we had to help others."
596 patients treated with PRAMACHOL gravestatin sodium)
ent profits in the pravastatin group - comparable to that
home mothers and dozens of ready play-
That outlook was reinforced by
of the study. The following effects have been reported with
mates.
Hillary Rodham's relationship to the
have necessary been associated - pravestation therapy:
dyslunction of certain craniel nerves (including
Her father, Hugh Rodham, was a
Methodist Church, which she described
movement, factal persing tremor, vertigo, memory IDEA,
erve palay, arudety, insortinia, depression.
gruff, hard-working man who ran a plant
as "a religion that called you to partici-
0 has been reported rerely which has included one or more
adams, lupus arythematous-B syndroms, polymyators
that printed and sold drapery fabrics. He
-
pate in the world." At 14, she joined a
thrombocy leukopenia, hemolyte anemia, positive
asthenis, photosensitivity, fovor, chills, flushing,
was a Republican who instilled in his
youth group led by a new young minis-
Every destination holds d
including Stevene Julinson syndroms.
active hepatitis, cholastetic jaundice, latty change
three children the belief that politics was
ter, the Rev. Don Jones of the First
Comfort surrounds you
and hepatoms; anorexia, vointing Stift atopecia,
dryness of stan/mucous membranes, changes
the way to change the world. He loved to
Methodist Church, a man who furthered
contratmoplegia.
gynecoments, loss of libido, erective dysfunction. alevated Ave:
Laboratory
her exposure to the world outside privi-
trains. Time seems suspenc
gather everyone around the dinner table
inibit; thyroid function abnormatises. Laboratory That
- (ALT. AST) values and CPK have been observed (see
and throw out a provocative statement
leged Park Ridge.
America, enjoying sights
a has been reported. Ecainophil counts unitily returned to
leukopente have boon reported with HMS-
for all to debate. A product of the Great
"What struck me about Hillary was
else but the train. Experi
has been administered concurrently with
and
Preliminary
date
-
the
addition
Depression, Rodham also taught his
more her intellectual curiosity and pur-
h lovestatin or pravestatie is not associated with greater
with lovastatin or alone. . adverte reactions
children the value of a dollar and how to
suit but not without an interest in the
Amtrak" Explore Americ
previously reported for each drug alone love been reported.
cute have been reported - another HMG-
Christian faith and spiritual develop-
tour of the country or VL
read newspaper stock tables.
erythromycin,
subtors and these
"We were probably the only family
ment," recalls Mr. Jones, now a profes-
includes up to three stopo:
Muscle and Drug
cases of overdosage will pravestation, both of
in our neighborhood who never received
sor of social ethics at Drew University in
th clinical laboratory abnormaties. If . overdoes occurs, it
Madison, N.J.
in any one region for $15
massures should be instituted as repred.
an allowance," says Tony Rodham,
name without prescription.
Hillary's younger brother, who today is a
Occasionally, Mr. Jones would pile
Reservations - required. Tickets evallable for all
(provastation sodem).
business, political and public relations
the sheltered suburban white kids in a
Rest Class and other eccommodations. Not valid as
consultant in Miami. (Hugh Rodham,
couple of vans and take them to a mod-
en probibited. Children ages 2-15 trovel for bei &
J4-538D
restrictions - Trank - the - segment of
the middle child, is a lawyer in Miami.)
continued on Page 28
Clinton
continued from Page 15
est community center on Chicago's
tough South Side. The outings fright-
ened the Park Ridge teens. But they got
a chance to meet with inner-city Hispan-
ic and black youths, an experience that
changed them forever.
On a Sunday evening in 1962, Mr.
Jones and some parents formed a little
caravan and drove the youth group to
Orchestra Hall on Michigan Avenue in
downtown Chicago to hear the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. preach. From a
pulpit on the stage, the civil rights leader
gave a sermon titled "Sleeping Through
THE
the Revolution."
"In retrospect, it was appropriate for
that group," Mr. Jones remembers.
"That town hardly knew there was the
greatest social revolution taking place."
Afterward, Mr. Jones took the youth
group backstage to meet Dr. King, who
shook hands with young Hillary and
each of her classmates.
As part of a summer vacation Bible
school program, Hillary babysat for the
children of migrant workers who worked
the fields close to the Chicago suburbs.
Later, as a 19-year-old Wellesley College
sophomore, Hillary wrote to Don Jones
about how nice it was to go home for
Thanksgiving, but that she was eager to
return to Boston, where she had been tit
toring poor, black children.
"Even though I enjoy this lovely
respite in Park Ridge, my heart aches for
the poor people who have been op-
pressed and discriminated against in
Boston," she wrote. "And I need to get
back to them."
W
hen Hillary Rodham arrived at
The first lady relaxes on a flight during a 1995 visit to Bangladesh.
Wellesley in the fall of 1965, it
was a very conservative place,
in their caps and gowns marched in to
the art of the possible. Ano
one of the Seven Sisters schools where
hear the invited keynoter, Sen. Edward
now is to practice politic:
young women wore demure, round col-
Brooke, a moderate Republican. But he
making what appears to
lars and obeyed curfews. By the end of
gave a stock graduation speech that in
possible."
Hillary's four years there, Wellesley had
Rodham's mind did not deal with the
One of her classmates,
changed. With the tumultuous events of
turmoil of the day: the Vietnam War, the
Acheson, the granddaughte
the country, the women at Wellesley felt
civil rights movement, the King and
Harry Truman's secretary
freer to challenge the administration,
Kennedy assassinations.
Acheson, recalls that "th
on everything from dress codes to the
Immediately afterward, Rodham
own experience made it a 9
Vietnam War.
went to the podium, and before deliver-
petuous move. But it captu
Hillary changed there, too, shifting
ing her prepared remarks, she an-
that everyone has seen in a
from a conservative Goldwater Girl to a
nounced her decision to challenge
and content-filled role: an
liberal activist who worked on Eugene
Brooke.
or intolerance of people
McCarthy's 1968 bid for the Democrat-
She spoke passionately and without
don't make change for th
ic presidential nomination:
notes for several minutes, stunning the
people."
During her senior year, a group of
audience of 2,000 and attracting nation-
Rodham went on t
students in professor Alan Schechter's
al media attention, including a photo-
School and after graduation
political science class proposed having a
graph in Life magazine.
ton in January 1974 to
student speaker at graduation, a first in
"We've had lots of empathy," she
House Judiciary Committ
Wellesley history. The speaker? Student
told the graduates and guests. "We've
was preparing the impea
body president Hillary Rodham.
had lots of sympathy. But we feel that for
against President Richard
At the commencement, the seniors
too long our leaders have used politics as
was a momentous, histor
28
OCTOBER 6. 1996
working on the Watergate committee
was a coveted post. As a junior attorney,
one of her assignments was to analyze
on
Chicago's
the White House chain of command.
outings fright-
Attorney Fred Altshuler, who
But they got
worked on the Watergate panel and to-
er-city
Hispan-
day practices law in San Francisco, re-
experience that
members Hillary as having "a strong
sense of social justice and a strong sense
in
1962,
Mr.
of one's responsibility as a lawyer, in-
formed
a
little
cluding working to make social problems
outh
group
to
and government problems better."
gan Avenue in
the Rev. Dr.
reach. From a
A
t Yale, Hillary had fallen for a
charming, handsome law student
rights leader
a year behind her in school.
eping Through
When he returned to his home state to
launch a political career, she faced a life-
appropriate for
defining decision: to follow her budding
remembers.
career in Washington, or to follow Bill
there was the
Clinton to Arkansas.
taking place."
It was August 1974. Nixon had re-
took
the
youth
signed, and Rodham knew she could
Dr. King, who
move from the Judiciary Committee to a
Hillary
and
top law firm or go into public-interest
law.
vacation Bible
Instead, she was soon packing her
babysat for the
belongings into the battered Buick of her
rs
who
worked
roommate, Sara Ehrman, who had
icago suburbs.
agreed to drive her to Fayetteville for her
illesley
College
new job as a teacher at the University of
to Don Jones
Arkansas Law School.
go
home
for
The leaves were beginning to turn
was
eager
to
red as they headed the car south through
had
been
tu-
Virginia and the Blue Ridge and into
Tennessee. Along their rollicking road-
this lovely
trip, they shopped for pottery, ate catfish
heart
aches
for
and stopped at fruit stands and historic
been
op-
sites, such as Monticello.
against
in
But the merriment had a sober side,
I
need
to
get
at least for Ehrman.
"I just could not understand how
she could take this turn away from what
lham
arrived
at
The first lady relaxes on a flight during a 1995 visit to Bangladesh.
obviously was going to be a stunning ca-
fall
of
1965,
it
reer," she recalls.
ervative place,
in their caps and gowns marched in to
the art of the possible. And the challenge
Every 20 miles or so, Ehrman would
schools where
hear the invited keynoter, Sen. Edward
now is to practice politics as the art of
stop the car and blurt out: "Are you
round
col-
Brooke, a moderate Republican. But he
making what appears to be impossible
crazy? Why are you doing this? You are
By the end of
gave a stock graduation speech that in
possible."
giving up everything. God knows what's
Wellesley had
Rodham's mind did not deal with the
One of her classmates, Eleanor Dean
going to happen down there."
events
of
turmoil of the day: the Vietnam War, the
Acheson, the granddaughter of President
Rodham told her over and over: "I
Wellesley felt
civil rights movement, the King and
Harry Truman's secretary of state, Dean
love him and I want to give it a chance. I
dministration,
Kennedy assassinations.
Acheson, recalls that "the lack of her
want to be with him."
codes
to
the
Immediately afterward, Rodham
own experience made it a somewhat im-
As they drove into Fayetteville,
went to the podium, and before deliver-
petuous move. But it captures something
Ehrman's doubts deepened. The trees
too, shifting
ing her prepared remarks, she an-
that everyone has seen in a more mature
were golden and the streets were full of
Girl to a.
nounced her decision to challenge
and content-filled role: an unwillingness
Arkansas Razorback football fans
on Eugene
Brooke.
or intolerance of people in office who
screaming: "Sooey, sooey! Pig! Pig! Pig!"
the
Democrat-
She spoke passionately and without
don't make change for the good of the
When Ehrman dropped Rodham
notes for several minutes, stunning the
people."
off, she burst into tears.
a
group
of
audience of 2,000 and attracting nation-
Rodham went on to Yale Law
"I thought, What is this girl going to
Schechter's
al media attention, including a photo-
School and after graduation to Washing-
do? Why is she doing this?" Ehrman re-
posed having a
graph in Life magazine.
ton in January 1974 to work on the
members. "I thought, This guy is smart,
a
first
in
"We've had lots of empathy," she
House Judiciary Committee's staff that
but he is going to be an Arkansas lawyer.
eaker? Student
told the graduates and guests. "We've
was preparing the impeachment case
We will never see her again."
dham.
had lots of sympathy. But we feel that for
against President Richard M. Nixon. It
Ehrman changed her mind the next
the seniors
too long our leaders have used politics as
was a momentous, historic time, and
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THE NEWSPAPER OF CAPITOL HILL SINCE 1955
VOL. 42, NO. 28
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1996
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AN OLD SALT HOPES FOR SMOOTH SAILING
Judge Clears Way
For GOP to Spend
Freely for Senate
By Tim Curran
With Democrats needing a net
In a blow to Democrats as they
gain of only three seats to take back
seek to reclaim control of the Senate
the Senate, the ability of the better-
this fall, a federal district court
funded National Republican Sena-
Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit
torial Committee to funnel an un-
aimed at blocking Republicans from
limited amount of money to races in
making "independent expenditures"
key states as long as it is not co-
on behalf of GOP Senate candidates.
Continued on page 16
More Good News for Republicans
In Topsy-Turvy Massachusetts Race
By Tim Curran
Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
When Phil Johnston took the
and other party leaders, Johnston
stage Friday at a Democratic party
was basking in the glow of his nar-
Photo by Maureen Keating
rally in Quincy, Mass., he was rid-
row win over Norfolk County Dis-
Democrat Joe Brennan has run for everything else in Maine. Now, he's trying for Senate in an open-
ing high.
trict Attorney William Delahunt for
seat contest that is key to the battle for control. For a report from Down East, see POLITICS, p.9.
Flanked by First Lady Hillary
the Democratic nomination to suc-
Revolving Door Quick
House Bids
To Spin for '96 Retirees
Goodbye To
By Juliet Eilperin
away. With 14 Senators and 52
When the House adjourned sine
House Members leaving this year
'Goodtime
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
die at 2:52 p.m. Friday, the bidding
(not to mention those who lose on
began.
Nov. 5), Washington may see a re-
In recent interviews, retiring law-
peat of the last electoral cycle, when
Charlie'
makers from both parties indicated
more than a quarter of the 91 Mem-
they were holding off negotiating
bers who left office registered as lob-
By Ed Henry
agreements with lobbying firms un-
byists once the prohibition ended.
To say that Rep. Charlie Wilson
til Congress adjourned.
Some Members have already fi-
(D-Texas) has uttered some contro-
Now that obstacle is out of the
nalized their plans. Rep. Sam Gib-
versial statements in his day is like
way, and some Members are sure to
bons (Fla), the top Democrat on the
saying that Wilson only kind of had
be importuning the same lobbyists
Ways and Means Committee. is slat-
fun during his 24 years in Congress.
who used to try to cajole them into
ed to join the firms of both his sons
When "Goodtime Charlie" was
passing legislation.
Mark and Cliff, Roll Call has
asked what he thought about the
Though departing Members are
learned.
record number of women who were
prohibited from actively lobbying
Cliff Gibbons is a lobbyist based
elected to Congress in 1992. he
Congress for one year, they may still
in Washington, heading the firm
Photo by Jeffrey Snyder
replied: "I love it. A couple of 'em
join lobbying firms as partners right
Continued on page 18
"He may talk about [women] as if they're chattel, but he treats
are pretty cute."
them like human beings," said Schroeder of Wilson (pictured to-
Then there was Wilson's possibly
gether above; below, Wilson with Afghan rebels in the 1980s).
apocryphal explanation of why he
INSIDE
HEARD
hired so many beautiful women.
"You can teach 'em to type," Wil-
Haley Barbour's
ON THE HILL
son declared, but "you can't teach
'em to grow" breasts.
million-dollar lawsuit,
By Craig Winneker
But as the brash Texan rides off
p. 3.
ello, I Must Be Going.
into the sunset this week - he re-
Dole's last chance:
H
Virginia Sen. John
signed effective Tuesday to get a
Kondracke, p. 6.
Warner (R) is fighting
jump-start on a new lobbying career
hard to keep his Senate seat.
- his Congressional record is win-
Attack of the 'push-
But last Thursday - the Sen-
ning praise from Congress's most
poll' probe, p. 7.
ate's last day in session -
prominent champion of women's
Warner sensed that some of his
rights. Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Colo),
POLITICS
colleagues had already counted
who is also retiring, said, "It's kind
him as a casualty.
of sad" that Wilson is moving on.
The fun started when Warner
"He may talk about [women] as
gave an eloquent tribute on the
if they chattel." Schroeder told
Christian Coalition
Senate floor to retiring Sen.
Roll Call, "but he treats them like
strikes back, p. 9.
James Exon (D-Neb). Exon
human beings."
was so moved that he returned
Wilson calls Schroeder "Con-
The greening of
the favor. The only problem: He
gresswoman Babycakes," but she
(some) GOPers, p. 10.
Continued on page 17
says he has always stood beside her
Continued on page 18
Pa ty's No Over Yet for 'Goodtin e Ch arl'e' W'lso
Continued from page 1
be able to pay for it," he added, refusing to di-
ties end there between the Jewish man from
Wilson was once arrested for driving while
on issues like abortion rights and family leave.
vulge details about potential clients.
New York and the swashbuckler from rural
intoxicated, and he was also fined for leaving
In addition, current and former female staffers
When asked how he has won over feminists
East Texas.
the scene of a car crash in 1983. He was fined
for Wilson say that his behavior toward them
like Schroeder - while cultivating a playboy
"I once went to a fundraiser down there in
$90,000 by the Federal Election Commission
has always been beyond reproach.
image - Wilson said, "I have always be-
his district - Where is it? In Lubbock?
and reprimanded by the House ethics com
But what really sticks with friends like
lieved, and it's just part of my basic commit-
and I said, 'Where's the subway?" Koch said
mittee - last year for misreporting loans
Schroeder is Wilson's candor. They say that in
ment to equality, that women had a ways to
of Wilson's home of Lufkin. "It was like
his campaign.
an age of political correctness, Congress is los-
go before they achieved" equality.
somebody from Mars had gone down there.
"I' always been one who didn' try to pre-
ing a man who had the guts to speak his mind.
Even when he speaks seriously, however,
But I would do anything for Charlie, as he
sent a facade of piety," Wilson told Roll Call.
Schroeder complained that the new breed
the bad boy comes out. "People talk about
would for me."
"And somehow or another it's always sold at
of Members are of "the bland milquetoast"
'Goodtime Charlie' and all his girlfriends and
Koch said that his friend has thrived on be-
home. The people back home have forgiven
variety, who crowd the center of the political
all this stuff," Wilson said. "But as far as I
ing underestimated. "He was Peck's bad boy,"
me for acts that new Members would have
spectrum and "waffle-waffe."
know, there's no women's group that has
said Koch. "But if every Member of Congress
been horrified to have been accused of com-
"The thing I've got to say is that he's not a
passed a resolution that says you can't be a
worked as hard as Charlie, this would be a
mitting. It's always been what you see is what
hypocrite," said Schroeder. "There's so much
good guy unless you go out with ugly women.
much better country."
you get with me."
hypocrisy in this place."
A resolution like that is probably coming, but
Indeed, Wilson has long been a workhorse
He agrees with Schroeder that Members are
"He wasn't concerned about the standards
not yet. I support women's rights, but I also
on defense issues, rising all the way to the top
getting too gun-shy. "The people coming in
of other people or their opinions about his per-
like pretty women."
of the powerful Appropriations foreign oper-
are not like me," Wilson said. "They're more
sonal tastes or private endeavors," former
Indeed, Wilson's career has been marked
ations subcommittee. Wilson used his influ-
conventional and you can see it They' just
House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) said in
by tales of wild romantic adventures.
ence on the panel to dole out pork to his con-
different, and they're less likely to get into
an interview. "He was true to himself."
"He was the one guy who everybody was
stituents and to fund his pet issues around the
some of the scrapes that I've been in. Both
Wright added, "The blow-dried crowd that
jealous of," said former Rep. Bill Sarpalius
world.
sides are very careful about what they say.
comes in with a rehearsed slogan or two, this
(D-Texas). "Nobody loves his country, the
Wilson spent most of the 1980s champi-
They're extremely guarded, and the press is
is antithetical to the genuineness of the per-
state of Texas, and black lace like Charlie Wil-
oning the cause of the Mujahedeen rebels in
part of the problem because they' ve got a laser
sonality of someone like Charlie Wilson
He
son does. And I don't know if you can put
Afghanistan because, he said at the time, "it's
beam on everybody."
was someone you wanted on your side, I don't
those items in any particular order."
the only place in the world where we are
While Wilson admits that he has given his
care if it was a legislative battle or a brawl in
"I've had hysterical moments, but most of
killing Russians." The rebels there still treat
constituents fits, he says "they're no bargain
a back alley."
them can't go into a good, family newspaper
him like a folk hero, and Wilson says now that
either."
It's ironic that Wilson, who has never been
like Roll Call," said Wilson, who is divorced.
he's proud of "my modest part in kicking the
"I sometimes tell my constituents that they
accused of being the first one out the door in
"I'll put them in my book to be published af-
Red Army's ass."
get a lot more than they deserve," said Wil-
all his days of partying, is leaving the 104th
ter my death."
And painting the town is not the only late-
son. "They all want less taxes and more ben-
Congress early. Wilson resigned three months
One episode that has already been revealed
night adventure Wilson will miss about Con-
efits, less regulation but more protection."
before the official retirement of his 52 de-
occurred in 1990, when Wilson arranged a US
gress.
As for the future, he says with theatrical un-
parting House colleagues, and even that deci-
visit for a 24-year-old blonde dancer he had
"I'm going to miss the late-night little vic-
derstatement, "I hope my experience with en-
sion is notable for its frankness.
met in Moscow. Wilson called it "my contri-
tories in conference committees," said Wil-
ergy, military, and foreign affairs issues will
Wilson, who plans to be a lobbyist, has ad-
bution to perestroika." He assured everyone
son. "I'm going to miss the exciting votes on
be worth something to somebody. I've yet to
mitted that he wants to get a head start on his
that the only secrets the dancer brought back
the floor, the excitement of the opening day,
find out if that's the case."
colleagues who also plan to lobby. Since ex-
to Russia were Victoria's, as in goodies from
the State of the Union speeches."
But in a recent private moment, Wilson's
Members can't lobby Congress for one year,
the lingerie shop he visited with her.
Nevertheless, Wilson's wild days had a
trademark swagger was still there. The mo-
leaving early gives Wilson a chance to start
"I remember when we were in Israel to-
price, and he will undoubtedly be remembered
ment came at a farewell party for Sen. Ben-
twisting arms on the Hill in October 1997 in-
gether, it was tough to keep the women away,"
for some of the ugly headlines he has gener-
nett Johnston (D-La).
stead of January 1998.
former New York Mayor Ed Koch said.
ated. During one of his trips to Afghanistan,
An energy lobbyist approached Wilson dur-
In describing his new line of work, Wilson
fact, they didn't stay away."
he was criticized for bringing a former Miss
ing the cocktail reception and thanked him for
shows that he still has a way with words. "I'm
Like Schroeder, Koch is another unlikely
USA on a government plane.
his help over the years. She quickly added,
going to be in town as a person who helps or-
Wilson chum. They hit it off while serving to-
There was the Justice Department's 1983
"You'll still be here, right?"
ganizations with noble causes," Wilson told
gether in Congress from 1973 to 1977. While
investigation into drug use on Capitol Hill.
Wilson replied with a smile, "I'll be here."
Roll Call. He paused.
they both have a knack for saying whatever
Wilson was a target, but he was never charged
Jennifer Bradley and Juliet Eilperin con-
"Hopefully these noble organizations will
comes to mind, Koch says that the similari-
with anything.
tributed to this report.
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PAGE A8 FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1994
The Washington Times
NATION
Big Easy politics
III of Anita Hill fame.
the label "big spender" carries
work elsewhere in government;
In October 1991, Mr. Doggett, a
ready for what is expected to be a
Miss Hill at a Senate Judiciary
close vote in tomorrow's mayoral
Committee hearing, in which she
Inside Politics
some political danger, he also is
four other government workers
As New Orleans voters get
Texas lawyer, testified against
not shy about his commitment to
were moved into the office; Con-
domestic "investments."
gress spent $150,000 for the fired
In a profile of the 76-year-old
workers' legal fees; three gov-
election, they continue to be
accused Clarence Thomas of sex-
after leading opposition to the
ernment probes continue.
subjected to racist and anti-
ual harassment.
balanced-budget amendment, Mr.
"When you add this whole
Semitic leafleting despite clean-
Mr. Doggett, a graduate of Yale
Clymer adds, 'He intimidates on
thing up, it's going to cost hun-
campaign pledges.
Law School, said Miss Hill pur-
the floor. He counts favors care-
dreds and hundreds of thousands
Locked in what the most recent
sued him for dates, and after he
fully. At times he sounds like a
of dollars," said Rep. Frank R.
poll says is a dead heat are Don-
deflected her advances, lectured
one-man committee supervising
Wolf, Virginia Republican. On the
ald Mintz, 50, a Jewish corporate
him about "leading women on."
conduct for this very special
other hand, the White House says
lawyer, and Marc Morial, 36, a
club."
the office now employs four per-
one-term state senator and son of
Feinstein no shoo-In?
Mr. Byrd himself says mem-
sons instead of seven.
the city's first black mayor, the
bers are less than they were: "We
But a number of sources say
Associated Press reports.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Califor-
don't have the same inspiration,
the new travel office is not as ef-
At least four fliers were circu-
nia Democrat, may be in for a
the same goals, the same motiva-
ficient. And no one knows what
lated. One charged Mr. Morial,
race, reports the Christian Sci-
tion. Most important today is the
the cost will be for an investiga-
who is an unwed father, with be-
ence Monitor.
20-second sound bite, making of
tion by the General Accounting
ing bisexual, using drugs and tak-
Although the early outlook was
He told the Associated Press
Just my best side
the headlines.
Office, an internal FBI review
ing kickbacks. Others called
that she would be difficult to
that Mr. Gingrich is not "rep-
"It is not as uplifting as it once
and a Justice Department look at
blacks "jungle apes" and Jews
unseat, the entrance of Republi-
After more than six months of
resenting that district. He's rep-
was."
corruption allegations.
"the curse of the planet."
can Rep. Michael Huffington into
negotiations, Republicans and
resenting himself. He has a
*I don't really think it's more
the race makes the chances of a
Democrats in the House have
power-based national agenda and
Democratic coronation in the fall
he's been ineffectual in his dis-
Aldes In slammer?
vicious than we've seen in other
agreed to dump the wide-angle
Health opposition
races," said Susan Howell, politi-
less automatic.
television shot that reveals that
trict."
Whitewater will embarrass
Further evidence of growing
cal scientist at the University of
"You cannot write this guy off,"
even the members don't show up
A two-term congressman who
President Clinton, cost him some
opposition to the Clinton health
New Orleans. "What makes it ex-
says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a po-
for the local rhetoric.
lost in 1992 after his district was
extra taxes and raise ethical
care proposal:
ceptional is that they signed a
litical scientist at the Claremont
No more will the camera cut
dismantled in reapportionment,
questions about the first lady but
A USA Today-CNN poll shows
pledge to run a clean campaign."
Graduate School. "You can't write
away to reveal an empty chamber
Mr. Jones acknowledged he has a
is unlikely to get much worse
an 11-point drop in support in the
The preliminary results of a
anybody off who has sixteen [mil-
as a fire-breathing member
steep uphill race against Mr.
than that, writes Wall Street Jour-
past month; a Washington Post-
probe by the city's Human Rela-
lion] to eighteen million dollars
pounds the lectern during special
Gingrich. He claimed as well he
nal columnist Albert R. Hunt.
ABC News poll: 80 percent think
tions Commission linked one flier
(to spend). It will make Feinstein
orders. The House, which con-
is a "recovering PAC-alcoholic."
"If the current performance
health care quality will decline
to the Mintz campaign. The day
focus."
trols the cameras, will not feed
Although he accepted support
continues, however, it's less than a
under the Clinton plan; 64 per-
before the Feb. 5 primary, an aide
Mr. Huffington plans to spend
these shots to C-SPAN and others.
from political action committees
long shot bet that one or two
cent thought so in October.
to Mr. Mintz was indicted for dis-
at least $5 million of his money
"Obviously, this is an attempt
in four previous congressional
White House aides could end up
The Department of Health and
tributing one of the fliers.
on the campaign and raise an ad-
by Congress to manage its ap-
campaigns, Mr. Jones says he un-
in the slammer - not for what
Human Services reports that 55
Mr. Mintz denies involvement
ditional $10 million from indi-
pearance," John Jackson, political
derstands "the fleas come with
happened in Arkansas in the
percent of emergency room vis-
with the fliers. He used one at-
viduals. The Monitor says this is
science professor at Southern II-
the dog and if you're going to
1980s, but for the way matters
its are not urgent. Emergency
MARCH 4, 1994 The Washington Times
tacking "bloodsucking Jews" to
twice the amount Mrs. Feinstein
linois University, told the Phila-
take PAC money, you're not going
are being mishandled in Wash-
room visits by the uninsured are
galvanize the Jewish community
spent on the race two years ago.
delphia Inquirer. "But their prob-
to be independent."
ington in the 1990s," Mr. Hunt
absorbed by paying patients. This
in a fund-raising effort that re-
lems go a lot deeper than that."
He said he would not accept
says.
is a key factor in rising health
cerved more than $250,000 from
Baker: Undecided
contributions from PACs and will
One reason for this is that no
costs.
out-of-town contributors.
James A. Baker III, former
Today's quote
challenge Mr. Gingrich to do like-
one has the standing to tell Mr.
"With a majority-black elector-
secretary of state, was asked yes-
wise. His status as a recovering
Clinton how badly it is being
ate, Morial should have an advan-
"This act of evil is not the act
alcoholic was an issue in his first
Stags at bar
terday about running for the
botched. Another is the otherwise
tage," Ms. Howell said. "Instead,
of a people. It's the act of a per-
presidency: "I'll have to tell you
two congressional campaigns.
helpful Hillary Rodham Clinton's
The Utah Legislature passed a
they' neck-and-neck, which
son or persons. Let's show Amer-
Mr. Gingrich told the Atlanta
that while I haven't decided I'm
chilling reaction to controversies
bill to allow the Elks and other
means he has to pull it out, so it's
ica and the world that we can
Constitution that Mr. Jones is "a
going to do it, I haven't decided
involving her conduct.
fraternal organizations to dis-
to his advantage to keep the em-
make that distinction, that we are
very fine spokesman for liber-
"In short," Mr. Hunt concludes,
criminate against women and
phasis on the fliers."
I'm not going to do it."
not only the best of cities, but
alism" and added, "I look forward
In a C-SPAN interview Mr. Ba-
"the first lady needs a Hillary
still hold state liquor licenses.
"The biggest issue here is still
the wisest of cities," said New
to what I hope will be an idea-
Clinton."
The Utah House, in the final
race," she said. "Blacks still tend
ker added, however, that Repub-
York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in
oriented campaign, not a name-
hours of the session that ended
to vote for blacks, whites for
licans make a mistake talking
the aftermath of the shooting of
calling campaign."
Travelgate recalled
Wednesday at midnight, voted
whites. Beyond that, both groups
now about the presidency be-
four Hasidic students.
39-35 to amend the state's Civil
are worried about crime and the
cause it takes the focus off this
'Living history'
It has been nearly a year since
Rights Act to exclude fraternal,
quality of life in the city."
year's elections in which GOP
Gingrich opposition
the wholesale firings at the White
sororal or charitable organiza-
gains are expected.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd is not only
House travel office occurred for
tions from some provisions.
The deadline for deciding? "I
The Doggetts
Former Rep. Ben Jones,
a self-taught historian; he is "a
what the Clinton team described
The Senate passed the bill ear-
think you have to make a decision
"Cooter" in the TV series "The
piece of living history," says the
as economy reasons. It has
lier. GOP Gov. Mike Leavitt would
Teresa Doggett, a Texas Re-
like that by January or February
Dukes of Hazzard," announced he
New York Times.
turned out to cost a bundle.
not say whether he intends to
puplican who's hired political
of 1995. I think that you shouldn't
will seek the Democratic nomina-
Adam Clymer adds that the
The Philadelphia Inquirer
sign, veto or allow the measure to
strategist Ed Rollins to help with
wait any longer than that;
a
tion to oppose House Minority
West Virginia Democrat is a
toted it up: Five of seven employ-
become law without his signa-
her campaign for state comptrol-
lot of the big states are moving
Whip Newt Gingrich in their sub-
throwback to the days of the two-
ees received more than six
ture.
ler, is married to John Doggett
their primaries up."
urban Atlanta district.
hour speech. In an age in which
months of paid leave and now
Compiled by Alan McConagha.
Clinton TV pal Thomason
sued for libel in 'Travelgate'
to do with travel. but he did not
B. Paul Bedard
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
give the president details," accord-
ing to the review:
TV producer and presidential
The White House fired the
pal Harry Thomason is facing an
travel staff but had to rehire and
$80.3 million libel suit for sup-
find new jobs for five of the seven
posedly spreading false charges
workers. The other two remain un-
of wrongdoing against the former
der investigation.
White House press charter oper-
White House Chief of Staff
ator snared in the "Travelgate"
Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty. who
scandal.
co-wrote the Travelgate review.
Charles P. Caudle. former owner
apologized for the firings. saying
of Airline of the Americas (AOA).
they were based OL false claims.
has charged in a suit just trans-
"Thomason should have avoided
ferred here that Mr. Thomason
continued involvement in a matter
persuaded the White House to or-
in which his business partner and
der an FBI probe of the travel of-
his friends in the charter business
fice. The White House fired the
stood to benefit and in which there
seven-person travel staff, then
was an appearance of financial
apologized for acting on false alle-
conflict of interest."
gations.
The Travelgate review says Mr.
In his lawsuit in U.S. District
Thomason in May told Mr Mar-
Court. Mr. Caudle says the false
tins, one of his partners in the
charges of kickbacks and misman-
Harry Thomason has been sued
TRM airline charter firm. to fax to
agement involving his airline and
for $80.3 million in federal court.
the White House a memo on the
the travel office ruined his reputa-
rumored travel office wrongdoing
tion and torpedoed a massive air-
That memo. Mr. Caudle has
line deal he had in the works when
wife. Linda Bloodworth-Thom-
said, ruined his reputation be-
Travelgate became public in May
ason. produce the popular TV sit-
cause it falsely claimed that his
"The damage to my reputation
com Evening Shade' and were be-
airline during the last year of the
continues to taint my reputa-
hind "Designing Women."
Bush administration was investi-
tion and hamper my business ef-
He was assigned by Mr. Clinton
gated by the Federal Election
forts with each and every opportu-
to orchestrate the inaugural gala
Commission. provided free trips
nity I pursue." Mr. Caudle said in a
in January 1993 and stayed on for
in return for pro-Bush press COV
court statement taken this month.
several months conducting some
erage and misstated the size of the
Federal investigations have
of his business from a White
airline.
found no proof of wrongdoing by
House desk
the travel office.
By the time the memo was sent.
Shortly after Mr. Clinton came
Robert S. Bennett, Mr. Thom
Mr. Caudle had sold the airline but
to Washington. Mr. Thomason's
ason's Washington-based attorney:
was working to start GlobAir a
business partner, Darnell Martins,
called the suit frivolous. "Mr.
deal he said soured because of the
asked the producer to determine if
Thomason is confident that his ac-
publication of the memo in news-
tion will be dismissed." Mr. Ben-
an airline chartering firm they and
papers after the firing of the travel
a third partner owned could snag
office.
nett said in court papers.
In a phone interview yesterday:
the lucrative White House press
charter business. The charters are
Despite Mr. Caudle's charges of
Mr. Bennett said Mr. Caudle has no
worth an average of $40,000 a day:
libel against Mr. Thomason, the
case and his suit boils down to
memo was written by Mr. Martins.
greed.
According to a White House re-
never mentioned Mr. Caudle, and
view of the travel office affair. Mr.
"Some guy is trying to get his
was received and provided to the
hands in Thomason's pocket.' said
Thomason and Mr. Martins got no-
press long after Mr. Caudle left
where in discussions with that of
Mr. Bennett. adding that the suit
Airline of the Americas, Mr. Ben-
isn't worth media attention.
fice, which was doing business
nett said.
with Airline of the Americas
The libel suit seeks $80 million
"It's an absolute frivolous
in compensatory damages and
Basing his information on a ru-
case." he said, charging that Mr.
mor, Mr. Thomason "mentioned to
$350.000 in punitive damages.
Caudle's attorney. Douglas E.
the president in late March that he
Kahle. misrepresented Mr. Thom-
Mr Thomason is a friend of
thought there was trouble in the
ason's involvement in the travel of
President Clinton's He and his
White House department having
fice affair.
FRIDAY, MAR( 25.
1994
The Bashington Times
THE
WALL
STREET
JOURN
Travel Office Mess, Other Blunders Hurt
President on Eve of House Budget Vote
By JEFFREY H. BIRNBAUM
And MICHAEL K. FRISBY
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON - Suddenly, President
Clinton is fighting for much more than his
embattled economic program.
After a day of internal finger-pointing
and rumors and denials of a possible
senior-level shake-up. Mr. Clinton is strug-
gling to refocus and regain control of his
beleaguered presidency.
Among other things. the president is in
the extraordinary position, after only
three months in office. of having effec-
tively called the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation down upon himself and his staff in
the flap over the firing of seven employees
of the White House travel office.
Adding to the appéarance of disarray,
the White House reversed itself yesterday
and reinstated five of the seven employees.
placing them on paid leave pending the
outcome of various investigations.
As the administration struggles to right
itself. an early casualty may be Lani
Guinier, Mr. Clinton's choice to be assis-
tant attorney general for civil rights. In an
apparent effort to rid Mr. Clinton of extra
Travel Office Mess,
controversies. White House advisers qui-
etly spread the word that the administra-
Other Blunders Deal
tion lacks the votes to confirm Ms. Guinier.
who has drawn fire for writings suggesting
President Weak Hand
minority groups be given special political
powers to ensure they are represented
adequately in democratic processes.
Continued From Page A3
Meanwhile. Clinton advisers are plot-
future it would be better if the contact were
ting a high-level shake-up of the White
made through the attorney general or the
House staff as a way to break out of its
deputy or the associate (attorney gen-
political torpor. In one scenario, a veteran
eral)." Ms. Reno told reporters. The FBI.
Democrat of national stature would be
the Justice Department and the White
brought in to work with the current chief of
House itself opened inquiries into the
staff. while Mark Gearan. a deputy. would
the White House. that New York attorney
manner in which White House aides by-
be switched to administrative duties. In
Susan Thomases. a confidante of Hillary
passed established procedure to get the
another scenario. Paul Begala. one of the
Rodham Clinton. was deeply involved in
FBI to change its statement to declare that
president's ace political advisers who is
the abrupt dismissal of the officials.
a criminal investigation was warranted in
currently a consultant to the Democratic
Ms. Thomases firmly denied any in-
the travel-office mess.
National Committee. would join the White
volvement. and the offices of both Mrs.
While his administration was strug-
House communications office. while cur-
Clinton and White House Chief of Staff
gling with the problems; President Clinton
rent Communications Director George Ste-
Thomas McLarty dismissed the report.
was doing his best to distance himself from
phanopoulos would take a more strategic
the decision to fire the travel office staff.
The officials who planted the story offered
position.
no evidence to back up their contention.
"The only thing I know. is we made a
Both Mr. Begala and Mr. Stephano-
Further. Democrats have groused
decision to save the taxpayers and press
poulos said they were unaware of any such
changes involving them. But aides de-
about the damage to Mr. Clinton's image
money. That's all I know," the president
from his association with Hollywood stars,
told reporters.
scribe Mr. Clinton as furious over staff
such as his pal Harry Thomason. The
He referred all further questions to Mr.
stumbles that have damaged him politi-
cally on the eve of the House vote on his
television producer who has been in the
McLarty, who has assumed responsibility
thick of the travel-office fiasco, works and
for the mess, and who, incongruously, also
embattled deficit-reduction program.
makes telephone calls out of space in the
was named to head the internal White
Another possible change would alter
White House's East Wing during his fre-
House investigation. Assisting him will be
the assignment of. and perhaps demote.
quent visits.
Budget Director Leon Panetta.
David Watkins. the director of administra-
Meanwhile. the White House found
On Capitol Hill. congressional Republi-
tion who oversaw the travel office. Though
cans continued to attack the White House
itself called on the carpet by its own
Mr. Watkins is close to the many Arkan-
attorney general. Janet Reno. over how it
for appearing to use the FBI for political
sans who have senior positions in the
handled its dealings with the FBI. The
purposes.
White House. he is also seen as not protect-
-Joe Davidson contributed to this arti-
attorney general complained to White
ing the president from the travel office
cle.
House counsel Bernard Nussbaum that the
scandal.
direct contacts were inappropriate and
A further sign of the dismay and disar-
should have gone through one of the top
ray was a new outbreak of blame-monger-
three Justice Department officials on in-
ing over just who was responsible for the
vestigative matters.
firing of the travel aides. There were leaks
When I heard about the situation. I
from at least one senior White House
called the White House and I said in the
political official. and from others outside
Please Turn to Page A10. Column 5
Anyone remember Travelgate?
By Mark R. Levin
Office (including firing career
could interfere with the investiga-
employees and hiring Mr. Clinton's
tion." All records were withheld.
"The Freedom of Information Act
cousin, Ms. Cornelius).
On June 23, 1993, a FOIA
has been one of the primary
Given the revelations in the White
request was filed with the FBI. On
means by which members of the
House's review and the failure of Mr.
June 29, 1993, the FBI acknowl-
public inform themselves about
McLarty and Mr. Panetta to follow
edged receipt of the request. In a
their government.
Federal
up on critical leads including fail-
follow-up call to the FBI on July 1,
departments and agencies should
ing to carefully and thoroughly
1993, it was learned that the FBI
handle requests for information in
question Mrs. Clinton about her
would not even address the request
a customer-friendly manner. The
involvement -Landmark Legal
for "more than a year" due to a
use of the Act by ordinary citizens
Foundation undertook its own fact-
backlog of FOIA cases. This was
is not complicated, nor should it be.
gathering effort through the Free-
confirmed in a letter from the
The existence of unnecessary
dom of Information Act (FOIA).
senior FBI official on Aug. 16, 1993,
bureaucratic hurdles has no place
Since June 1993 - that's nine
in which the FBI added that "[i]n
in its implementation.
months - Landmark's requests to
order to reduce unnecessary cor-
"I
call upon all federal depart-
the FBI, IRS and Justice Depart-
respondence, we will notify you
ments and agencies to renew their
ment for information relating to the
only after the processing of your
commitment to the Freedom of
Travel Office scandal have been
request has been partially or fully
Information Act, to its underlying
denied or otherwise thwarted.
completed." In other words, don't
principles of government openness,
Indeed, not a single piece of paper
call us, we'll call you (in a year).
and to its sound administration."
from any of these agencies has been
On June 23, 1993, a FOIA
William J. Clinton
released. Here are some details:
request was filed with the Justice
Memorandum for Heads of
On June 18, 1993, a FOIA
Department. The request covered,
Departments & Agencies
request was filed with the IRS. An
in part, any information about the
Oct. 4, 1993
IRS attorney responded on July 8,
Travel Office located in the offices
1993, by writing that "[y]our
of Attorney General Janet Reno and
U
infortunately, like so much
Associate Attorney General Web-
that comes out of this admin-
ster Hubbell. Last month, Land-
istration, the president's pub-
Since June 1993
mark learned from Justice that the
lic statement about his "commit-
department had identified and
ment" to open government does not
that's nine months -
gathered about a one-foot-high
comport with the actions of his sub-
stack of documents that were
ordinates.
Landmark's requests
responsive to the nine-month-old
Remember the White House Trav-
to the FBI, IRS and
FOIA request. When asked if those
el Office affair? The Clinton admin-
documents would be released in
istraton is hoping you don't. Lest you
forget, the scandal involved the
Justice Department for
the near future, a Justice official
advised that "consultations" with
wholesale firing of career employ-
information relating to
the offices of Ms. Reno and Mr.
ees; the hiring of Clinton cousin
Hubbell were required before any
Catherine Cornelius to run the office;
the Travel Office
information would be released, and
terminating UltrAir (an airline char-
the official refused to give us a firm
ter service and long-time contractor
scandal have been
date for a decision.
to the Travel Office): a sudden audit
denied or otherwise
This is what passes for "open-
of UltrAir by the IRS; an effort to
ness" in government and "sound
replace the former charter service
thwarted..
administration" in the Clinton
with TRM (an air service owned, the
White House. In truth, this is old-
substantial part, by Clinton friend
fashioned stonewalling. But seri-
and Hollywood producer Harry
request appears to be asking for the
ous questions remain about Mrs.
Thomason); the pressuring of an FBI
tax returns or return information of
Clinton's possible involvement in
official by William Kennedy. associ-
another taxpayer. We are prohibit-
this scandal, including whether her
ate White House counsel (and Mrs.
ed by law from making such infor-
peculiar interest in the Travel Office
Clinton's friend and colleague from
mation public."
was driven by her friend Harry
Rose Law Firm days) to initiate a
What? There was no request for
Thomason's efforts to remove a
criminal investigation of the Travel
any such thing. Requested was,
competitior, and whether her friend
Office; and so forth.
among other things, evidence of
and former Rose Law Firm col-
When this scandal first broke in
any communication between the
league William Kennedy was pres-
May 1993, Mr Clinton appointed his
White House and the IRS regarding
suring the FBI at Mrs. Clinton's
chief of staff, Mack McLarty; and
UltrAir. This was made clear
suggestion (or whether he informed
OMB director, Leon Panetta, to con-
through several follow-up calls to
her of his highly irregular discus-
duct an "internal management
the IRS attorney ard even a con-
sions with the FBI).
review;" which they completed on
versation with her supervisor. For
If there was no wrongdoing in the
July 2, 1993. The review raised many
the past six months, the IRS has not
White House's handling of the Trav-
more questions than it answered.
even bothered returning telephone
elgate matter, as Messrs. McLarty
Most important, it revealed Mrs.
calls, and no information has been
and Penetta assert in their report,
Clinton's personal involvement in
forthcoming from that agency.
it is difficult to understand the
the affair. For instance, the review
On June 18, 1993, a FOIA
administration's absolute refusal to
discloses that on May 13, 1993, Mrs.
request was filed with the criminal
release any information to the pub-
Clinton made inquiries about the
division of the Justice Department.
lic nine months after the event. The
office to both Mr. McLarty and the
On June 28, 1993, an attorney there
president or Ms. Reno can and
late deputy White House counsel,
informed us that a search would be
should order the release of this
Vincent Foster. On May 27, 1993,
conducted. On August 12, 1993, a
information today.
Mrs. Clinton also received a mem-
senior official in the criminal division
Now, in the midst of the White
orandum from David Watkins, an
wrote "[w]e have conducted a search
House damage control effort in
assistant to Mr. Clinton, detailing
and identified records within the
Whitewater, the Clintons are
actions that the staff had taken as
scope of your request in the posses-
promising full cooperation with
well as future plans for the Travel
sion of the Public Integrity Section.
investigators. Let us hope that this
Those records are part of an open
latest pledge is more serious than
Mark R. Levin is Director of Legal
investigation being conducted by
the president's earlier commitment
Policy at Landmark Legal Founda-
that office. We have been informed
to FOIA and the "principles of gov-
tion.
that the release of these documents
ernment openness."
The Washington Times FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1994
110
WEDNESDAY. MAY 26. 1993
LOS ANGELES TIMES / WASHINGTON EDITION
White House to
/
Run Own Probe
of Travel Firings
By PAUL RICHTER
and RONALD OSTROW
Al
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
WASHINGTON-The White
House, in one more attempt to
quell the furor over changes in its
travel office staff. announced
Tuesday it will investigate the role
of its own officials in the affair and
restore pay and benefits. at least
temporarily, for five of the seven
employees dismissed on misman-
agement charges.
"Clearly. we did not handle this
as we would have liked. and we're
going to do better." said George
Stephanopoulos. the White House
communications director. The in-
vestigation will be overseen by
White House Chief of Staff Thomas
(Mack) McLarty and Office of
Management and Budget Director
Leon E. Panetta. he said.
Officials also attempted to end
criticism that the White House had
broken its own rules by contacting
the FBI on the case without going
through senior Justice Department
officials. White House Counsel
Bernard Nussbaum insisted offi-
cials had broken no "policy. proce-
Please see TRAVEL. A7
10F2
114
LOS ANGELES / WASHINGTON EDITION
WEDNESDAY. MAY 26. 1993
TRAVEL: Inquiry
White House Travel Troubles
The Administration gives this sequence of events on the White House
travel office.
by White House
Feb. 15: A 25-year-old cousin of Clinton told White House
administrator David Watkins about
"questionable practices." and wrote a
Continued from A1
missed."
memo calling for the firing of the
dure or other requirement" be-
"The question is whether the
seven employees. After the firing, she
cause the case dealt with "internal
people who were hurt did anything
was put in charge of travel
White House security."
to merit it." Stephanopoulos said.
coordination.
Nonetheless. citing the wishes of
"We'll just have to see.'
May 10: Hollywood producer and
Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and White
Stephanopoulos said the five
Clinton friend Harry Thomason told
House officials to avoid "any possi-
now on leave are the junior mem-
Watkins about complaints that the
ble appearance of impropriety,"
bers of the staff. who did not have
travel office was not allowing
Nussbaum said that from now on
"signatory authority" like their
competitive bidding on charter
officials will contact one of the top
superiors. Billy R. Dale and Gary
business. A memo by a Thomason
three Justice Department officials
Wright. If they are cleared by the
business associate. Darnell Martens.
before approaching the FBI.
current FBI investigation. they
that appears to solicit charter business
Despite the White House state-
could become eligible for federal
was faxed to the White House.
ments. Republican leaders re-
jobs in some other part of the
May 12: Watkins brought concerns
Harry Thomason
newed their call for a full Justice
government. Stephanopoulos said.
of mismanagement to associate White
Department investigation. and Sen.
All seven have denied wrongdoing.
House counsel Bill Kennedy. a former law partner of First Lady
Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.).
Stephanopoulos acknowledged
Hillary Rodham Clinton. Watkins has ties to World Wide Travel.
chairman of the Senate Judiciary
that White House officials had
After the firings, he was given control of the office, but the White
Committee. called the affair an
made "a mistake" in distributing
House reversed itself amid the uproar and severed the relationship.
"amateur hour" involving "rook-
last Friday as a press release a
May 13: Kennedy brought the allegations to Frederick Verinder.
ies."
letter from the FBI that confirmed
deputy assistant director of the FBI. Kennedy wanted advice on how
The flap at first seemed likely to
the agency was conducting a crim-
to proceed. Also. the White House brought in auditors to review the
be a minor one. When White House
inal investigation.
travel office's books.
officials announced the dismissals
Nussbaum's assertion that White
May 15: An outside auditing firm spent six hours reviewing the
House officials were free to contact
office's books. The FBI also was called in again and determined
the FBI directly on "internal secu-
"there was a reason to go forward." according to spokesman George
Rather than 'an attempt
rity" questions did not seem borne
Stephanopoulos.
out by a statement of Administra-
to inappropriately
May 19: The White House announced the firings, saying the FBI
tion policy contained in a letter
was asked to investigate. Thomason stood in the back of the briefing
influence an
sent Monday by Philip B. Hey-
room when spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers made the announcement.
mann. the deputy attorney gener-
investigation, it seems
al-designate.
May 21: As the controversy intensified. Stephanopoulos held an
what we have here are
In a letter to Biden. Heymann
informal meeting "to figure out where we were." An FBI agent
wrote that it was Reno's view that
attended the Friday meeting and was asked to release a statement
rookies on the beat.'
"in the matter of any pending
saying a criminal investigation was warranted. The statement was
Department of Justice investiga-
issued later in the day.
SEN. JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. (D-DEL.)
tion or criminal or civil case. only
May 25: The White House announced an internal review of the
the White House Counsel's Office
travel office firings and backed off its original statement that seven
May 19. citing bad record-keeping
[with the exception of the Presi-
employees were dismissed. It said five were actually on
dent and vice president) should
"administrative leave."
and possible criminal infractions.
initiate contact with the Depart-
they said their goal was to improve
ment of Justice
These initial
Source Times staff and wire reports
service and save money for the
contacts should be only with the
press and White House staff.
attorney general or the deputy
whose travel the employees ar-
attorney general or the associate
something they were trying to
vestigation." Biden said. "it seems
ranged.
attorney general."
bring to the attention of the FBI."
what we have here are rookies on
But criticism grew with disclo-
Later in the letter. Heymann
Meanwhile. the FBI said it is
the beat."
sures that a distant cousin of Clin-
stated: "The attorney general's
conducting its own internal review
Clinton. meanwhile. continued to
ton's. Catherine Cornelius. was
goal is to insulate the
attor-
of how it responded to the White
keep a careful distance from the
named to head a reorganized travel
neys and division chiefs from any
House allegations of criminal ac-
affair. insisting he had little knowl-
office. and disclosures that the
effort. however well-intended. by
tivity at the travel office. The
edge of what his subordinates had
firings followed a complaint from
persons outside the Department of
review, which is to be completed
done. "I had nothing to do with any
the President's friend. Harry Tho-
Justice to influence their actions."
by the end of the week, is intended
decision. except to try to save the
mason, who has an interest in a
On Monday. Reno called Nuss-
to help the agency answer ques-
taxpayers and the press money."
firm that does work for airline
baum to register her concern about
tions from Reno and Congress.
he said during a Tuesday photo
charter companies. Thomason has
the contacts with the FBL But a
Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.). the
session at the White House. "Any
denied that he would reap any
Justice Department spokesman.
Senate minority leader. called on
other questions. I'll just refer you
financial benefit.
Carl Stern. insisted Reno had done
Biden to conduct hearings into the
to Mr. McLarty."
Stephanopoulos said the five
so not out of any concern for
affair. citing a "potentially serious
Later Tuesday, he said: "There's
employees have not, in effect. been
Administration rules but because
abuse of power" by the Clinton
nothing funny going on here. We
rehired. Rather. he said. their ad-
"she was very wary about the
Administration. "It takes you back
really were trying to save money
ministrative leaves were being in-
White House calling the FBI on
to Watergate."
for everybody."
definitely extended. with full pay
anything-without going through
But Biden said he had no plans to
And some White House aides
and health benefits. That explana-
her."
hold such hearings because he was
were confessing their frustrations.
tion differed in a key way from that
Asked about Nussbaum's de-
confident that Reno's complaint to
"It's very dispiriting.' said one.
given last week by White House
fense. Stern said: "Technically,
Nussbaum would avert any future
"I'm really bummed out by the
Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers.
that's correct. In theory this was
problems. Rather than "an attempt
whole thing. I wish we could figure
who said all seven had been "dis-
not a pending investigation. It was
to inappropriately influence an in-
out how to get it behind us."
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the firings and then was put in
charge of the office.
5 cleared of wrongdoing
Two of the employees since
have retired and the other five
in travel office inquiry
were un-fired a week after
BY RANDY LILLESTON
Democrat-Gazette Washington Bureau
the original firings. They have
been on administrative leave,
<n>
with pay, since that time.
WASHINGTON The Jus-
We see no additional obsta-
tice Department has cleared
five former employees of the
cles now to full-time employ-
White House travel office of
ment, White House press sec-
any wrongdoing in the contro-
retary Dee Dee Myers said
versy that engulfed the office
Thursday. However, the five
earlier this year.
will not be offered positions in
the travel office, she said. In-
The five were among seven
stead, they will be offered
travel office employees fired
in May after White House offi-
posts in other federal agencies
cials claimed financial irregu-
at equivalent pay.
Several of the five had hired
larities in the way the office
handled business. The office is
lawyers after the firings, al-
responsible for booking flights
though the employees serve at
for White House officials and
the pleasure of the president
and can be terminated without
arranging charters for the me-
cause. When asked if there was
dia covering the president; the
charters are paid by the news
any prospect that the legal
costs of the five would be reim-
organizations going along on
bursed, Myers said, Not that I
trips.
know of.
The firings turned into a ma-
jor controversy in the White
Myers noted that the Justice
Department had not ended its
House when it subsequently
was discovered that:
investigation of the travel of-
<SBULL><n>White House attorneys
fice, but simply had cleared
pushed the Federal Bureau of
the five former employees of
Investigation to confirm a
any wrongdoing.
criminal investigation into the
The travel office contro-
office.
versy has been a continuing
source of embarrassment and
<SBULL><n>Longtime Clinton friend
and Hollywood producer
pain for the Clinton adminis-
Harry Thomason, who is part
tration. White House chief of
owner of an air charter com-
staff Thomas F. Mack
pany, had inquired about the
McLarty issued a report July 2
media charters and had
that showed a wide variety of
pushed for an investigation.
questionable contacts, particu-
<SBULL><n>Catherine Cornelius, a
larly the White House coun-
distant relative of Clinton's
sel's contact with the FBI. The
who had been in charge of ar-
controversy surrounding that
ranging media charters during
contact, and the subsequent
last year's presidential cam-
negative publicity it caused for
paign, had been put into the
the counsel's office, has been
office in February, had gath-
listed as a possible factor in
ered documents used to justify
the suicide July 20 of Vincent
Foster Jr., White House deputy
counsel
124
THE WASHINGTON Post
SATURDAY. JULY 3. 1993
Clinton Friends Cited
In Travel Staff Purge
Report Says First Lady Monitored Actions
Republican leaders dismissed
By Ann Devroy
the internal review as a "white-
Washington Post Staff Writer
wash." Sen. Christopher S. Bond
The White House report on
(R-Mo.) joined with Senate Mi-
the firing of its travel office staff
nority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-
offers a detailed portrait of po-
Kan.) and Sen. Trent Lott (R-
litical favoritism. spurred by
Miss.) in calling for an indepen-
Harry Thomason. the movie pro-
dent investigation by a counsel
ducer friend of the Clintons. and
appointed by the attorney gen-
monitored by the First Lady.
eral.
White House Chief of Staff
"The White House mistakes
Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty re-
were not just incompetence
leased the report during a news
made from inexperience," Bond
conference in which he apologized
said. "They were serious ethical
to the travel office employees
violations made from poor eth-
fired in May for unfair and insen-
ical judgment."
sitive treatment and said five who
In his press briefing, McLarty
had no financial or management
portrayed the episode as an ex-
roles would be reinstated in gov-
ample of poor judgment. But the
emment jobs. McLarty said he
report and documents seem to
had reprimanded four White
indicate favoritism and self-in-
House aides who handled the sit-
terest at work.
uation, but none lost their jobs.
In the documents, campaign
ranks or pay.
aide and distant Clinton cousin
McLarty concluded the firings
Catherine A. Cornelius, who was
were prompted by a desire to
appointed to run the travel office
rectify dismal financial manage-
after the firings, is portrayed as
ment in the travel office, not to
strongly coveting the job from
provide jobs and business for
the time of the transition. She
friends of the administration.
was placed in the office by White
"We did the right thing but did it
House director of administration
in the wrong way," he said. The
David Watkins before the White
travel office workers are paid by
House discovered any evidence
the government to coordinate
of financial mismanagement.
media travel on presidential
The report recounted how
trips.
See TRAVEL, A8, Col. 1
White House Rebukes 4
On Travel Staff Shake-Up
Report Is Strikingly Self-Critical on Dismissals
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, July 2 - The White
House press corps.
House today issued a strikingly self-
The report said Mrs. Clinton strongly
critical report that faulted the behavior
supported the original investigation
of one of its authors and rebuked four
into management of the travel office
other officials for the dismissals of the
and was informed by memorandum,
White House travel staff last May. The
two days before the President was in-
four were reprimanded for improperly
formed, that the seven members of the
dismissing the staff members, for ap-
travel staff were going to be dismissed
pearing 10 pressure the F.B.I. and for
on May 19.
permitting a friend of President Clin-
Little Mention of Clinton
ton's to become involved in a matter in
which he had a financial stake.
The report was published six weeks
The 80-page report on the travel of-
after the White House publicly humili-
fice affair, which paralyzed Mr. Clin-
ated the seven travel aides by announc-
ton's staff for a week in May, also
ing their summary dismissals, claim-
disclosed that Hillary Rodham Clinton
ing it had evidence of gross misman-
had taken a personal interest in accu-
agement and hinting that some of the
sations of mismanagement at the of.
staff might have been involved in crim-
fice, which handles the itineraries of
inal activity. Over the course of several
White House officials and the White
embarrassing days, the White House
was forced to retreat, rehire five of the
seven and investigate its own actions.
The report made no significant men-
tion of Mr. Clinton, although he had
earlier accepted ultimate responsibil-
ity for the affair. The White House
Chief of Staff, Thomas F. McLarty 3d,
who wrote the document with Leon E.
Panetta, the budget director, assumed
the overall management responsibility
for the dismissals, which he said he did
without first notifying the President. It
was not clear what input, if any, the
President or Mrs. Clinton had in subse-
quent decisions. The report suggests
that they had none.
It concludes that Mr. McLarty and
the White House Counsel's office had
"the opportunity to contain the mo-
mentum" of the travel office affair as
it ballooned "but did not take adequate
advantage of this opportunity."
The release of the report in the White
House press room made for an extraor-
dinary session of reprimand, self-criti-
cism and confession by officials of the
Clinton White House. Appearing sub-
dued and contrite, Mr. Panetta and Mr.
McLarty were blunt in admitting mis-
takes. But they stopped short of admit-
ting that any staff members had lied or
that more than just "appearances" of
impropriety, cronyism and pressure
Continued on Page 6, Column 1
THE NEW YORK TIMES
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1993
White House Is Sharply Self-Critical on Travel Staff Shake-Up
Continued From Page I
report by the accounting firm Peat
Marwick found. mismanagement, it
tactics had been Involved - even
Travel Office Report at a Glance
"did not furnish sufficient evidence for
though the report Itself suggests evi-
terminating" the five employees who
dence of both.
Highlights of the White House report on the dismissals
ha
had no financial authority in the office.
staff In May.
And the report said that the two em-
'Mistakes Were Made'
ployees who did have such authority
There were no criminal violations
should have received a full explanation
WHAT THE TRAVEL OFFICE DID WRONG
involved here." Mr. Panetta said.
for their termination, evidence of
Mistakes were made - mistakes of
Inadequately documented
wrongdoing and an opportunity to re-
Inadequately controlled cash
spond.
judgment, mistakes of inexperience
and checks.
bills:
Second, an associate White House
that included Inappropriate actions
counsel, Mr. Kennedy, called the F.B.I.
with respect to the F.B.I., allowing the
Billed press corpe according
Had no world contract with
to seek guidance on how to look into an
appearance that personal Interest and
to cost estimates, not exact
the sintine company
Internal security matter of this nature.
favoritism could play a role in manage-
prices.
When the F.B.I. did not respond quickly
ment decisions, and unfair treatment
enough to satisfy Mr. Kennedy, he con-
of White House employees."
tacted several F.B.I. officials and "ap-
WHAT WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS DID WRONG
The only punishments meted out to
pears to have made statements con-
the four White House employees held
veying urgency and high levels of
Dismissed travel office
responsible for those mistakes were
Left the Impression that
White House interest," the report said.
letters of reprimand: there will be no
employees without notice
friends of the President who had
loss of pay.
without a chance to defend
a financial stake in the
According to Jim Bourke, the Chief
of the F.B.I.'s Special Inquiry Unit,
The Senate Republican leader, Bob
themselves and without giving
Investigation of the office were
"Kennedy said that he needed to hear
Dole of Kansas, criticized that disci-
adequate reasons
allowed to Influence decisions
from Bourke within the next 15 min-
pline as too mild, saying. "Somebody
utes and that If the F.B.I. were unable
ought to be more than just reprimand-
Left the appearance of putting
Impropertly hired a company
to provide guidance, Kennedy might
ed."
pressure on the F.B.I. by
that had had financial
have to seek guidance from another
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1993
The four reprimanded White House
improperty consulting the
relationships with the Clinton
agency, such as the I.R.S.," the report
employees were: David Watkins, di-
rector of administration and manage-
bureau
campaign and with Clinton
said.
This would not have been justified,
ment; William Kennedy, an assistant
Administration officials to take
the report said, and "could have been
White House counsel; Jeff Eller, direc-
over the travel office
Interpreted as an ultimatum, even If
tor of media affairs: and Catherine
that was not Intended."
Cornelius, the current head of the trav-
el office.
Insensitivity Alleged
Ms.' Cornelius, a 25-year old distant,
clates of his in the airline Industry
sult in savings for taxpayers and the
cousin of Mr. Clinton, will be re-
The report also said It was a mistake
were not able to bid on White House
traveling press.
assigned to another job. Mr. McLarty
for the White House communications
said. At Mr. Watkins's behest, Ms. Cor-
business. The report said that this
"This was an area where they had
office to disclose publicly that the
"clearly extended beyond what he was
unaccounted-for funds almost totaling
nelius copied and smuggled documents
F.B.I. was examining possible criminal
originally asked to do" and that he and
$18,000," Mr. Panetta said. "There was
out of the travel office in the process of
behavior in the travel office, since it is
his friends "stood to benefit" from a
no formal financial reporting process,
building a case against the seven old
standing F.B.I. policy not to confirm or
employees, the report said. After the
reorganization of the office.
no reconciliation of financial informa-
deny such investigations.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
dismissals, she was put in charge of the
Mr. McLarty personally apologized
tion, no documented system of checks
to the seven travel office employees for
and balances on transactions and ac-
In addition, the report said, an "ap-
office.
dismissing them without appropriate
counting decisions within the office."
pearance of impropriety" was created
Producer's Role Questioned
sensitivity or care. He said that the five
Today's report stopped short of ex-
when the White House brought the
The report also questioned the role
who were not involved with financial
onerating any of the dismissed staff
F.B.I.'s spokesman, John Collingwood,
played by Harry Thomason, the Holly-
transactions in the office would be re-
members, noting that the F.B.I. investi-
to a White House communications
wood producer and close friend of the
turned to Government jobs and re-
gation was continuing. The agency has
meeting to discuss issuing an F.B.).,
Clintons with his own White House
assigned to other departments.
said It found no evidence of criminal
press release saying that criminal
pass, who was advising the White
Despite the myriad missteps by the
wrongdoing.
wrongdoing was possible at the travel
House on staging Presidential events.
White House, Mr. McLarty and Mr.
The report divides the White House's
office.
Out of concern for the President, the
Panetta insisted that the basic reason
missteps Into several areas. First, It
Finally, the report says, White House
report said, Mr. Thomason took It upon
for their looking into the travel office in
said, "the abrupt manner of dismissal
officials took "several actions that
himself to look Into the affairs of the
the first place was valid, and that new
of the travel office employees was un-
demonstrated an Insensitivity to the
travel-office and to question why asso-
procedures instituted there would re-
necessary and Insensitive." While a
appearance of favoritism."
SUNDAY. JULY 4. 1993
THE WASHINGTON POST
July 4: America and South Africa
P
RESIDENT Clinton travels today to the
be invited to an American shrine to receive a medal
birthplace of American democracy to award
of freedom. Mr. Mandela, who spent much of his
the Philadelphia Liberty Medal to two de-
adult life locked away as a political prisoner be-
serving men from South Africa. It is a moment of
cause of his resistance to legal segregation, will
deep resonance. As Americans observe their own
share the honor with someone who was elected
Independence Day, it is fitting to honor another
president with formidable credentials for protect-
revolution that is underway in a distant land.
ing the very foundations of apartheid.
As the United States took a historic step 217
But more than Mr. Mandela's triumph over
years ago through a declaration of explicit princi-
oppression and imprisonment is being celebrated
ples, so it is that South Africa is now evoking
today. Nor should Mr. de Klerk's presence at
similar considerations of individual worth and
Independence Hall be treated as part of some
dignity to draw the curtain on centuries of
delicate diplomatic balancing act. South Africa is on
oppression and authoritarian rule. Next year,
the verge of fashioning a new political order with
that long-suffering nation will hold its first uni-
values and rights that, in many respects, echo our
versal election. It will be an occasion when skin
own. These two South African leaders, with much
color no longer defines the condition for receiv-
sacrifice, have brought their racially stratified na-
ing the rights and benefits of citizenship. Our
tion to that promising point.
national day is exactly the right occasion to link
If, as now seems likely, Mr. Mandela and a
South Africa's passage to our own.
nonracial coalition will be the victors in South
It adds to the allure of the Fourth of July that this
Africa's coming elections, then he will join Presi-
nation can pay tribute to two men who have
dent Clinton in assuming official responsibility for
contributed to a historic turn in South Africa:
governing a society still burdened by racial dis-
African National Congress President Nelson Man-
parities and inequality. Mr. Clinton acknowledged
dela and President Frederik W. de Klerk. There
as much by saying in his Independence Day procla-
are some Americans, a few perhaps, who cannot
mation that the United States' own mission is "far
understand how two people who for so long were
from complete." Those words bind America and
on the opposite sides of racial apartheid could both
South Africa to a common ground.
The Travel Office Report
T
HE WHITE HOUSE travel office scandal,
the vice president's National Performance
on which the administration has now issued
Review," the administration's heavily advertised
a report, was a case in which, in part
effort to "reinvent government."
because some aides were interested in the jobs and
That's the wrong thing in the wrong way. White
others in the business, the administration cleaned
House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty announced that
out the loosely run travel office, firing all seven
four White House aides, including the one who did
career employees. When the firing was disclosed,
the firing and the one who sought to run the travel
the press secretary said that it had occurred after
office, had been reprimanded; that the travel office
an accounting firm found "gross mismanagement,"
aspirant was being reassigned; that new rules had
"shoddy accounting practices" and "many discrep-
been issued regarding contact with the FBI (and
ancies" in the accounts of the in-house travel
IRS) to prevent even the appearance of their
agency and that the FBI was investigating. A few
political manipulation; and that a review was under-
days later some senior White House aides called in
an FBI official to "clarify" a press release so that it
way of the issuance of White House passes. He also
matched the White House explanation. One of the
apologized to the seven employees for the fact that
aides who wanted and got the job of running the
their firings had been "publicly connected by the
reconstituted travel office was a distant presiden-
White House with an FBI inquiry" and said that
tial cousin. One of the people inquiring about the
new jobs were being found for five. The travel
travel office business was a presidential friend with
office will meanwhile still be reorganized.
a White House pass and the apparent run of the
The question the critics instantly asked was
White House, who turned out himself to have an
whether reprimands were enough. Was the presi-
interest in a travel company.
dent's staff merely slapping itself on the wrist, etc?
Friday's report suggested further that Mrs.
Wrong question. The serious punishment in this
Clinton on several occasions inquired about and/or
case has already been administered-to the admin-
was kept informed of the progress in taking over
istration at large, in terms of image and reputation.
the office. and that the official who did the actual
The issue is whether the folks in the White House-
firings proposed at one point that the press secre-
senior as well as junior-have learned from that.
tary describe them as having been "the result of
Future behavior is how you'll be able to judge.
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Wednesday, July 7 editions:
EDITORIAL
TRAVELGATE' FIASCO
Lesson learned
THE timing of the holiday weekend release of a lengthy internal
report highly critical of how members of the Clinton administra-
tion mishandled the abrupt firing in May of seven White House
travel office employees could not have been better.
Indeed, whether it was planned that way or not, the embarrassing
wrap-up to what became known as the "travelgate" affair was all
but lost in the midst of the long Independence Day weekend. Given
the disproportionate attention the travel office flap garnered in
the first place, few would disagree that a somewhat inconspicuous
conclusion was fitting.
After all, the problem with the travel office fiasco was that it
became in short order a public relations disaster for the new ad-
ministration. The 80-page report confirmed what everyone suspected
from the beginning: that the White House staff jumped to unwar-
ranted conclusions about the operations of the travel office and
then compounded the crror by trying to manufacture evidence of
wrongdoing.
"There was good business and good government justification to im-
plement some prompt changes in the travel office, but, to our re-
gret, we erred in implementing these needed changes,' is how
White House chief of staff Thomas ''Mack'' McLarty put it. ' 'We
did the right thing, but we clearly did it the wrong way.
To begin with, the internal report found, the initial investiga-
tion into the travel office began with a complaint from Hollywood
bigwig and "Friend of Bill'' Harry Thomason, who had a financial
interest in the charter-airline business. That should have been
the first warning sign to Clinton aides to go slow.
Instead, after an apparently incomplete review of travel office
operations, including snooping by another Clinton acquaintance, a
distant cousin who hoped to take over the management of the of-
fice, the administration hastily fired the seven workers and im-
properly pressured the FBI to corroborate that it was investigat-
ing criminal activity in the office.
As it has turned out, the travel office did suffer from financial
mismanagement, including a failure to properly record $18,000 in
checks written on a petty-cash account, the report found. But such
conduct hardly necessitated the summary firings of the seven work-
ers. Five of the workers have since been reassigned to other jobs,
and the other two, longtime federal employees, are reportedly re-
tiring from government service.
For their part, four White House employees who had a hand in the
fiasco - a McLarty aide, an assistant counsel, a press aide and
Cathy Cornelius, the Clinton cousin - were given letters of repri-
mand. The White House also announced that stricter accounting pro-
cedures would be implemented.
The obvious lesson in all this is that the White House should look
carefully before it decides to leap to what may be an erroneous
conclusion. By failing to use caution, 'travelgate'' ballooned
into a much bigger problem for the administration. That the White
House chose an opportune moment to admit its shortcomings seems to
indicate that at least part of the lesson already has been
learned.
Who Is William Kennedy III?
V
The White House report on its
White House for "inquiries" about his
travel office scandal. Gergened out
impending press statement. As a re-
into the void of the July 4 weekend.
sult of their roles, Mr. Kennedy. Mr.
would have you believe that William
Watkins, Mr. Eller and Ms. Cornelius
Kennedy III is just one of four White
were reprimanded, but no further ac-
House aides who will have letters of
tion was taken.
reprimand put in their personnel
Now. the travel office snafu was so
files. In fact. the associate White
complete it's tempting to ring it up to
House counsel is also the former man-
inexperience. Unhappily. it seems
aging partner of Little Rock's Rose
part of a law enforcement pattern
Law Firm. which is to say Hillary
centering on the Rose clique. Remem-
Rodham Clinton's number one legal
ber Webster Hubbell, the former Rose
partner.
partner who was "White House liai-
Friday's limited. modified hangout
son" to the Justice Department and
does establish a basic factual record.
now associate attorney general: he
but obviously puts a defensive gloss on
set up the meetings that led to the
the travel office shenanigans. Even at
Justice Department reversing its posi-
its most inno-
tion in a corruption trial of a member
cent level, it's a
of Congress. Mr. Foster is also a for-
chortle-chucked
mer Rose partner. His defense of
portrait of court
Mrs. Rodham Clinton's health care
intrigue. But the
task force did succeed in getting her
titillation should
declared a federal employee. but cut
not obscure the
some legal corners along the way.
chilling reality:
We've been particularly inter-
One of the First
ested in the Rose firm's four-partner
Lady's closest
implant in the administration be-
associates in-
cause of its representation of the
voked the White
Arkansas financial empire headed
House in calling
by Jackson Stephens. Our interest in
the FBI to insti-
William Kennedy III
the Stephens companies, in turn,
gate a criminal investigation of func-
was piqued because they handled
tionaries who'd incurred the displea-
the deal when proxies for BCCI
sure of the Clinton inner circle.
bought Washington's First American
The origins of this displeasure
Bank. Mr. Stephens says there has
seem to lie with Catherine Cornelius,
been no further contact with the
the distant Clinton cousin appointed
BCCI figures.
to head the travel office when seven
Stephens executives were an im-
employees were fired, and Harry
portant source of contributions for the
Thomason, the First Couple's film-
Clinton campaign, and its primary-
maker crony, who also has a pecu-
season finances were salvaged by a
niary interest in TRM, an air char-
timely loan from Worthen Banking
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 7. 1993
ter firm inquiring after White House
Corp., more than 36% owned by
business. It soon spread to Deputy
Stephens interests. Mr. McLarty, by
Communications Director Jeff Eller.
the way, was chief executive of Arkla
with whom Ms. Cornelius had "a
Inc. the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co.
personal relationship." the report re-
that was the original cornerstone of
ports. And to David Watkins. major-
the Stephens fortune. Unhappily for
domo for personnel. and High Cham-
Stephens, its new influence brought
berlain Thomas "Mack" McLarty.
increased scrutiny of an ongoing con-
And soon the word was up to the
cern about whether it complies with
Queen herself. Mrs. Clinton was in-
laws mandating the separation of in-
quiring about the travel office with
vestment banking and commercial
Deputy White House Counsel Vincent
banking. The Fed found one holding,
Foster and Chief of Staff McLarty, re-
in the First National Bank of
ceived updates from Mr. Watkins and
Stuttgart, in violation of the Glass-
was carboned on crucial memos.
Steagall Act. Papers putting the hold-
Mr. Kennedy, however, did the
ing at 43% instead of 60% were filed,
heavy lifting. He called the FBI-be-
according to Jeff Gerth's report in the
cause, the report states, he couldn't
New York Times, by the Rose firm's
figure out where else to get some au-
William Kennedy III.
diting expertise. When the FBI was
Now, we wouldn't want to make
slow to respond. he said he'd call the
too much of all this. Lawyers are paid
IRS instead. A week later. IRS audi-
to take positions in defense of their
tors did show up at UltrAir, the TRM
clients. The Stephens companies have
competitor usually used by the travel
done a lot of economic good, and
office: an IRS statement denies there
we're not sure we agree with Glass-
was any contact with the White
Steagall in the first place. Any admin-
House. According to press reports,
istration will reach back to home-
the agents told UltrAir officials
state roots in appointing key person-
they'd read about the controversy in
nel. and we think conflict-of-interest
the press.
concerns have been carried to the
In any event. auditors from Peat
point where people of stature shun
Marwick were soon swarming over
government.
the travel office accounts, quite plau-
Still, the early indications of the
sibly finding the records a mess and
Rose view of the law are certainly dis-
identifying $18.000 in disbursements
concerting. displaying a lot of corner-
not accounted for. The seven employ-
cutting and casual abuse of power. If
ees were fired. and the White House
these are the people in position to
announced that the FBI had started
start FBI investigations and sway the
an investigation. and the FBI's
administration of justice. they are go-
spokesman was summoned to the
ing to bear a lot of watching.
GOP says Thomason
may have broken law
AT
ment work to firms they have an in-
By Paul Bedard
terest in.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Congressional Republicans are
House and Senate GOP leaders
focusing on Mr. Thomason's job as a
are investigating whether President
director of the Inaugural Committee
Clinton's Hollywood pal Harry
and his role as a "presidential ad-
Thomason used his quasi-federal-
viser" who held an exclusive all-
officer status to steer White House
points White House pass and was
travel business to his company in
given office space and a secretary
violation of federal law.
during the first month of the Clinton
In a growing partisan war be-
administration.
tween congressional Republicans
The Republicans claim that Mr.
and the White House, GOP leaders
Thomason, co-producer of the CBS
are building the case that Mr.
sitcoms "Evening Shade" and "De-
Thomason held an official position in
signing Women," was essentially an
the early Clinton White House and
administration officer because he
violated a federal law banning fed-
eral officers from steering govern-
see TRAVEL. page All
TRAVEL
nority Leader Robert H. Michel and
Clarissa Cerda. Mr. Jones said yes-
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole,
terday that none of the aides have
are considering asking Attorney
been fired or demoted, adding that
From page Al
General Janet Reno to appoint a spe-
Mr. Eller has been given the promi-
cial prosecutor to investigate the af-
nent role of directing the adminis-
had the pass and office rights of a top
fair, which led to the reprimand of
tration's promoting of its health care
Clinton "adviser."
four White House officials.
plan.
A July 2 White House probe of the
Short of that, the Republicans will
The White House's report on the
"Travelgate" scandal reported that
seek a General Accounting Office
travel office, unusual in its frank-
Mr. Thomason sought to steer White
investigation or set up their own in-
ness, found a handful of manage-
House travel office business to a
dependent inquiry, Mr. Clinger said.
ment problems with the White
company in which he is part owner
Jed Babbin, a federal legal expert
House travel office, but no criminal
- -Thomason, Richland & Martens, a
and former Pentagon counsel, said
charges have been filed.
small aviation firm.
Mr. Thomason's title or role is not
The report also found that many
"You can make a strong case that
clear. But he added, "If he is an offi-
White House officials acted improp-
he was a special employee
who
cer of the executive branch, then it
erly in firing the travel office work-
took actions that would benefit him,"
appears he would have violated Sec-
ers before lodging any formal
said a congressional Republican
tion 208 by trying to steer a contract
charges. Two of the workers have
leadership aide.
for White House business to a com-
since retired, and the remaining five
"He seemed to be a de facto em-
pany he has an interest in."
are to be reassigned.
ployee since he had a pass. He had a
Either way, "somebody ought to
Mr. Thomason, who has essen-
quasi-official status." said Rep. Wil-
look into this." Mr. Babbin said.
tially been banned from the White
liam Clinger Jr. of Pennsylvania. the
Officials said the congressional
House due to administration con-
top Republican on the House Gov-
Republican probe also is expected to
cerns about reports about the presi-
ernment Operations Committee.
examine other relationships and
dent being too close to Hollywood,
White House spokesman Arthur
questions raised in the White House
was a central figure in the travel
Jones said yesterday that Mr.
investigation of the travel office
office scandal, according to the re-
Thomason never held any official
scandal. Among them:
port.
status at the White House. "He's not
a federal employee.
He's
Why was first lady Hillary Rod-
During the presidential cam-
just
a
ham Clinton involved in an attempt
paign, Mr. Thomason's firm did bill-
friend." he said.
But the White House travel office
to oust longtime travel office em-
ing and consulting work for the Clin-
report written by Chief of Staff
ployees and replace them with the
ton campaign's air charter broker.
Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty said Mr.
president's cousin Catherine Cor-
Rebuffed by the travel office, Mr.
Thomason had a "special assign-
nelius and others?
Thomason told Mr. Clinton he
ment" in the White House during the
The White House report said Mrs.
thought the travel office was en-
Clinton inquired about problems she
gaged in wrongdoing.
first weeks of the administration.
Mr. Clinger rejected Mr. Jones'
had heard existed in the travel office
"Thomason should have avoided
but didn't provide further details.
continued involvement in a matter in
characterization. charging that the
White House was twisting federal
Was David Watkins, assistant to
which his business partner and his
the president for management and
friends in the charter business stood
rules to give Mr. Thomason an es-
administration. involved in efforts
to benefit and in which there was an
cape from federal conflict-of-
interest laws, such as Section 208 of
by Miss Cornelius to seize control of
appearance of financial conflict of
the Federal Code.
the travel office and oust seven long-
interest," said the report.
"It suggests a very cavalier atti-
time travel office workers?
"There should be better manage-
tude toward governance and sug-
ment control with respect to the mis-
Why hasn't the White House
gests that the White House approach
sion that any non-White House staff
fired or demoted the four senior of-
is 'since we are in command, we can
person is brought in to carry out.
ficials singled out for reprimand in
do anything we want regardless of
Permitting Thomason - or any non-
the travel office report?
the rules and regulations,' Mr.
staff person who comes in on special
The four were Miss Cornelius, Mr.
assignments to work on problems
Clinger said.
Watkins, Deputy Communications
GOP leaders, including House Mi-
outside the scope of his or her as-
Director Jeff Eller and Watkins aide
signment is not a good practice."
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1993 The Washington Times
harassment.
The report released yesterday is
Haitian with HIV slams
fer or agree to engage in, engage in
during his final remarks for the
"The gunman was a Vietnamese
the first government attempt to as-
or aid and abet any act of prostitu-
network, which were taped
student and he was accused of ver-
sess the contamination. It chroni-
Guantanamo treatment
tion or
live in or about houses of
Wednesday for broadcast this eve-
bally and physically harassing a 28-
cles mine sites that have tainted
A Haitian woman infected with
prostitution."
ning.
year-old Vietnamese woman, also a
surface and ground water, oil and
the AIDS virus complained at an
Nevada law permits brothels in
It's not the end of an era, just
student," a university spokesman
gas wells contaminated with oil and
rural counties that decide to li-
the end of my era. I've sort of out-
Amnesty International news con-
said.
drilling waste, pollution from irri-
ference yesterday of mistreatment
cense them. They are banned in
lived the culture at NBC," said Mr.
The woman was not harmed, but
gation runoff, and unexploded ord-
Clark County, Washoe County, Car-
Chancellor, 65.
while she was detained at the
her husband was among the in-
nance on 2 million acres of Interior
Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in
son City and a few rural areas.
Mr. Chancellor was a foreign
Thomason investigated
jured. A lawyer and the security
Department land used for military
Lorne Malkiewich, the legisla-
correspondent for NBC, covered
Cuba.
guard were also injured in the
for interest conflict
training and weapons testing.
Defense Department officials,
ture's top legal adviser, said noth-
wars and 20 political conventions
shooting.
"As a result of inadequate laws
however, said refugees detained at
ing can be done to correct the
and anchored 2,860 network broad-
President Clinton's crony from
The student gunman was identi-
and decades of neglect, the Amer-
the U.S. base were treated "far bet-
situation until lawmakers return
casts before becoming a commen-
Hollywood, Harry Thomason,
fied as Mark Duong, 28.
ican taxpayer will be saddled with
ter" there than at home in Haiti.
for their 1995 session.
tator.
billions of dollars in cleanup costs,"
Mr. Chancellor and his wife, Bar-
doesn't hang around the White
A woman who identified herself
House anymore, but in the first
Sheik refuses
said Rep. George Miller, California
only as Yolande Jean told reporters
Testimony begins
bara, plan to live in Princeton, N.J.,
month of the new administration he
to take insulin
Democrat, chairman of the House
she had been given experimental
because of "good train service" and
held an all-points pass and was
Natural Resources Subcommittee
in racketeering trial
drugs for her AIDS infection that
"a great library." He plans to write
given an office and a secretary in
NEW YORK - Radical Sheik
on Oversight and Investigations.
made her and other detainees sick.
SAN ANTONIO - Prosecutors
books, including one about televi-
the mansion. Now GOP leaders on
Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is being
She also said she had been kept
set out to prove former Rep. Albert
sion, politics and life in America.
the Hill say he steered White
held in an upstate New York
Reno would order
in cramped quarters and given
Bustamante went from a poor man
House travel business to his own
prison on immigration charges, is
attack on cult again
spoiled food.
chasing the American dream to
Security guard shoots
firm and, if he was an official aide,
refusing to take his medication to
"They were experimenting with
an elected official peddling his of
he may have broken the law.
protest regulations he says inter-
Nearly three months after a reli-
us with new treatments for HIV."
fice for money.
gunman in office melee
Page A1
fere with his religion, an associate
gious cult went up in flames after
she said, referring to the virus that
"You're about to learn the story
LAS VEGAS - A man armed
said Wednesday
an FBI tear-gas
causes AIDS.
about Albert Bustamante, who was
with a pistol and shotgun drove his
The 55-year-old blind cleric, who
Joint Chiefs hold
attack, Attorney
on the take," prosecutor Jackie
truck into a state workers' insur-
suffers from diabetes, was detained
General Janet
Friday after a standoff with the
Navy to commission
Bennett told jurors as Mr. Busta-
ance office and open fired yester-
fate of gay plan
Reno says
mante's racketeering-and-bribery
day but was shot by a security
FBI and the Immigration and Natu-
she would ap-
new submarine
trial began Wednesday.
guard before anyone was injured.
The six members of the Joint
ralization Service.
prove the same
Chiefs of Staff all support one of
He was admitted to the prison
The Navy will commission its
Attorneys for Mr. Bustamante
The gunman ordered dozens of
FBI action to-
newest nuclear ballistic missile
and his wife, Rebecca, a lawyer on
people out of the building and fired
the three proposed policies regard-
hospital Tuesday after his blood su-
day.
ing homosexuals in the military.
submarine tomorrow. The vessel is
trial on charges of aiding and abet-
a shotgun blast into the ceiling as
gar level rose to abnormal levels.
"I've gone over
But their split over the other two
named after the state of Nebraska,
ting, told jurors Mr. Bustamante
terrified workers and claimants
"The sheik told me he is protest-
it in my mind
ing because they will not allow him
the Pentagon said yesterday.
did what any congressman would:
scattered for the doors.
versions of "don't ask, don't tell" is
night after
Witnesses said the man was con-
seen as a risky stance when they
to wear his long robe and because
Reno
The Ohio-class sub will be the
work for his constituents.
night as I've
come before the Senate. Key
he is not getting meat and poultry
14th of the 18 ballistic missile sub-
fronted by a state security guard,
fallen asleep, trying to determine if
staffers on Capitol Hill indicated
marines authorized by Congress.
Chancellor ends
who ordered him to drop his
that has been slaughtered accord-
there was something different that
The commissioning ceremony will
weapon. When the man turned and
yesterday any proposal with less-
ing to Muslim dietary laws," said
I would have done," Miss Reno
NBC News career
Ahmed Sattar, a Muslim activist
be held at the Naval Underwater
fired at the guard, the guard shot
than-unanimous backing by the
said on the ABC News program
chiefs is likely to be shot down.
Warfare Center in New London,
BOSTON - John Chancellor
at him, hitting him several times.
and close associate of the cleric.
"20/20" to be broadcast tonight.
Conn.
ends his 43 years at NBC News re-
The gunman was rushed by am-
Page A1
Mr. Sattar said officials at the
"But based on the information
Federal Correctional Institution at
Sen. Jim Exon. Nebraska Demo-
flecting on the 10 years he spent as
bulance to a nearby hospital. His
that has been developed to date, I
Otisville, N.Y., where the cleric is
crat, will speak at the event.
resident pundit.
condition was not immediately
don't think that there is anything
Student gunman killed,
being held, had refused to allow Mr.
"It was an honor to be a guest in
known.
different that I would do," she said.
Abdel-Rahman to pray with three
New Nevada law
your home," Mr. Chancellor said
From wife dispatches and staff reports
3 injured at college
The 51-day standoff with the
other Muslims on their weekly holy
Branch Davidian cult began with a
OGDEN, Utah -- A Vietnamese
day.
bans brothels
shootout Feb. 28 in which four fed-
university student shot and injured
eral Treasury agents and six cult
CARSON CITY, Nev. - Nevada,
three persons in front of horrified
Report outlines
members were killed.
home of the infamous Mustang
witnesses during a hearing on cam-
pus yesterday before a security
pollution of lands
On April 19, the FBI punched
Ranch and other less notable
holes in the walls of the cult's com-
houses of prostitution. may have
guard returned fire and killed the
The nation's public lands are lit-
plex near Waco, Texas, and poured
accidentally outlawed brothels.
gunman, local authorities said.
tered with ammunition and other
in a chemical irritant. Shortly
The bill, signed into law last
The shooting occurred at a hear-
environmental pollution that
afterward, the complex burned
month by Gov. Bob Miller, was in-
ing on a complaint filed by a mar-
will cost taxpayers billions of dol-
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1993
The Washington Times
down in a fire officials say was set
tended to make Nevada's loitering
ried Vietnamese couple against the
lars to clean up, according to a con-
by cult members. At least 85 cult
laws constitutional.
gunman allegedly involving verbal
gressional report.
members died that day.
The bill says it is "unlawful to of
IN THE LOOP
White House May Clamp Down on Passes
By Al Kamen
whether any criminal statutes may have been
violated.
Washington Post Staff Writer
"couple handfuls" of Clinton pals are the
Wanted: Someone to Catch NAFTA Arrows
A
proud possessors of one of the ultimate
With hundreds of government jobs still open. the
power symbols in Washington: a permanent
Clinton team is looking to fill a new one: point man
White House pass that allows free access to much
for NAFTA.
of the compound without having an appointment or
This individual would head the effort to get the
requiring clearance at guard stations.
North American Free Trade Agreement through
But that perk may fall victim to the
Congress-side agreements, environmental tangles
administration's heightened attention to ethics
and all.
problems following the mess over the firing of the
The theory is that NAFTA. facing heavy
travel office staff.
opposition from Democrats and strong criticism
White House Chief of Staff Thomas F. "Mack"
from Ross Perot, needs special help.
McLarty said last week that an internal review of
Sources said the first choice for the task was
the fiasco convinced him that too many people had
former Oklahoma representative Jim Jones, who
been granted too much access and a new policy
has already been tapped to be ambassador to
would tighten things up.
Mexico. Jones said no thanks to the additional
Aides say the new policy could go into effect by
NAFTA duties.
the end of the month, putting the Clinton White
A lot of names-Democatic and Republican-have
House on track with previous administrations that
since been injected into the debate, with Democratic
also wrestled with the issue and ultimately
strategist John Sasso a leading contender. He may
determined that such passes be granted in only the
face competition from former Arkansas
rarest of circumstances.
representative Beryl F. Anthony Jr.
White House officials aren't saying who has
On the Republican side, a few business and
passes now, but the most well-known is Harry
industry and trade names are being bandied about,
Thomason, the television producer and Friend of
including James Robinson, former head of
Bill (FOB), whose efforts to oust the White House
American Express. and Wayne Berman, a
travel office staff were well-documented in the
Washington consultant and investment banker who
internal review.
was the top aide to Commerce Secretary Robert A.
Thomason "should have avoided continued
Mosbacher in the Bush administration.
involvement in a matter in which his business
partner and his friends stood to benefit and in
Is it Club Membership or Partisanship?
which was an appearance of conflict of interest,"
Odd how the Senate Judiciary Committee
the report said.
Republicans, led by Sen. Larry Pressier (R-S.D.),
It suggests Thomason had a "special assignment"
have been outraged over the membership in an
to advise the White House on the staging of
all-white country club of Eleanor D. Acheson.
presidential events but wandered beyond that when
nominee for assistant attorney general for policy
his attention turned to the travel office.
development.
The problem with such no-limits access is that
Others who have been members of the same club
the pass-holders are not vetted for conflicts of
have had little trouble getting confirmed. Take
interest in any way.
Robert S. Mueller IH, former assistant attorney
Pass-holder or not, some legal analysts think
general in charge of the criminal division in the
Thomason and other FOBs who hold passes, get
Bush administration.
White House office space, have-and act
Nary a peep was heard during his September
on-specific assignments are legally Special
1990 hearing from the now-indignant committee
Government Employees (SGE). a designation that
Republicans over Mueller's membership in the
subjects them to ethics regulations and laws. These
Brookline, Mass., country club.
individuals don't have to be paid or even have a
Mueller, on his committee questionnaire,
specific job but only be "designated" to perform
acknowledged his membership, dating to 1982,
"some duties" regularly or intermittently, in order
saying that "until 1989 [when Acheson and others
to fall under conflict-of-interest provisions.
"integrated" the club) the Country Club restricted
An FOTC (that's Friend of This Column) writes
full membership privileges to males. It no longer
that Thomason is an SGE and, as such, violated
has such a restriction," he wrote the committee,
federal conflict-of-interest laws by working the
citing new admission rules against bias.
White House on a matter in which he had a financial
However, the club membership is still all white.
stake.
Asked if the White House examined this issue, a
Foley Aide Denies Ambassadorship Report
senior official there said the lawyer in charge of
Rumors have resurfaced that House Speaker
ethics, Beth Nolan, looked into it and concluded
Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash) is on the
Thomason was not covered by the law.
administration's list to be the next ambassador to
But the official said that the "management
Britain. A top Foley aide says, "It's not true" and
review" had been forwarded to the Justice
"it's ridiculous." A senior State Department official
Department, which could determine on its own
also denied the reports.
THE WASHINGTON POST
FRIDAY,
JULY
9,
1993
A Stealthy, Evasive Confession
When the White House was getting ready to fire
advantages for themselves or for their cronies.
all seven employees of its travel office; why was
The White House also acquits itself of anything
notice sent to Hillary Rodham Clinton and not her
much worse than bad appearances in the abuse of
Husband the President? And why, even after the
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The staff sum-
public had learned how Clinton friends engineered
moned an F.B.I. official to bolster insinuations that
the travel office flushout, did the staff feed Presi-
the travel office, instead of being reshuffled for
dent Clinton the discredited line that the firings
friends, was under investigation for possible crimi-
were simply economy measures?
nality. That maneuver, along with suggestions that
These are among many questions that remain
the Internal Revenue Service might be called in,
unanswered after the White House release of what
didn't just look bad. It was bad.
it styles as a "management review" of the travel
The White House management study says the
office fiasco that unraveled in May. Thomas
First Lady inquired about the travel office and was
NicLarty, the chief of staff, hoping to contain the
sent a copy of a memo about the impending firings.
scandal, calls his report "complete and thorough."
No one seems to have asked the nature of her
But his accounting is replete with the "mis-
interest. The study also says that Bernard Nuss-
takes were made" format of White House dodges of
baum, the White House counsel, and two members
the past. The mistakes, the report insists, were
of his legal staff attended that key meeting with the
simply bad judgment and inexperience, nothing
F.B.I. official. No one asked why Mr. Nussbaum, the
venal. The report's confessions were delivered al-
in-house ethical watchdog, didn't intervene to stop
most by stealth on July 2, presumably in hopes that
the obvious pressure on the bureau to make the
anyone interested in its contents would be safely at
travel office look crooked as well as inefficient.
the beach. In any event, more than mistakes were
The management study concludes that it was
made: Misstatements were made and wrongs were
wrong to tell reporters that the F.B.I. was probing
committed.
for criminality but doesn't repent the rest of the
The report commendably concludes that the
White House tale: that the probe of the travel office
travel office employees were cashiered without
began as a routine part of Vice President Al Gore's
"sensitivity and decency," that assigning a Clinton
efficiency survey. President Clinton's staff kept
cousin to replace them "fed the appearance of
giving him that line to sell to the public long after
favoritism" in dishing out a White House perk, and
the public had rejected it.
that it was "not a good practice" to give Clinton
Attorney General Janet Reno may not find
friend Harry Thomason roaming privileges in the
criminal abuse of office when she reads this man-
White House and not cut off his interventions for his
agement review. But the Senate Republican leader,
business associates. But surely more than appear-
Bob Dole, however partisan his impulses, is on the
ances were involved here. Mr. Clinton's friends and
right track to call for a Congressional look at this
relatives abused their White House access to gain
catalogue of mistakes and deception.
new Vork Times 7-11-93
The travel office controversy isn't over
he much-heralded report on the White House
review and noted that the White House had asked the
T
internal investigation of the debacle over its
FBI to investigate financial irregularities. Counsels
travel office was released a week ago Friday
Foster and Kennedy instructed Mr. Watkins to delete
- timed, conveniently enough, to coincide with
mention of the FBI from the press guidance, but Miss
the mass exodus from Washington for the Fourth of
Myers had already left the building. Somehow, no one
July holiday - and, as was to be expected, it amounts
was able to locate her during the next three hours, and
to not much more than a bit of breast beating and a
by noon she had already let the FBI cat out of the bag.
gentle slap on the wrist for those involved.
The press, having gotten wind of Miss Cornelius'
The facts presented by the report provide a clear
travel-office ambitions and Mr. Thomason's partner-
account of the machinations that ended in the sum-
ship with Darnell Martens, smelled a rat and "ques-
mary dismissal - and public humiliation - of the
tioned the bona fides of the FBI investigation." By May
seven long-time employees of the travel office. Take,
21. Communications Director George Stephanopouios,
for example, Catherine Cornelius. The president's
chief White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum. Mr.
cousin had coordinated commercial travel during the
Foster and Mr. Kennedy were meeting with FBI Public
campaign, and she had her eye on the travel office from
and Congressional Relations director John Colling-
the beginning. During the transition, according to the
wood "to clarify the facts and indicate what could
report, she prepared two memos outlining her ideas
properly be said about the investigation." Mr. Colling-
for organizing press travel for the Clinton administra-
wood assured the staffers that it would be accurate to
tion. After the inauguration, and once hired as a gen-
say the FBI had determined there was enough evi-
eral White House assistant, she prepared yet a third
dence to warrant further investigation. He then went
memo, this time offering a detailed restructuring of
back to his office and "updated" his own press guid-
the office that put her in charge. From January until
ance accordingly. He faxed that guidance to the White
April she pressed her case, and finally made it to the
House press office, which, unaware that it was for their
office - though not as director - on April 12.
information only, released it to the press.
Meanwhile, Clinton buddy Harry Thomason was
On May 25th, the White House announced that the
hearing complaints from his pal (and partner in an
five travel office employees with no financial control
aviation consulting firm) Darnell Martens about not
had had their status upgraded from "dismissed" to "on
being able to get the time of day, business-wise, from
paid administrative leave," where they remain as of
the White House travel office. Mr. Martens also let Mr.
this writing. The FBI investigation continues.
Thomason in on a rumor he'd heard about corruption
The report's analysis of its own findings is every bit
in the office. Mr. Thomason passed this on to the pres-
as revealing as the findings themselves. The travel
ident as well as to Assistant to the President for Man-
office employees, the report concludes, for one thing,
agement and Administration David Watkins - who
ought to have had "an opportunity to hear the reasons
passed it on to Miss Cornelius, now happily ensconced
for their termination
and
to
respond."
"A
more
in the travel office, asking her to "keep her eyes and
humane approach was in order" in their treatment.
ears open" to any evidence of corruption there.
The White House ought not to have been so "insensi-
This she did, and with a vengeance. She sneaked
tive" as to have tarnished their reputations, further-
The MONDAY, JULY 12, 1993
around copying documents, and brought the copies
more, by the "inappropriate" disclosure of the FBI
home with her. She also eavesdropped on office con-
investigation.
versations that led her to believe, as the report put it,
As to the FBI's involvement in the case, William
"that the employees were living in a manner beyond
Kennedy's insinuations about high-level White House
the means of government employees."
interest "risk creating the perception that the FBI is
At the same time, Harry Thomason was still con-
being improperly pressured." Calling the FBI's PR di-
ducting his own campaign to make the office more
rector into a White House communications meeting,
congenial to his friends in the travel business. And on
moreover, and releasing his updated press guidance.
May 12th, David Watkins arranged for a meeting be-
"was
improper and insensitive to the appearance of
tween Mr. Thomason and Miss Cornelius, who reached
White House influence."
an agreement that something was fishy in the travel
And the role of Harry Thomason and Catherine
office. Later that day, the two presented this consensus
Cornelius? While "there is every reason to believe," the
to Mr. Watkins, bringing along Mr. Thomason's partner
report asserts, "that these individuals saw their actions
Darnell Martens, who, according to the report, hap-
as being in the best interests of the White House and
pened to be "in Washington at the time" and told his
the President," and while "it is entirely plausible that
story of being rebuffed by the travel office's director.
Thomason was in no way motivated by the hope of
The meeting then expanded to include Deputy White
financial gain," nevertheless, their involvement created
House Counsel Vincent Foster and Associate White
"the appearance that personal interests" played a role
House Counsel William Kennedy - though Mr. Mar-
in decisions about the travel office."
tens seems to have dropped out at that point. The
The whole imbroglio, in the view of Chief of Staff
counsels recommended an audit of the office; when
McLarty and Office of Management and Budget Di-
Mr. Watkins declared such an audit beyond White
rector Leon Panetta, who conducted the investigation
House capability, the problem was given over to Mr.
together, is nothing more than a matter of insensitivity
Kennedy.
to appearances and perceptions.
He immediately called the FBI for "guidance" -
The Landmark Legal Foundation, for one, is not
and was still awaiting it next morning, when Mr. Foster
prepared to leave it at that. The Foundation, a non-
pressed him for a solution to the problem. Mr. Kennedy
profit public interest law firm, called on Attorney Gen-
then informed his FBI contact that if he couldn't come
eral Janet Reno weeks ago to institute a nonpartisan
up with some guidance in "the next fifteen minutes,"
investigation conducted by an experienced prosecutor.
Mr. Kennedy might have to turn eisewhere - perhaps
Said the Foundation's Mark Levin, "An internal White
to the IRS - for help. No fewer than four FBI honchos
House review by White House staffers, one of whom
met with Mr. Kennedy that day, and he told all of them
[Mr. McLarty) was directly involved in the decision-
that the case was of interest at "the highest levels at
making, does not constitute a proper investigation.
the White House." This was assuredly the truth, if
Statements were not taken under oath, and doc-
Hillary Rodham Clinton is considered as being at the
umentation was not properly secured. In short, we still
highest level of the White House; she questioned both
don't know if any laws were broken or regulations
Mr. Foster and Chief of Staff Thomas F. McLarty about
breached. And we won't until a real investigation is
the travel office problem that afternoon.
conducted."
While Mr. Kennedy was still awaiting FBI guidance,
The FBI recently informed the foundation that its
Mr Watkins had come up with his own plan: an audit
request for documents in the case under the Freedom
by a non-government firm, KPMG Peat Marwick. The
of Information Act will not be fulfilled for "a year or
FBI, having been impressed by Mr. Kennedy with the
more." So the chance that an independent, non-offical
urgency of the case, argued that its agents should
inquiry will be able to shed much additional light is
accompany the Peat Marwick team; Mr. Thomason,
low. Only the power of subpoena is going to disgorge
Mr. Cornelius and Deputy Communications Director
the necessary documents and testimony. Republicans
Jeff Eller - with whom, the report reveals, Miss Cor-
on Capitol Hill have been making exactly that point.
nelius "had a personal relationship" - called for the
In the meantime, though we may have no evidence
immediate dismissal of all travel office employees; but
of criminal conduct, we can surely draw the obvious
Mr. McLarty decided to go with the "more cautious and
conclusions about the ethics involved. The actions of
low-key approach" of doing the audit before instituting
the White House counsel in this matter were as im-
an FBI investigation or firing anyone.
proper and high-handed as can be imagined. The White
Three days later, on May 17, Peat Marwick submit-
House Press Office acted with unforgivable irrespon-
ted a report detailing "abysmal management." nonex-
sibility. The behavior of the President's cousin, Cather-
istent accounting and billing procedures and
ine Cornelius, and his best friend, Harry Thomason,
unaccounted-for cash in the travel office. On May 19th,
was as sleazy as sleazy can be. And the White House
Mr. Watkins ordered all seven office employees to leave
report on the incident is itself nothing but further
by the end of the day. He also provided press secretary
evidence of an unwholesome preoccupation with ap-
Dee Dee Myers with talking points for the press that
pearances and an arrogant indifference to real malfea-
described the dismissals as the result of a routine
sance.
all
The travel office controversy isn't over
he much-heralded report on the White House
review and noted that the White House had asked the
T
internal investigation of the debacle over its
FBI to investigate financial irregularities. Counsels
travel office was released a week ago Friday
Foster and Kennedy instructed Mr. Watkins to delete
- timed, conveniently enough, to coincide with
mention of the FBI from the press guidance, but Miss
the mass exodus from Washington for the Fourth of
Myers had already left the building. Somehow, no one
July holiday - and, as was to be expected, it amounts
was able to locate her during the next three hours, and
to not much more than a bit of breast beating and a
by noon she had already let the FBI cat out of the bag.
gentle slap on the wrist for those involved.
The press, having gotten wind of Miss Cornelius'
The facts presented by the report provide a clear
travel-office ambitions and Mr. Thomason's partner-
account of the machinations that ended in the sum-
ship with Darnell Martens, smelled a rat and "ques-
mary dismissal and public humiliation of the
tioned the bona fides of the FBI investigation." By May
seven long-time employees of the travel office. Take,
21. Communications Director George Stephanopoulos,
for example, Catherine Cornelius. The president's
chief White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Mr.
cousin had coordinated commercial travel during the
Foster and Mr. Kennedy were meeting with FBI Public
campaign, and she had her eye on the travel office from
and Congressional Relations director John Colling-
the beginning. During the transition, according to the
wood "to clarify the facts and indicate what could
report, she prepared two memos outlining her ideas
properly be said about the investigation." Mr. Colling-
for organizing press travel for the Clinton administra-
wood assured the staffers that it would be accurate to
tion. After the inauguration. and once hired as a gen-
say the FBI had determined there was enough evi-
eral White House assistant. she prepared yet a third
dence to warrant further investigation. He then went
memo, this time offering a detailed restructuring of
back to his office and "updated" his own press guid-
the office that put her in charge. From January until
ance accordingly. He faxed that guidance to the White
April she pressed her case, and finally made it to the
House press office, which, unaware that it was for their
office though not as director - on April 12.
information only, released it to the press.
Meanwhile, Clinton buddy Harry Thomason was
On May 25th, the hite-House announced that the
hearing complaints from his pal (and partner in an
five travel office employees with no financial control
aviation consulting firm) Darnell Martens about not
had had their status upgraded from "dismissed" to "on
being able to get the time of day, business-wise, from
paid administrative leave," where they remain as of
the White House travel office. Mr. Martens also let Mr.
this writing. The FBI investigation continues.
Thomason in on a rumor he'd heard about corruption
The report's analysis of its own findings is every bit
in the office. Mr. Thomason passed this on to the pres-
as revealing as the findings themselves. The travel
ident as well as to Assistant to the President for Man-
office employees, the report concludes, for one thing,
agement and Administration David Watkins - who
ought to have had "an opportunity to hear the reasons
passed it on to Miss Cornelius. now happily ensconced
for their termination
and
to
respond."
"A
more
in the travel office, asking her to "keep her eyes and
humane approach was in order" in their treatment.
ears open" to any evidence of corruption there.
The White House ought not to have been SO "insensi-
This she did, and with a vengeance. She sneaked
tive" as to have tarnished their reputations, further-
The Washington Times MONDAY, JULY 12, 1993
around copying documents, and brought the copies
more, by the "inappropriate" disclosure of the FBI
home with her. She also eavesdropped on office con-
investigation.
versations that led her to believe, as the report put it,
As to the FBI's involvement in the case, William
"that the employees were living in a manner beyond
Kennedy's insinuations about high-level White House
the means of government employees."
interest "risk creating the perception that the FBI is
At the same time, Harry Thomason was still con-
being improperly pressured." Calling the FBI's PR di-
ducting his own campaign to make the office more
rector into a White House communications meeting,
congenial to his friends in the travel business. And on
moreover, and releasing his updated press guidance,
May 12th, David Watkins arranged for a meeting be-
"was
improper and insensitive to the appearance of
tween Mr. Thomason and Miss Cornelius, who reached
White House influence."
an agreement that something was fishy in the travel
And the role of Harry Thomason and Catherine
office. Later that day, the two presented this consensus
Cornelius? While "there is every reason to believe," the
to Mr. Watkins, bringing along Mr. Thomason's partner
report asserts, "that these individuals saw their actions
Darnell Martens, who, according to the report, hap-
as being in the best interests of the White House and
pened to be "in Washington at the time" and told his
the President," and while "it is entirely plausible that
story of being rebuffed by the travel office's director.
Thomason was in no way motivated by the hope of
The meeting then expanded to include Deputy White
financial gain," nevertheless, their involvement created
House Counsel Vincent Foster and Associate White
"the appearance that personal interests" played a role
House Counsel William Kennedy - though Mr. Mar-
in decisions about the travel office."
tens seems to have dropped out at that point. The
The whole imbroglio, in the view of Chief of Staff
counsels recommended an audit of the office; when
McLarty and Office of Management and Budget Di-
Mr. Watkins declared such an audit beyond White
rector Leon Panetta, who conducted the investigation
House capability, the problem was given over to Mr.
together, is nothing more than a matter of insensitivity
Kennedy.
to appearances and perceptions.
He immediately called the FBI for "guidance" -
The Landmark Legal Foundation, for one, is not
and was still awaiting it next morning, when Mr. Foster
prepared to leave it at that. The Foundation, a non-
pressed him for a solution to the problem. Mr. Kennedy
profit public interest law firm, called on Attorney Gen-
then informed his FBI contact that if he couldn't come
eral Janet Reno weeks ago to institute a nonpartisan
up with some guidance in "the next fifteen minutes,"
investigation conducted by an experienced prosecutor.
Mr. Kennedy might have to turn elsewhere- perhaps
Said the Foundation's Mark Levin, "An internal White
to the IRS for help. No fewer than four FBI honchos
House review by White House staffers, one of whom
met with Mr. Kennedy that day, and he told all of them
(Mr. McLarty] was directly involved in the decision-
that the case was of interest at "the highest levels at
making, does not constitute a proper investigation.
the White House." This was assuredly the truth, if
Statements were not taken under oath, and doc-
Hillary Rodham Clinton is considered as being at the
umentation was not properly secured. In short, we still
highest level of the White House; she questioned both
don't know if any laws were broken or regulations
Mr. Foster and Chief of Staff Thomas F. McLarty about
breached. And we won't until a real investigation is
the travel office problem that afternoon.
conducted."
While Mr. Kennedy was still awaiting FBI guidance,
The FBI recently informed the foundation that its
Mr. Watkins had come up with his own plan: an audit
request for documents in the case under the Freedom
by a non-government firm, KPMG Peat Marwick. The
of Information Act will not be fulfilled for "a year or
FBI, having been impressed by Mr. Kennedy with the
more." So the chance that an independent, non-offical
urgency of the case, argued that its agents should
inquiry will be able to shed much additional light is
accompany the Peat Marwick team; Mr. Thomason,
low. Only the power of subpoena is going to disgorge
Mr. Cornelius and Deputy Communications Director
the necessary documents and testimony. Republicans
Jeff Eller with whom, the report reveals, Miss Cor-
on Capitol Hill have been making exactly that point.
nelius "had a personal relationship" called for the
In the meantime, though we may have no evidence
immediate dismissal of all travel office employees; but
of criminal conduct, we can surely draw the obvious
Mr. McLarty decided to go with the "more cautious and
conclusions about the ethics involved. The actions of
low-key approach" of doing the audit before instituting
the White House counsel in this matter were as im-
an FBI investigation or firing anyone.
proper and high-handed as can be imagined. The White
Three days later, on May 17, Peat Marwick submit-
House Press Office acted with unforgivable irrespon-
ted a report detailing "abysmal management," nonex-
sibility. The behavior of the President's cousin, Cather-
istent accounting and billing procedures and
ine Cornelius, and his best friend, Harry Thomason,
unaccounted-for cash in the travel office. On May 19th,
was as sleazy as sleazy can be. And the White House
Mr. Watkins ordered all seven office employees to leave
report on the incident is itself nothing but further
by the end of the day. He also provided press secretary
evidence of an unwholesome preoccupation with ap-
Dee Dee Myers with talking points for the press that
pearances and an arrogant indifference to real malfea-
described the dismissals as the result of a routine
sance.
94
Lingering whiffs of travelgate
he White House tried to
The Nixon
ler, Hollywood mogul Harry Thoma-
tion to ask Ms. Sample to volunteer
T
sweep away the Travelgate
son, dozens of lesser stars in the
for travel-office duty.
fiasco recently by issuing a
administration
Clinton political universe and first
Cronyism: Travelgate exposes a
report that openly admitted
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Nor-
spider web of personal and profes-
error. named a few names, and
collapsed over
mally, one must throw a state dinner
sional entanglements within the ad-
promised to sin no more. Adminis-
something much
to assemble a group with this much
ministration. Three key players, Hil-
tration officials tried to minimize
political throw-weight.
lary Rodham Clinton, Deputy
coverage of the document by releas-
smaller than a
Republican leaders in Congress,
Attorney General Webster Hubbell
ing it on the eve of the Tokyo Summit,
dissatisfied with the administra-
and William Kennedy III, all worked
when reporters were more con-
possible attempt to
tion's shabby inquiry into the affair,
for the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.
cerned about shopping in the Ginza
have asked the president to answer a
The firm has represented the Wor-
district than hanky-panky in the
compromise the FBI
series of detailed questions. They
then Bank, which owns Worldwide
travel office.
and IRS.
also plan to seek a full congressional
Travel, the agency assigned to han-
But despite this public-relations
investigation of Travelgate.
dle travel arrangments when the
wizardry. Travelgate will not die -
The key questions fall into several
Travel Office Seven got the sack.
at least not yet. The affair has a kind
categories:
Mack McLarty and David Wat-
of seedy soap-opera quality about it:
litical ties to the president for such
Conflicts of interest: Harry
kins both were longtime clients of
White House officials, overeager to
key work as arranging travel, char-
Thomason promoted the interests of
Worldwide Travel and friends with
The Mashington Times TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1993
seize control of the White House
tering flights and investigating the
his airline charter company while
the firm's owner, Betta Carney. Mr.
Travel Office (which handles flight
travel office.
serving as a "special government
McLarty and Mrs. Carney also
arrangements for the press and for
The White House cannot credibly
employee" of the White House. Air
worked together at the Worthen
White House personnel), fired the
argue that the scandal represents
Advantage, owned by another
Bank in the mid-1970s. Worldwide
seven-member office staff, con-
the indiscretion of a few young
Friend of Bill, Penny Sample, got
Travel, the Worthen Bank and Betta
cocted allegations of mismanage-
staffers. The list of people involved
White House business while she
Carney all have contributed signifi-
ment, then pressured the FBI and
reads like a Who's Who of the admin-
served as a volunteer in the travel
cant sums to Bill Clinton's war chest
possibly the IRS into harassing vic-
istration. It includes Chief of Staff
office. One or both of these Clinton
over the years, in his days as gov-
tims of the putsch. In attempting to
Mack McLarty, White House Coun-
pals may have violated criminal
ernor of Arkansas and later as pres-
clean up the mess, the administra-
sel Bernard Nussbaum, Associate
conflict-of-interest statutes by push-
idential candidate.
tion hired firms with personal or po-
Counsel William Kennedy III, senior
ing deals that worked to their per-
On another track, the administra-
adviser George Stephanopoulos,
sonal benefit.
tion's "outside" auditor for the travel
Communications Director Mark
Also, Darnell Martens, one of Mr.
Tony Snow is a columnist for the
Gearan, personnel director David
Thomason's partners in the charter
Detroit News.
Watkins, media affairs chief Jeff El-
company, somehow got into a posi-
see SNOW, page F4
SNOW
tures in the affair. Chief of Staff
pressured the FBI into mounting,
trAir, the charter company that han-
The Nixon administration col-
Mclarty sent carbon copies of
then announcing a probe of the
dled flights in the pre-Clinton eΓa,
lapsed over something much
From page FI
memos to Mrs. Clinton. The admin-
travel office. He claimed he would
soon after Travelgate became na-
smaller than a possible attempt to
istration's official review hints that
contact the Internal Revenue Ser-
tional news.
compromise the FBI and IRS by
office was not an outsider at all.
the first lady took an active, if dis-
vice if the FBI didn't act immedi-
None of this necessarily adds up
turning them into agents of political
Larry Herman. an accountant for
tant, interest in the matter. This
ately. And he told FBI officials the
to anything, but it's fishy enough to
influence. The allegations in this
the venerable firm of KPMG Peat
raises the issue of what, if any, limits
matter had aroused what the report
merit a close look. After all, if a host
scandal dwarf those of Watergate.
Marwick. already was working with
the law places on Mrs. Clinton's ad-
calls "high levels of White House in-
of administration officials will bend
Americans deserve a fair, probing
the office of the vice president when
ministrative activities.
terest" or levels of interest high at
the rules over something as trivial as
investigation, not just to answer the
asked to help investigate the travel
Corruption: Perhaps the most
the White House.
the travel office, what might they do
question the administration's report
office.
troubling questions involve William
Just to add to the intrigue, IRS
when something truly big is at
failed to answer but also the ones it
The first lady: Al several june-
Kennedy III. Mr. Kennedy clearly
agents pounced on the owner of UI.
stake?
dared not ask.
The Washington Times
SDAY, JULY 15, 1993
Dole says 'travelgate'
merits special counsel
Letter to Reno links Little Rock law firm to affair
misstatements and downright
sional GOP leaders to dig deeper into
By Paul Bedard
wrongdoing."
the scandal, which tarnished the
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
For the first time, Mr. Dole linked
reputations of the seven longtime
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole
Hillary Rodham Clinton's former
travel office aides.
yesterday leveled new conflict-of-
employer - Little Rock's Rose Law
The White House and Justice De-
interest charges against White
Firm - to the scandal. He charged
partment had no comment.
that the firm represented Little
Meanwhile, House Republicans
House officials involved in the
Rock's Worthen Bank, which he said
yesterday lost their attempt in the
"travelgate" scandal and repeated
was part-owner of the travel agency
Judiciary Committee to win ap-
his call for a special counsel to inves-
tigate.
hired to replace seven workers
proval for a resolution demanding
The Kansas Republican sent a
ousted from the travel office.
that the White House surrender doz-
five-page letter to Attorney General
But Gary Smith, Worthen senior
ens of documents detailing the sack-
Janet Reno that strongly suggests
vice president, denied the bank had
ing of the office. The 20-15party-line
the Clinton White House is covering
any interest in World Wide Travel.
vote could be reconsidered in the
up cronyism and ethics violations.
"That's absolutely not true," he said.
full House under special rules.
Mr. Dole's call for the appoint-
"The best way to put this sordid
Mr. Dole said only an independent
investigation of the White House's
ment of a special counsel - separate
affair behind us is to get all doc-
from ongoing Justice and General
uments in public," said Rep. F. James
bungling of its May 19 attempt to
reorganize its travel office will clear
Accounting Office (GAO) probes -
up. "this sorry episode of mistakes,
is the latest attempt by congres-
see DOLE, page A8
He also wants the special counsel
The four White House officials
to determine if White House staffers
DOLE
named in the internal probe - Miss
violated a federal criminal re-
Cornelius; David Watkins, assistant
to the president for management
striction on rewarding political cro-
From page Al
and administration; Watkins aide
nies and supporters with govern-
Clarissa Cerda; and Jeff Eller,
ment jobs.
Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Re-
"I am more convinced than ever
deputy communications director -
publican. "There has been stone-
were reprimanded for their actions.
of the need to conduct an indepen-
walling by the White House."
The former White House travel
dent investigation into the entire
Democrats argued that Justice
travel office affair," Mr. Dole said.
aides - first fired and then put on
and the GAO are already backing up
indefinite administrative leave -
The Washington Times reported
the White House's own investigation
last week that congressional Repub-
have not been offered any new posi-
into the scandal, but Mr. Dole said
tions despite recommendations in
licans are building a case that Mr.
those probes are being done by
the McLarty report.
Thomason was a special White
"staff lawyers from the home team."
House worker for the first month of
Their mounting legal costs have
House and Senate Republicans
the Clinton administration and, thus,
prompted a group calling itself
charged yesterday that White House
"Friends of the White House Travel
may have violated federal criminal
Chief of Staff Thomas F. "Mack"
Office" to issue a second urgent ap-
and ethics rules when he sought to
McLarty's probe into the scandal
steer travel office business to his
was a whitewash.
firm, Thomason, Richland & Mar
"The White House's internal re-
tens.
view of its travelgate scandal only
peal for contributions. "I wish I was
White House officials said Mr.
gives more credence to those of us
writing to say that the nightmare for.
Thomason was simply acting as a
who view the administration's
our friends in the White House
friend when he gave political advice
scrambling on this one as little more
travel office is over. Unfortunately
to the president during Mr. Clinton's
than damage control," Mr. Dole said
that is not the case. Our friends
first month in office.
of the report released July 2.
need our help now," said organizer
But Republicans charge that
The White House probe found that
Connie Gerrard.
since Mr. Thomason was given a
senior White House aides - includ-
Mr. Dole raised several new and
White House pass and was assigned
ing the president's cousin, Catherine
unanswered questions in his letter to
a secretary and office space, he was
Cornelius planned to oust the
Miss Reno and in a speech on the
essentially a "special government
seven men in charge of the White
Senate floor yesterday.
employee."
House travel office - which makes
Mr. Dole said he wants the special
travel arrangements for the media to
Justice counsel to probe alleged
"Some might suggest that Thoma-
follow the president on trips - in
White House pressuring of the FBI
son's actions involved an actual con-
order to take it over and farm out
to investigate the travel office and
flict of interest, rather than the ap-
business to friends.
the actions of Harry Thomason - a
pearance of one, and that Thomason
While the White House report un-
TV producer and Hollywood pal of
himself stood to benefit as well, not
covered accounting problems in the
the Clintons' - to win travel office
just his business partner and his
travel office, it rejected more seri-
business for a commercial airline
friends in the charter business," Mr.
ous criminal allegations used by
charter business in which he has a
Dole said in his letter to Miss Reno.
White House officials to oust the
one-third ownership.
seven, who manned the travel office
as far back as the Johnson admin-
istration.
73
The Washington Times
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1993
Treasury probes
'travelgate' affair
By Paul Bedard
Al
FBI workers in an effort by senior
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
officials to take over the travel office
and fire its longtime staff.
The Treasury Department is in-
"I just know something funny is
vestigating the "travelgate" scandal
going on here," Mr. Wolf said in an
to determine if the White House
interview with The Washington
pressured federal workers to help
Times.
verify rumors of wrongdoing in its
The Northern Virginia lawmaker
travel office.
demanded the probe in a letter sent
Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Re-
Wednesday to Mr. Cesca. Mr. Wolf
publican, said yesterday that Robert
said the deputy inspector general
Cesca, Treasury's deputy inspector
called to assure him that "he'll look
general. promised to look into it.
into it."
Mr. Wolf wants the Inspector Gen-
"I have a lot of confidence in the
eral's Office to explore charges that
inspector general," Mr. Wolf said.
the Clinton administration pres-
sured Internal Revenue Service and
see TRAVEL, page A10
TRAVEL
partner of Clinton Hollywood pal
Harry Thomason, said a firm owned
in part by Mr. Thomason was being
From page A1
refused travel office business possi-
A Treasury Department spokes-
bly because the travel office was be-
man said the department has a pol-
ing loyal to Ultra.
icy of neither confirming nor de-
Congressional Republicans
nying the status of investigations.
charged that the only reason Ultra
The Treasury Inspector General's
was investigated by the IRS at the
Office has oversight responsibility
height of efforts to replace travel of-
for the Internal Revenue Service.
fice employees with Clinton political
The travel office affair already is
appointees including President
being probed by the Justice Depart-
Clinton's 25-year-old cousin, Cather-
ment and the General Accounting
ine Cornelius was because it was
Office, and Senate Minority Leader
the Bush administration's airline of
Bob Dole has called for an indepen-
choice.
The White House review of the
dent investigation by a special coun-
scandal also reported that Associate
sel.
White House Counsel William Ken-
A White House official said yes-
terday that the calls for an indepen-
nedy contacted the FBI to seek guid-
dent investigation are politically mo-
ance on how to probe allegations of
tivated, and spokeswoman Dee Dee
wrongdoing in the travel office.
In a conversation with Jim
Myers said the scandal has been
looked into enough.
Bourke, chief of the FBI special in-
A White House review released
quiry unit, Mr. Kennedy threatened
to call in the IRS if the FBI would not
July 2 found that four White House
officials schemed to oust the travel
help in the effort to probe the travel
office's seven staff workers to take it
office, which sets up staff and media
over and farm out work to business
travel arrangements.
"There is obviously a serious
associates.
The workers were initially fired
threat posed to federal employees
May 19 but later were put on admin-
and career. civil servants by such
istrative leave when a furor erupted
actions being contemplated by the
over the handling of the matter. Four
White House," Mr. Welf said in his
White House officials received let-
letter to Mr. Cesca. A copy was pro-
ters of reprimand for their roles in
vided to The Times.
the episode.
The congressman's statements
At issue in the Treasury probe is
that the Treasury inspector general
a surprise IRS investigation of the
is probing travelgate comes one day
main White House travel office
after Mr. Dole, Kansas Republican,
charter airline Ultra Air of Ten-
demanded that Attorney General Ja-
nessee - and a White House coun-
net Reno appoint a special counsel to
sel's threat to the FBI that if the
investigate the affair.
agency did not help investigate ru-
Mr. Wolf said he has repeatedly
mors of wrongdoing in the travel of-
asked IRS Commissioner Peggy
fice, he would call in the IRS.
Richardson to brief him on-IRS in-
Ultra was dubbed a Republican
volvement, but she has canceled sev-
airline by Clinton allies seeking to
eral meetings at the last minute.
take over the travel office, according
While Mr. Wolf was discussing the
to a confidential memo revealed in
case with a reporter yesterday the
the White House report.
commissioner nixed a meeting that
The memo, written by a business
was to have taken place today.
THE NEW YORK TIMES. SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1993
Report on Travel Office Incident Didn't Pull Any Punches
To the Editor:
"acquit ourselves of anything much
management was lax and insensitive
Your description of the manage-
worse than bad appearances.' Not so.
to appearance of conflict of interest.
ment review we issued July 2 on the
The report concludes that. even
Our review closed with a repri-
White House Travel Office as "A
though all White House employees
mand of an assistant to the President.
Stealthy, Evasive Confession" (edito-
serve at the pleasure of the Presi-
an associate White House counsel and
rial. July 11) misses the mark. The
dent, the abrupt manner of the dis-
the deputy communications director.
report gives a thorough account of
missals was unnecessary and insensi-
It further states that the chief of staff.
what happened in the Travel Office
live: that the disclosure of the Fed-
along with the White House counsel's
incident. We haven't pulled punches.
eral Bureau of Investigation inquiry
office, could have contained the mo-
We have catalogued our mistakes,
was a mistake; that involving the
mentum of the incident, but did not.
reprimanding those most responsi-
F.B.I.'s head of public and Congres-
Where we do focus on appearances,
ble. We have established procedures
sional relations in a White House
you miss our point. Although we
to insure that such mistakes don't
communication meeting was improp-
found no evidence that the White
happen again. And apologized to
er: that any reference to using the
House prompted the F.B.I.'s head of
those unfairly treated. That's hardly
Internal Revenue Service to investi-
public and Congressional relations to
business as usual in Washington.
gate the problems in the Travel Of-
say anything inaccurate or inappro-
News articles and editorials echo
fice was wrong, and that White House
priate, we condemned the meeting
our belief in the report's honesty (see
because the White House must uphold
the July 8 Atlanta Constitution and
the appearance as well as the reality
of F.B.I. independence. The report
July 7 Detroit Free Press). Your
NYT
also declares involvement of people
news coverage termed the report
with personal interests in the Travel
"strikingly self-critical" and called
Office improper because Govern-
its release "an extraordinary session
The New York Times
ment decisions should be insulated
of reprimand. self-criticism and con-
fession." in which the two of us "were
Company
"from even the appearance that per-
sonal interests have played a role."
blunt in admitting mistakes."
229 West 43d St., N.Y. 10036
While the Travel Office incident
It seems your complaint is that we
never should have happened the way
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
it did, we have at least faced up to our
The Times welcomes letters from
LANCE R. PRIMIS. President
mistakes, learned some important
readers. Letters must include the
LAURA J. CORWIN. Secretary
lessons and moved to implement
writer's name, address and telephone
KATHARINE P. DARROW, Senior Vice President
changes.
THOMAS F. MCLARTY
number. We regret that we cannot
DAVID L GORHAM. Senior Vice President
LEON PANETTA
acknowledge or return unpublished
and Chief Financial Officer
Washington, July 12. 1993
letters. Those selected for publication
MICHAEL E. RYAN, Senior Vice President
The writers are, respectively, White
may be shortened for space reasons.
RICHARD G. THOMAS. Treasurer
House chief of staff and director, Of-
fice of Management and Budget.
USA TODAY
MONDAY, JULY 19. 1993
Today's debate is on the White House TRAVEL OFFICE
and whether an independent counsel should be named.
Appoint special counsel
OUR VIEW
An independent
admitted a lot of bungling. It reprimand-
counsel could pro-
ed five aides and promised five of the
travel office workers other jobs.
vide a non-partisan view of the
While the episode will never rate with
travel office firings.
Watergate, questions remain:
Fair and impartial justice.
Were there really improprieties in
That's what the Clinton administra-
the office, as the administration alleged?
tion needs in the wake of charges of cTo-
Did the White House act properly
nyism and abuse of power about its han-
in pushing an FBI investigation?
dling of the White House travel office.
Why was a distant Clinton cousin
And that's why the president should
who helped get the travel workers fired
not just heed Senate Minority Leader
appointed to head the travel office? And
Bob Dole's call last week for a special
what role did'a Hollywood friend of
Justice Department prosecutor. He
Clinton with an interest in a travel busi-
should seize the chance to urge re-enact-
ness play in the dismissals?
ment of a law that could provide a total-
An independent counsel could pro-
ly independent investigation - the in-
vide a less partisan portrait of what hap-
dependent counsel law, which lapsed in
pened and do so very quickly.
December. Clinton has endorsed the
Such counsels during the Carter, Rea-
law, while many of the Republicans now
gan and Bush years prosecuted wrong-
eager for an investigation opposed it.
doers, but they also saved reputations.
The White House firing in May of
Such full and impartial investigations
seven career employees responsible for
can do the same today. With a truly in-
chartering planes and reserving hotel
dependent counsel for "travelgate,"
rooms for the media was at first hailed
Clinton could ensure government work-
as cleaning up mismanagement.
ers, White House aides and the public
After its own review, the White House
that justice is being done.
No special counsel needed
Don't make a
most Americans are enormously im-
OPPOSING VIEW
mountain out
pressed by Reno's candor and integrity,
of the White House travel office
commitment to enforcing the law and
imperviousness to political pressure.
molehili.
Moreover, the travel office fiasco
The way the White House staff han-
comes nowhere near the penumbra of
dled reorganization of the travel office
potential criminal behavior: that might
was nothing to write home about. But
justify an independent special counsel.
the whole affair is a
Harry Thomason may have broken
molehill, not the
the first rule of how to be a president's
mountain that Bob
friend - never to create the appearance
Dole and his fellow
of serving one's own interests, or of
Republicans have
throwing one's weight around with the
been trying to make
White House staff. But these are not
of it. His latest ploy is
criminal activities, and the explicit criti-
to demand that the
cism in the McLarty-Panetta report
attorney general ap-
By Lloyd N. Cut-
seems sufficient punishment for his
point a "special coun-
ler, a Washington
lawyer who
transgressions. The same applies to the
sel" to conduct an
served as coun-
personal ambition and excessive zeal
"independent investi-
sel to President
displayed by some White House staffers.
gation." He dismisses
Jimmy Carter.
The travel office affair is no Watergate
the McLarty-Panetta
or Iran-contra. It should lead to healthy
report, which the press has described as
changes in the way a new White House
"surprisingly candid," "strikingly self-
staff behaves and in the accounting and
critical" and "gratifyingly forthright."
contracting procedures of the travel of-
He also belittles the president's decision
fice. These are worthy subjects for re-
to ask Attorney General Janet Reno to
view by the attorney general and the
review the report, as she is now doing.
General Accounting Office, whose re-
Apparently, Dole does not trust Reno
port is due in September. But they do
and the Justice Department profession-
not come close to the kind of suspected
als to conduct an impartial review. He
criminal activity that would justify ap-
should know better. He should know
pointment of an independent counsel.
An independent Travelgate investigation
emember Passportgate? How soon scandals
Justice Department, however, now says it will do no
R®
are forgotten, even ones involving allegations
such thing, that the investigation under way by the
of political dirty tricks, such as the accu-
department will be sufficient. "The appointment of an
sation that Bush administration officials
independent counsel is reserved for extraordinary cir-
went through candidate Bill Clinton's passport file
cumstances," wrote Acting Assistant Attorney General
looking for dirt. But even though that controversy has
John Keeney to the Landmark Legal Foundation,
slipped from the front pages of The Washington Post,
"where there is a compelling reason to believe that an
there are still busy prosecutors going through the evi-
investigation or prosecution by the Department of Jus-
dence, as an independent counsel labors on in search
tice would be compromised by an actual or perceived
of indictments. Lawrence Walsh, too, is still at it on
conflict of interest."
Iran-Contra.
Mr. Keeney has got to be kidding if he does not think
The age of the independent counsels is over for now,
there is already a strong perception of conflicts of
thank goodness, as the independent counsel statute
interest in the Justice Department's handling of the
lapsed in December. (Congress will probably revive it
case. The FBI - an arm of the Justice Department -
in some form, alas.) Yet the need for independent inves-
was enmeshed in the fiasco, manipulated, it appears,
tigations has not lapsed. Indeed, given the cronyism
into both investigations and public relations to cover
that sometimes comes on display, the Clinton White
backsides in the White House, all at a time when the
House ought to be eager to establish public confidence
bureau's director was desperately trying to convince
in its ability to police itself. One way to do so would be
the administration that he should remain in office. The
for the president to ask for the appointment of an
perception, at the very least, is there. The politicization
independent counsel to investigate Travelgate, the du-
of the FBI is reason enough to call for a nonpolitical
bious firing of the entire White House travel office
investigation.
staff.
Add to that the questions that have been raised
That is not going to happen, it seems. The Landmark
about the involvement of the Internal Revenue Service.
Legal Foundation had asked Attorney General Janet
And the initial disposition of the travel office business.
Reno to start an independent investigation by ap-
By Mr. Keeney's own standards, then - "a compelling
pointing some retired prosecutor or judge to look into
reason to believe that an investigation or prosecution
the affair. Though the independent counsel statute has
by the Department of Justice would be compromised
lapsed, attorneys general have always had it in their
by an actual or perceived conflict of interest" - this
power to name credible independent prosecutors. The
is a case that requires independent inquiry.
Elliott Abrams and the D.C. Bar
he Christmastime pardon of four Iran-Contra
tious chief assistant, Craig Gillen, that they could nail
T
figures sure made a lot of people mad. Now,
Mr. Bush, president of the United States and the big-
the D.C. Bar Association has decided to visit
gest trophy of all, for knowing more than he had ad-
its own politically motivated punishment on
mitted. And it was Mr. Abrams' misfortune that they
former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
believed he could be pressured to provide information
Affairs Elliott Abrams.
that would further that end. When Mr. Abrams refused
Mr. Abrams, it will be recalled, pleaded guilty to two
- for he had nothing to reveal - the independent
counts of witholding information from Congress in
counsel's office exacted a plea of two counts of with-
1991, after having been pursued by the office of the
holding information from Congress from him, a mis-
independent counsel for several months. The true pur-
demeanor so vague that almost anyone who has ever
pose of the counsel's renewed interest in his person,
appeared before a congressional panel could be held
six years after the fact, as Mr. Abrams soon found, was
guilty Mr. Abrams, exhausted and increasingly impov-
to blackmail him into implicating other members of
erished by lawyers' fees, reluctantly agreed.
the Reagan administration in the scandal, preferably
Before Mr. Bush's pardon wiped his record clean,
then-Vice President Bush.
the decision by the D.C. Bar's Board of Professional
Mr. Walsh, it will also be recalled, operated on the
Responsibility in December was to censure Mr. Ab-
principle that an insidious conspiracy existed among
rams. This would have allowed him to keep his license.
Reagan officials to cover up their knowledge of wrong-
After the pardon, however, in January, this punishment
doing, even if they themselves had not broken any laws.
was upgraded to a 30-day suspension. At the meeting
Hence Mr. Walsh's prosecution against former Sec-
of the board last week, that suspension was upped to a
retary of Defense Caspar Weinburger, who had ac-
whole year. This is petty and vindictive. Nothing has
tually been one of the strongest opponents of the arms-
changed since December, except that the D.C. Bar has
for-hostages deal in the first place, but who was said
decided to play politics and register its disapproval of
somehow to have "concealed" the notes he had donated
Mr. Abrams' pardon. We hope the D.C. Court of Ap-
to the Library of Congress years before.
peals, to which Mr. Abrams has taken his case, will see
It was the ardent hope of Mr. Walsh and his ambi-
it his way.
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AUGUST
1993
Washington Times
113
Justice drops probe
TRAVEL
the office, which handles travel ar-
"There is no obstacle to their em-
ment
I don't want to rule it in or
rangements for journalists covering
ployment," Mr. Jones told The Wash-
out."
presidential trips.
ington Times yesterday. "At a mini-
Some of the five believe that only
From page Al
of 5 fired travel aides
The charges were made after
mum they will be in temporary
employment in the travel office will
foundation, and the White House
Clinton aides, including a cousin,
employment, if not full-time em-
vindicate them and repair their
ought to acknowledge they had no
Catherine Cornelius, recommended
ployment, soon."
reputations.
foundation" to fire the workers Mr.
that the travel office be reduced.
Mr. Jones said the five will receive
The White House has asked the
Al
attorneys said.
Connell said. "They ought to ac-
Miss Cornelius suggested that she
the same pay as they got at the travel
General Services Administration to
By Paul Bedard
not WASHINGTON TIMES
The White House counsel's office
knowledge that on their own that
run the office and farm out work to
office.
study the travel office and recom-
said it views the Justice Depart-
they made a mistake."
her travel company, which worked
"The White House is currently
mend changes to replace Miss Cor-
The Justice Department has
ment's decision as the end of any
"That's been done," White House
for the Clinton campaign.
nelius' call for a one- or two-person
dropped its probe into alleged
criminal probe of the five and trig.
spokesman Arthur Jones said, refer-
A White House investigation of
office.
wrongdoing by five fired White
gers a White House promise to find
ring to an apology July 2 by White
the firings found they were "unnec-
A White House
GSA officials are considering the
House travel office workers, foreing
them permanent jobs.
House Chief of Staff Thomas F.
essary and insensitive." The action
creation of a larger travel office,
the administration to put them back
"It's been an unhappy event for all
"Mack" McLarty
lacked "sufficient cause," and Miss
investigation of the
possibly as big as the pre-firing,
to work, possibly in the traveloffice.
of us," said Gerald A. Connell, who
Mr. Dreylinger, John McSweeney,
Cornelius "had a personal stake in
seven-person staff.
The Justice Department's Office
represents John Dreylinger, one of
Barney Brasseaux, Robert Van
the outcome."
firings found they
Since the travel office was reorga-
of Public Integrity told the five by
the five fired amid charges of cor-
Eimeren and Robert Maughan were
Miss Cornelius was to be removed
nized, the administration has used
letter they are no longer the "target
ruption and mismanagement.
fired May 19.
from the office as punishment. A
were "unnecessary
travel aides from other departments
subject of the Justice Depart
"The original accusation had no
Also fired that day were office
White House official said she is still
and insensitive."
to help make arrangements for press
ment's inquiry into the activities of
manager Billy Dale and his deputy,
assigned to the travel office but
and staff travel on presidential trips,
the White House travel office." their
see TRAVEL, page A8
Gary Wright. Mr. Dale and Mr.
hasn't been there since July 13 be-
White House officials said.
Wright are still being investigated,
cause of an illness.
During a recent Clinton trip to
federal law enforcement officials
"She's going to get a new job," Mr.
consulting with the five travel office
Philadelphia, top aides to Labor Sec-
said.
Jones said.
employees with various government
retary Robert Reich were ordered to
The five travel office aides
The spokesman said White House
agencies to find the appropriate
work 18-hour shifts in the White
cleared yesterday had been on ad-
lawyer Clifford Sloan is working
placement for employment," White
House travel office to make arrange-
ministrative leave at full pay pend-
with attorneys for the five fired
House spokeswoman Dee Dee My-
ments, while other aides helped with
ing the outcome of the investigation.
workers to get them new jobs.
ers said.
plans for a subsequent presidential
The White House initially said it
Mr. Sloan views the Justice De-
Mr. Jones said the five may return
trip to Asia.
fired all seven travel office workers
partment's letters to the five as
to the travel office. "That's still sub-
"This is screwed up," said a Cabi-
after a private accounting audit
clearing them of wrongdoing, Mr.
ject to further conversations.
net aide recruited to help in the
turned up financial improprieties in
Jones said.
There's no impediment to employ-
travel office.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 1993
the
Washington Times
(nore details)
White House set to rehire travel office employees
By THOMAS FERRARO=
WASHINGTON (UPI) The White House said Thursday that five travel office
employees abruptly fired last spring are no longer the target of
a Justice Department investigation and will be offered new jobs in the
government.
But press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the administration has no
intentions of returning them to the travel office or reimbursing them for
tens of thousands of dollars in legal expenses.
Myers noted that friends of the five have established an
independent
fund to help them'' pay lawyers' fees.
The five hired attorneys last May after they, along with two fellow
workers, were dismissed when an audit uncovered alleged financial
irregularities in the travel office.
A few days later, the administration withdrew the dismissals of the five
who had no control over finances and put them on paid administrative leave
instead.
The two that did control the money have not been recalled and apparently
remain the subject of the Justice Department investigation. Both deny any
wrongdoing.
An internal White House review concluded last month that administration
officials erred in publicly disclosing a federal investigation in announcing
the dismissals.
It said the action unfairly smeared the reputations of all seven.
Chief of staff Thomas McLarty apologized and said that the five who had no
control over office finances would be given new jobs in the government once
the investigation was completed.
Myers said that the White House was informed in recent days that the five
are no longer a subject of the probe, but refused comment on the status of
the investigation of the other two.
The press secretary said the administration was looking for jobs for the
five in other federal agencies.
Our commitment is to find them comparable employment, she said.
Considering the circumstances, however, the White House does not
intend to return them to the travel office, Myers said. She did not
elaborate.
For R&R, C'
ons S art W
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ka
sas
By Bill Nichols
Lake in nearby Springdale.
weeks in Little Rock earlier in
for 10 days though almost no
tion 93" and hosted the Whi
USA TODAY
The president read, talked to
the year before the death of.
one, including White House
House press corps' at a cookò
some friends on the phone. and
her father. And the family last
staff, thinks Clinton can stay
on the edge of the University
FAYETTEVILLE. Ark. -
was generally "just taking it
month made another mournful
away from work that long.
Arkansas.
President Clinton's on-again.
easy. not doing much at all."
trip home after the suicide of
Clinton is scheduled to re-
Near the Blair home, neig
off-again vacation finally be
said White House spokesman
close friend and deputy coun-
turn to Washington later today,
bor Quinton Farmer, 6
gan in earnest near here Tues-
Jeff Eller. Chelsea and her
sel Vincent Foster.
before heading to the exclusive
brought reporters a paper sac
day. with the president who
mother went water-skiing
Asked by onlookers what he
Massachusetts resort, where
full of fresh peaches to be
hates to relax finally giving in
The Clintons' stay at the 22-
planned to do while in the area,
he'll stay at a secluded home
while away the hours.
and slowing down.
acre Blair homestead - with a
Clinton said: "Rest Talk to peo-
owned by former Defense sec-
Asked how much trouble th
After a weekend in Vail.
big porch on the lake, tennis
pie. Have a good time."
retary Robert McNamara.
Clintons' visit had been to th
Colo.. interspersed with a fair
court and indoor pool - marks
This trip is to begin a wind-
Here in northwest Arkansas,
neighborhood, Farmer said
bit of work. Clinton. Hillary
one of the few happy visits the
ing-down process the first fam-
in the shadow of the Ozark
"Not much. I think they wer
Rodham Clinton and daughter
family has made back to Ar-
ily hopes to continue in Mar-
Mountains, Clinton is clearly in
all looking forward to it"
Chelsea hunkered down at the
kansas since they moved to
tha's Vineyard. where they are
his element. Local officials are
home of longtime friends Jim
Washington.
to arrive sometime Thursday
calling this visit "Northwest Ar-
Health reform hurdle, 1A
and Diane Blair on Beaver
Hillary Clinton spent several
afternoon and supposedly stay
kansas Clinton Summer Vaca-
Vineyard prepares, 2D, 90
The president's other lawyer
Foster suicide
"
lands counsel
I come to work every day.
I will continue to serve
in controversy
as long as the president
believes I am performing
well for him.
By John Hanchette
"
In the aftermath of a top White
House lawyer's suicide, a swirl of con-
Bernard Nussbanm
troversy has erupted around Bernard
Nussbaum, the president's lawyer.
Nussbaum. 56, chief White House
with the government when it has these
counsel, is a short, balding gnomish
kinds of powers," Nussbaum told
man who speaks in machine-gun
American Lawyer magazine.
bursts. with a brilliant grasp of almost
"The only leverage I had in reduc-
all subjects.
ing a $275 million claim to a $41 mil-
The New York Times, among other
lion settlement, $25 million of which is
media, has zeroed in on Nussbaum
covered by insurance - my only
since the shocking July 20 death of
strength was my weakness. My only
deputy counsel Vincent Foster - boy-
strength was the fact that this firm
hood chum of
was going to die."
Bill Clinton, pil-
Some critics say it is hypocritical
lar of the Arkan-
for Clinton to portray the S&L scandal
sas legal profes-
as evidence of '80s Republican greed.
sion - found
since his lawyer was a key player in
shot near a Civil
absolving firms charged with costing
War cannon in a
taxpayers billions.
Virginia park
"Clinton can't have it both ways."
overlooking
said Judith Best of the State University
Washington.
of New York at Cortland. "He can't
Authorities
keep attacking the legal buyout artists
have judged it a
of the 80s and still have their lawyer
FOSTER: Suicide,
suicide. but in-
on his payroll."
authorities say
triguing ques-
Nussbaum is proud of his work for
tions remain.
Kaye, Scholer - and for Clinton.
The Times and others have focused
"I come to work every day." Nuss-
on Nussbaum's failure to secure Fos-
baum said. "The judgment I look to is
ter's office for several hours, his recal-
not the judgment of The New York
citrance in letting FBI agents examine
By Matt Mendelsohn, USA TODAY
Times, but the judgment of history. I
Foster's papers, and a day-plus delay
LAWYER'S JUDGMENT: "The judgment I look to is not the judgment of
will continue to serve as long as the
in turning over to investigators a note
The New York Times, but the jupgment of history," says Bemard Nussbaum.
president believes I am performing
found without fingerprints and torn to
well for him."
28 pieces in Foster's briefcase, the sec-
gate. There is great irony here.
hattan law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fler-
A theory woven through the mys-
and time it was searched. The Times,
It was Bernard Nussbaum who for
man, Hays & Handler from extinction.
tery of Foster's death is that be felt
implying Nussbeum is covering up
days during that case sat next to an-
The Office of Thrift Supervision,
guilty for the counsel's office perfor-
something, wants him fired.
other White House counsel, John
charged with cleaning up the savings
mance in several White House stum-
So who is Bernie Nussbaum? And
Dean, coaxing from him an explana-
and loan mess, in early 1992 stunned
bles - failed appointments and mis-
why are so many pounding him?
tion of Nixon's self-taped and self-in-
the legal community by freezing 83-
handling the firing of the White House
First, he doesn't need the job. He is
criminating ramblings in the Oval Of-
sets of Kaye, Scholer and claiming the
travel office.
a millionaire. making almost $1.8 mil-
fice. Now Nussbaum lives in an
firm owed the government $275 mil-
Nussbaum has told associates he is
lion in 1992 alone. He has a house in
apartment at the Watergate complex
lion for "aiding and abetting" S&L is
proud of his work in such nominations
the New York suburb of Scarsdale, a
One Nussbaum aide was a bright
ure Charles Keating Keating was
as Janet Reno as attorney general,
Park Avenue apartment, a condo in
young lawyer named Hillary Rod-
jailed after his California thrift failed
Louis Freeh as FBI director, Ruth
Puerto Rico. a skybox in Giants Stadi-
ham. He used to laugh when she told
in 1989 at a cost of $2 billion-plus to
Bader Ginsburg as the latest Supreme
um. A confidant of New York Gov.
him her boyfriend was going to be
taxpayers.
Court justice.
Mario Cuomo. Nussbaum was billing
president some day.
The OTS claimed Kaye, Scholer
Nussbaum insists he did not inter-
legal clients at $500 an hour before he
In the "80s, Nussbaum was an ex-
had knowingly backdated documents
fere with the Foster suicide investign-
came to the White House.
pert in the lucrative field of corporate
to place Keating under more favor-
tion in any way, claiming he had to
A poor kid from Manhattan's Lower
takeover litigation, defending compa-
able but expired regulations, and act-
maintain the confidentiality of the
East Side, Nussbaum graduated from
nies against hostile buyouts - and,
ed "in furtherance of crime or fraud."
president while "balancing interests"
Columbia and Harvard Law to be-
more importantly, as a lawyer's law-
Nussbaum got Kaye, Scholer of
by meeting legitimate needs of investi-
come a top-notch prosecutor. In 1974,
yer, some of the big law firms in-
with a $41 million settlement and a
gators.
he was special counsel to the House
volved in those maneuvers.
promise never again to do what the
Nothing, he says, was hidden.
Judiciary Committee considering im-
Nussbaum won fame among take-
firm denied doing in the first place.
John Hanchette writes for Gannett
peaching President Nixon for Water-
over lawyers by saving the huge Man-
"There's no leverage in dealing
News Service
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
18,
1993
USA
TODAY
91
MARK LEVIN
Squeaking hinges in the
wake of Travelgate
Mark R. Levin is director of legal
affairs and the Center for Civil Rights
for the Landmark Legal Foundation.
n the ternoon of Thursday,
count of events. The report leaves
O
the impression that the first lady's
Travel Office. He clearly was not shy
May 13. the first lady
involvement in this affair began on
about using his access to the White
told [Deputy White House
Counsel Vincent) Foster
May 13 (with her inquiries to both
House (and the Clintons) to press his
that she heard about problems in the
Messrs. Foster and McLarty) and
case with senior White House staff.
ended on May 17 (when she received
But the White House report is stone
Travel Office. Mr. Foster repled that
the Watkins memorandum). But that
silent on this important area of in-
[Associate White House Counsel
doesn't add up.
quiry. In short, a number of staff
William] Kennedy was looking into
it."
Mrs. Clinton said on May 13 that
members are portrayed as inexperi-
enced and bumbling around,
"Late that afternoon, [Hillary
"she heard about problems in the
Clinton) saw [White House Chief of
Travel Office." There's no mention in
thereby creating "appearances" of
Staff Mack) McLarty and inquired
the White House report indicating
conflicts and wrongdoing. But the
about the situation in the Travel Of-
how she knew, on May 13, of these
brief discussion of Mrs. Clinton's in-
fice."
alleged problems. Obviously, the
volvement - which the report shows
"Foster subsequently [that same
first lady had communications with
suddenly appearing on May 13, and
afternoon] informed (Hillary Clin-
one or more people prior to this time.
just as suddenly ending on May 17
ton] that Peat Marwick was going to
With whom did Mrs. Clinton first
- is not credible.
conduct a review of the Office."
discuss the Travel Office opertions?
Finally, the Justice Department's
"Beginning Friday [May 14) and
Was it Harry Thomason, her close
participation in this affair raises un-
over the weekend. [David] Watkins
friend who owned a third of the air
answered questions. The Watergate-
assistant to the president for man-
charter company that was seeking
style manipulation of the FBI by the
agement and administration) re-
business from the Travel Office?
White House is just part of the role
ceived telephone updates on the
And what was discussed?
played by Justice. In fact, the Crim-
progress of the Peat Marwick re-
Also, on May 13, Mr. Kennedy
inal Division of the department was
view. He then talked to Mr. Foster
pressures a senior FBI official to be-
briefed by the FBI (presumably
about the review: Mr. Foster. in light
gin a criminal investigation of the
about the FBI's discussions with the
of the first lady's inquiry the pre-
Travel Office by telling the agent,
White House - on May 14. Specifi-
vious day, suggested Watkins update
according to the White Hosue re-
cally, the government lawyers pre-
her. Watkins then called the first
port, that he wanted action "within
sent at the meeting were Joe Gang-
lady and updated her about the sit-
the next 15 minutes and that, if the
loff, acting chief of the Office of
uation in the Travel Office."
FBI was unable to provide guidance,
Public Integrity, and Jerry
"On Monday. May 17. with Peat
Mr. Kennedy might have to seek
McDowell, chief of the fraud sec-
Marwick's field work and a rough
guidance from another agency, such
tion. Messrs. Gangloff and
as the IRS." [Of course, the IRS did,
McDowell later briefed John Ken-
draft report completed. Watkins de-
cided to dismiss the seven [Travel
in fact, begin an audit of UltrAir, the
ney, the acting assistant attorney
Office] employees. McLarty ap-
air travel company Mr. Thomason
general of the Criminal Division.
proved. Watkins wrote a memo to
and others had been seeking to dis-
Importantly, the White House report
McLarty: in which he stated that a
place, within days of this meeting.)
states, "[N]one raised an objection."
review of the Travel Office was
A second senior FBI official who
Last week, in response to a long-
accelerated in response to the ur-
soon thereafter met with Mr. Ken-
standing request by the Landmark
nedy (although the report does not
Legal Foundation asking Attorney
gings of Harry Thomason and Cath-
provide a date for this meeting) re-
General Janet Reno to appoint an
erine Cornelius. Watkins cc'd Mrs.
Clinton."
called Mr. Kennedy telling him "the
independent counsel to investigate
the Travelgate affair, Miss Reno said
This chronology is provided by
matter the Travel Office operations]
the McLarty-Panetta "White House
was being directed or followed at the
no. Actually, Miss Reno, who has
Travel Office Management Review"
highest levels of the White House."
been uncharacteristically passive on
released on July 2. It reveals that no
Mr. Kennedy, a former Rose law
this matter, referred the request to
firm partner of Mrs. Clinton's (also
John Kenney - one of the original
less than three times on May 13 Hil-
lary Clinton raised the issue with
the same law firm that Associate At-
Justice lawyers who had been
Messrs. Foster and MccLarty sep-
torney General Webb Hubbell and
briefed on the matter on or around
arately. It further shows that on the
former Deputy White House Coun-
May 14. Mr. Keeney wrote, in part:
sel Vincent Foster belonged to), was
"[Independent counsel] are re-
next day. May 14, Mr. Foster told Mr.
obviously very concerned that a
served for extraordinary circum-
Watkins to update Mrs. Clinton on
the Peat Marwick review, still under
criminal probe be undertaken im-
stances, where there is a compelling
mediately. At no time does the White
reason to believe that an investiga-
way, which he did.
Moreover, we learn that after the
House report reveal who "at the
tion for prosecution by the Depart-
weekend, on May 17, the first lady is
highest levels" was insisting on such
ment of Justice would be compro-
copied on a memorandum to Mr.
an investigation. Indeed, there's no
mised by an actual or perceived
indication that this was even ex-
conflict of interest."
McLarty from Mr. Watkins, titled
"White House Travel Office," in
plored by Messrs. McLarty or
Mr. Keeney further states: "The
which Mr. Watkins summarized the
Panetta. We don't know if the pres-
department is fully capable of as-
Travel Office review and findings, as
ident or first lady were interviewed
sessing these allegations, and there
when the evidence for this report
is no conflict of interest here that
well as actions that would be under-
taken - including the next day's fir-
was being compiled (it appears they
would warrant turning to an outside
were not). We don't know whether
prosecutor."
ing of the seven Travel Office em-
ployees, the assignment of Clinton
either of them knew about the pres-
Hence, while an independent
relative Catherine Cornelius to the
sure being placed on the FBI, or if
counsel was deemed necessary to in-
Travel Office (where she would man-
they, in fact, authorized Mr. Foster
vestigate the possible use of improp-
age the "procurement of charters"),
(Mr. Kennedy' boss) or Mr. Kennedy
erly obtained information about can-
and the interim use of Worldwide
to pursue such a course.
didate Bill Clinton's past travel
We do know that the Clintons'
activities ("Passportgate"), the
Travel (the Clinton campaign's travel
Travel Office affair - which
service).
good friend, Harry Thomason, told
abounds with conflicts of interest
Even by these accounts, it is abun-
"the president in late March that he
dantly clear that Hillary Clinton's in-
thought there was trouble" in the
and raises far more serious ques-
terest in the Travel Office was both
Travel Office. Mr. Thomason, who
tions about government abuse and
was granted free access to the White
misuse of authority - is said not to
intense and peculiar. Why, in the
midst of so many significant and
House, was frequently discussing
warrant such an investigation. The
time-consuming duties, including
the Travel Office operations with
truth is that only an independent in-
the development of a national health
White House staff, including
vestigation, conducted by a reputa-
care program, would Mrs. Clinton be
Messrs. Foster, Kennedy, Watkins
ble former judge or prosecutor, will
gathering information about the op-
and Ms. Cornelius. Remarkably, be
bring this unseemly episode to a
also participated in meetings on the
close. Until then, the public will re-
erations of a relatively small office
within the White House?
subject - at the same time his air
main skeptical.
More to the point, there are egre-
charter comany was seeking to ob-
gious gaps in the White House's ac-
tain the air service business from
79
the White House.
It's very possible that Mr.
Thomason was lobbying the first
lady, or even the president, about the
Washington
Tim
1993
The
TUESDAY.
AUGUST
17.
Ex-Soviet republics likely to shun
U.S. efforts to help resolve disputes
and this includes Russia," the official
More than 600,000 people have
By Martin Sieff
said.
been displaced by the latest Arme-
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Mike McCurry, the State Depart-
nian advances. The U.N. Security
The former Soviet republics are
ment spokesman, said the U.S. "goal
Council demanded on Wednesday an
likely to shun efforts by the Clinton
is to help parties in the region find
immediate, complete and uncondi-
administration to help resolve dis-
peaceful solutions to disputes."
tional Armenian withdrawal.
putes among them, diplomats and
"We will concentrate on cooperat-
But Azerbaijan's government is
policy experts believe.
ing in multilateral organizations
unlikely to seek U.S. mediation. Its
The fledgling effort - contained
such as the U.N. and the CSCE
leaders, also backed by the Russian
in Presidential Review Directive 13,
[Council for Security and Coopera-
military, toppled President Abulfaz
which is awaiting President Clin-
tion in Europel," he said.
Elcibey in June.
ton's approval - is meant to launch
Administration sources say
The new president, Geidar Aliev,
a U.S. diplomatic initiative to resolve
PRD-13 was prompted by two con-
is an ex-Communist Party chief who
disputes between ex-Soviet repub-
cerns.
ran the republic for 13 years under
lics.
The first was that Russian forces
Leonid Brezhnev. No one expects
It would also open the way for U.S.
were actively throwing their weight
him to seek U.S. mediation.
troops to serve under U.N. command
around in one republic after another.
Remote Tajikistan in Central Asia
President Boris Yeltsin
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. 1993
The Washington Times
around the world, possibly even in
The second was that the growing
is witnessing another bloody con-
the former republics, and for Wash-
violence in the republics could de-
flict. Its rulers - again backed by
ington to push for U.N. forces to be
the Russian military - are seeking
gic and International Studies.
velop into international conflicts.
"The Ukrainians don't want us to
deployed as peacekeepers and
That may already be happening in
to crush Islamic fundamentalist
bear on them to demilitarize their
border-protectors on the periphery
the five-year struggle between Azer-
groups. But here, the anti-Russian
of Russia.
baijan and Armenia, which appears
forces are at least equally hostile to
nuclear weapons, and they know
But U.S. diplomats say Russian
the United States.
that's the mainstay of our position,"
to be nearing a critical stage.
Mr. Schoenfeld noted.
President Boris Yeltsin and his gov-
Azerbaijan said yesterday that
Ukraine at first sought close U.S.
"The Baltic states would like us to
ernment will have an effective veto
Armenian forces had captured the
contacts. But Kiev now distrusts
on where U.S. diplomatic involve-
Washington after heavy pressure
play a larger role, but trying to bal-
southern town of Cebrayil and were
ments will take place.
from both the Bush and Clinton ad-
ance ethnic Russian rights and con-
approaching the Iranian border. If
"The Russians want to play a role
the troops reach the frontier they
ministrations to relinquish the nu-
cern over imperial Russian ambi-
tions there could prove very
in some of these disputes and say,
will cut off a swathe of southern
clear weapons that some Ukrainian
'Why do you guys want to come in on
leaders see as indispensible protec-
difficult," Mr. Schoenfeld said.
Azerbaijan and block the last re-
them?' said a State Department of
maining escape route for tens of
tion against Russia.
Energy-rich Kazakhstan, which is
almost evenly split between Rus-
ficial who asked not to be named.
thousands of refugees.
"I don't think there is a great deal
sians and other Slavs in the north,
"These are areas where Russia has
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Ak-
of eagerness among either side in
and its native, ruling Muslim
a historic role.
bar Velayati, visiting Baku, Azer-
the Russian-Ukrainian dispute to
Kazakhs in the south, might also wel-
"There'll only be a role for the U.S.
baijan's capital, Wednesday de-
have us mediate," said Gabriel
come U.S. support in mediating with
if the parties themselves SO desire,
nounced the attacks on Azeri towns.
Schoenfeld of the Center for Strate-
Moscow
space station, one vote can make
New Job
INSIDE THE
the difference. My vote was crucial
Bill Clinton's cousin Catherine
in the 216-215 defeat of this anti-
Cornelius was one of a few White
California-jobs amendment."
House aides to recommend that the
White House travel office staff be
BELTWAY
Close, but no cigar
reduced. Miss Cornelius, in fact,
Attorney General Janet Reno
suggested that she run the office
John McCaslin
didn't beat around the bush when
and farm out work to her travel
taking questions at her weekly
company, which had worked for the
news conference with reporters
Clinton campaign.
she, of all do-gooders, was singled
yesterday:
A White House investigation
out as Congress' top junketeer. The
Q: Are you getting any closer to
found that the subsequent firing of
liberal congresswoman took an
seven travel office employees was
astonishing 52 trips last year, all
filling the civil rights post?
A: Yes.
"unnecessary and insensitive." The
paid for by lobbyists and special in-
Q: Can you comment on that fur-
action lacked "sufficient cause," it
terests, to vacation paradises like
ther, perhaps?
said, and Miss Cornelius "had a
Honolulu, Los Angeles, Boca Raton
A: No. I mean, I don't know how
personal stake in the outcome."
and Orlando. And she often took
you define closeness.
Miss Cornelius was to be re-
along family members.
Q: How do you define closeness?
moved from the office as punish-
Lawmakers, as a whole, took an
A: I'm closer to it.
ment. Yesterday, we were tipped off
average of three lobbyist-paid trips
that Miss Cornelius had, in fact,
last year.
Our favorite caller is a longtime
Young minds
gotten a new job - in the
White House Agency Liaison Of-
resident of Falls Church, who tells
Ever since Inside the Beltway
fice.
us: "I was reading your article on
reader Richard Gorsky of Arling-
We telephoned the White House
Pat Schroeder's hard-working jun-
ton wrote a couple weeks back to
press office yesterday, but no one
kets and it reminded me of a trip
relay his 6-year-old daughter's solu-
there could confirm our infor-
out west my husband and I made
tion to curing our nation's economic
mation. So we called the liaison of-
last year. We were driving to Cali-
woes, we've heard from several
fice directly, and it was just our
fornia to see our daughter, and en
other parents about what their chil-
luck that Miss Cornelius answered
route we stopped at a rest area
dren have to say about various is-
the phone.
near Limon Junction, Colorado. In
sues, some of national concern,
Have things settled down for
the restroom there was posted a
some not.
you?" we eventually asked.
note just above the hand dryer that
David Hill of suburban Mary-
"Well, I'm not on the front page
Wonder why Bob McNamara voted
read, 'Push button below to hear a
land writes to say that he was lis-
anymore," Miss Cornelius replied,
as he did on Post directorships.
message from your con-
tening to a local radio talk show
"and that's a comforting feeling."
gresswoman.'
when "my precocious 61/2-year-old
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. 1993 The Washington Times
Nicholas Katzenbach, Robert
son, Justin, overheard [the an-
McNamara, and mother and son
nouncer] refer to Clinton's prom-
Here lie the living
Value of a vote
Graham - while this board contin-
ised deficit reduction as 'air bis-
The Washington Post's extensive
ued to be devoid of even the most
Congress may be in recess, but
cuits.' The following evening, at
obituary coverage of former Oak-
qualified blacks or other minority
that shouldn't stop us from recog-
dinner, Justin loudly broke wind.
land Tribune publisher and one-
groups," says radio personality and
nizing Rep. Jay C. Kim, a California
When my daughter asked 'What
time Post ombudsman Robert C.
Post shareholder Les Kinsolving of
Republican and the only one of 110
was that?' he replied that he was
Maynard was well deserved.
WPGC and WCBM radio.
new members of Congress to have
quoting the president."
But how could that Page One
Mr. Kinsolving added: "Director-
voted in all possible votes in the
Philip Bermingham, renowned
obit, as well as tributes in Style by
ship would have paid Bob $25,000 a
House. And we're talking in excess
portrait photographer of local stars
year, which he could have used in
of 350 votes.
(most recently he shot Gen. Colin
Dorothy Gilliam and Ben Bradlee,
have failed to mention that written
his struggle to keep the Tribune sol-
Powell for his upcoming speaking
vent."
"While many new members of
tour portfolio), tells us the 2-year-
in the record of the Washington
Congress may talk about the need
old grandson of one client "was
Post Co. annual shareholders meet-
to change and reform government,
roughhousing with his mother, who
ings is the fact Mr. Maynard was,
Hot air
actions speak louder than words,"
was pregnant, when the mother
for three years running, nominated
says Mr. Kim, who remained in
said, 'Be careful, Mommy has a
to the Post Co's board of directors?
Rep. Pat Schroeder, Colorado
Washington this week. "Real action
baby in her tummy'
Yet each year, Mr. Maynard was
Democrat, may or may not be sur-
can only happen through the voting
"And he looked at her in wide-
"voted against by such alleged
prised to read that we were
process. As we saw with the recent
eyed amazement and said, 'You ate
Democrat civil rights advocates as
swamped with calls yesterday after
amendment on terminating the
a baby?'
By Lois Romano
No Fun, Please
"The jokes were taught to by my
March Gala Underfunded
trainer at the company," Bernat said
summer tour guide from
yesterday. "They are part of the
A
The producer of the gala to
Landmark Tourmobiles says
repertoire" on the tours.
commemorate the 30th anniversary of the
he was effectively pushed out
Tom Mack, owner of Tourmobile-
March on Washington has found himself
of his job this week, after being told by a
which has a contract with the
rich with star power but dangerously short
Leslie
supervisor that the National Park
government giving it access to the
on funds.
Caron: Busy
Service was unhappy with his published
monuments-said Bernat was suspended
Curtis King, CEO of the Dallas-based
cooking up
remarks poking fun of various
without pay because his remarks were
Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
a new
Washington attractions.
inappropriate. He said he would look into
Inc., says he has had to resort to charging
business.
Brendon Bernat, 20, says he was
whether Bernat's trainers Club ouraged
costs for the Aug. 28"I Remember
called on the carpet because a
the spiel. He also denied the government
show at the Kennedy Center to his personal
was involved in this incident. but said,
credit cards.
Caron's Country Fare
Thomas, because "it was always a bit of
"We are totally controlled by the wishes
a circus. Too many photographers
He said the arts center even threatened
of the Interior Department. They set the
Leslie Caron is talking about
Every day one had to be on show."
to cancel the show unless payment was
rules for the tours."
Warren Beatty: "He asked me to
The 62-year-old Caron has long since
Tourmobile
received today. "In our contract. we expect
Bernat says that after the supervisor
marry him-but he was a difficult
moved on. Ten years back, she wrote a
payment a week before the performance
told him his suspension would be
customer," she says, with a girlish
collection of short stories and has kept
and that would be tomorrow," said Tiki
indefinite, he offered to resign and she
giggle. "I, I couldn't have survived."
up with her stage work. Her last
Davies, a
Washington Post Magazine piece quoted
readily offered him the necessary papers.
Caron, that French gamine of
production was "Grand Hotel" in Berlin
spokeswoman
him joking during a tour that FDR's
Spokesman Duncan Morrow of the
yesteryear, is sitting on the terrace of
a couple of years ago. And last year,
for the Kennedy
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins was
Park Service said the agency had
her new restaurant, a quaint place in a
she appeared as a severely cool French
Center. "We try
the "first woman to be in Labor for 12
nothing to do with Bernat's leaving,
12th-century village outside Paris.
mother in Louis Malle's film "Damage."
to make things
years," and noting that a replica of the
adding that Director "Roger Kennedy
work for good
CHECKING IN WITH.
During filming, Caron spent her free
Liberty Bell at Union Station didn't have
doesn't think it's bad If it takes a
time in jeans overseeing the
causes, but we
ANNUSARY
the crack, which is "why we call it the
mild pun to keep up the enthusiasm of
are a nonprofit
She's reminiscing about her glamor
construction of her restaurant in four old
drug-free bell."
the tourists-what's the problem?"
too."
years, when, as a tiny French thing
stone storage buildings along the Yonne
The daytime
1963
with a plump little face and wide blue
River that had been bricked up for 30
eyes, she seduced America in such
years. Caron would travel from her
march and
classics as "An American in Paris" and
country house up the river to do her
WE'VE HEARD THAT.
evening performance have been much
"Gigi." And America included Warren.
shopping, "and every time I would come
anticipated in the civil rights community as
Catherine Cornelius, the 25-year-old
watermelon-seed-
a fitting tribute to a milestone event. But
"I had just been nominated for an
across the bridge, I'd think, "These little
distant relative of Bill Clinton's whose
apparently not everyone is sharing the
Oscar for The L-Shaped Room,' ('63)'
buildings are SO touching. Somebody
spitting victory. The
allegations about mismanagement in the
enthusiasm. King said he sent out "over 350
"so there was a big dinner given in my
ought to do something with them.'
Democratic senator
honor. Warren was there. He took hold
letters-Denny's, Xerox-and generally
Five years ago, Caron and her son
White House travel office set off an
won a county fair
asked between $5,000 and $30,000," to no
of me, and he never let me go."
bought the buildings for what amounted
embarrassing chain of events for the
contest after sending
avail.
Her husband at the time,
to "cigarette money." So far, she has
president, no longer works in that office.
his seed a whopping
Paul Wellstone:
She had initially been tapped to head the
32 feet. He has no
Spitting Image.
What King has gotten is the likes of
meat-packing heir George Hormel, let
mostly locals as clients, but soon, she
FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1993 THE WASHINGTON POST
Eartha Kitt, Maya Angelou, Morgan
go instead, and Caron spent the next
hopes, Parisians will take notice. She
travel staff but recently turned up in the
plans to try his talent
White House office of agency liaison.
in Washington, however, where there are
Freeman and Halle Berry-all of whom
four years with Beatty. It ended, she
says with a tired sigh: "I feel as if 1 have
Mary Matalin turned the big four-o
even more talented blowhards.
have agreed to come at their own expense.
tells Post special correspondent Dana
built the Empire State Building."
yesterday, and the plan was to surprise her
. Ex-family man Burt Reynolds is a taking a
For them, King says, "it's a real labor of love."
on her CNBC talk show last night with
bit of a hit in the endorsement arena these
taped birthday messages from Bob Dole,
days. The Florida Citrus Commission pulled
Joe Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh and Tom
Reynolds's orange juice commercials this
DOONESBURY
Brokaw. And of course, her lover boy
By G.B. Trudeau
week, saying his marital woes conflicted with
James Carville-just in from Greece-was
the commission's happy-family image. Now
also prepared to stroll onto the set
the people at Quaker State Corp. have
YOUR MUSCLES, YOUR PICKUP
unbeknown to her.
announced that they don't want him. Said
NAMED HARRY, YOUR LOVE OF
A
PERSON-
HEY,
HEY,
THAT'S
The big news out of Owatonna, Minn.,
spokesman Benton Faulkner, "It looks like we
I CANTGET OVER
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yesterday was Paul Wellstone's
17, ROBERT KINCAID.
CAMERA NAMED TRAVIS, YOUR
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dumped him, but it was all coincidence."
EVERYTHING
LOVE OF VEGETABLES, YOUR
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Attention, Stage Mothers! 'Rascals'
50 WONDERFUL.
Kid alert: All kinds needed.
Universal and Amblin, meanwhile, are
Producers of "It's Pat" the feature film
hunting for some '90s "Little Rascals" to
about the androgynous "Saturday Night
star in a film based on the 30s "Our Gang"
Live" character, are looking for a child to
TV show. Aspiring stars and starlets need to
play Pat at age 8. (This
be between 5 and 9 years old and fit certain
should be rich.)
specific criteria from the filmmakers. For
Appropriately, both boys and
instance, a "Spike Lee type"-whatever
girls can apply.
that is at age 5-is need to play Stymie.
It's Pat now: But then?
A Step Backward in Kuwait
K
UWAIT'S government has now shut down
October. The election was held only after much
six human rights organizations that were
pushing by the United States, and only under a
pressing it inconveniently hard. The ruling
pre-war election law that restricts the ballot to one
emir does not care for public criticism and has
out of every eight citizens. But the government's
yet to accept fully the concept of a legitimate
opponents won most of the seats, and the assembly
opposition. The suppression of these small but
has become a forum for serious political debate. It
valuable organizations is particularly troubling
is, incidentally, the only democratically elected
because Kuwait had seemed to be moving slowly
body in any of the Persian Gulf states. The govern-
toward more democracy and greater regard for
ment's decision now to ban the human rights
law. Banning the spokesmen for decency is a long
organizations raises concerns that it may intend to
step in the wrong direction.
proceed against other critics as well.
The gulf war was not fought primarily for
The ban isn't the only sign of a change in the
democracy but for other reasons-to keep a coun-
atmosphere. In June Kuwait sentenced to death 16
try from eating up a smaller one and to prevent
Iraqis and Palestinians for having collaborated with
Saddam Hussein's Iraq from making itself the
Iraq during the occupation. But these people acted
dominant power in the Persian Gulf region. But
under coercion and, as the American advocacy orga-
during the months of the Iraqi occupation, Kuwait's
nization Human Rights Watch observes, Kuwait's
royal family, from its exile in various five-star
handling of their cases has been a good deal less than
hotels, was full of promises about the new day that
ideal. They have been held for long periods incommu-
would dawn for democracy when the emir was
nicado and evidently beaten by Kuwaiti security
restored to his rightful place. For many Kuwaitis-
authorities trying to extract confessions.
especially those who, unlike their rulers, stayed
Recent events have given Kuwait's emir and his
behind at great risk to resist the invaders-it has
family plenty of reason to reflect on the relation-
been galling to see how slowly and reluctantly
ship between their security and American policy.
those promises have been kept.
The American view of Kuwait's rulers will inevita-
And yet there has been real progress, most
bly be influenced by their treatment of the people
clearly in the election of the National Assembly last
in their small and defenseless state.
Sitting on
Spending
T
HE BUDGET bill that passed the House by
than 3 percent a year. But inflation is forecast to be
two votes and the Senate by just one
just under 3 percent a year, and population grows
earlier this month imposes greater disci-
another percent a year on top of that. At best in
pline on spending than it has been given credit for.
those real terms, this is a break-even figure. If the
Conservative House Democrats insisted on imposing
defense budget were to creep up a little from the
tight caps for the next five years on the third of the
current path, as new administration estimates appar-
budget that is subject to the annual appropriations
ently suggest it should, the domestic accounts would
process. The total of this so-called discretionary
be under even greater pressure.
spending is to be the same in fiscal 1988-$547.9
The appropriators have already been under
billion-as it is in the current fiscal year.
roughly this degree of pressure for two years
The flat dollar limit isn't quite as binding as it
now. That's because of caps that were set in the
sounds, because defense spending, which is
1990 budget agreement, which has also been
roughly half the discretionary total, is scheduled
underappreciated. To add spending, the appropri-
to decline over the five years. The anticipated
ators have had first to subtract. This year, the
decline in defense would leave some room for
competition has cost the president almost half of
domestic appropriations to rise, but not that
his proposed investment initiatives.
much. The domestic increase would be only a
To pass his budget earlier this month, the
hair's breadth above the projected inflation rate,
president had to promise to propose further
which means that in real terms, it would be no
spending cuts in the fall. The form that these will
increase at all, and not enough to make room for
take is unclear, but some members of the presi-
any new programs without cutting old. The
dent's party want to tighten the appropriations
conservative Democrats who bewail the budget
caps even more. The clamp-down has, however,
for its failure to cut spending turned appropria-
about reached the point in appropriations where,
tions into a zero-sum game.
as with entitlements, the mere enunciation of a
If annual defense spending follows the path in the
new cap-a spending limit in the abstract-is not
administration's budget-and if anything, it is likeli-
enough. If they want to cut domestic appropria-
er to be a little above that than it is much below-it
tions more, they ought to be required to say which
will fall about $40 billion by 1998. That's how much
appropriations. Is it federal aid to education that
domestic spending subject to appropriations-basi-
they want to reduce? Head Start? AIDS research?
cally the budget of the Federal Triangle, not coun-
Federal highway grants? A further aspect of the
ting interest or entitlements-can rise. The average
space station? The appropriators shouldn't have to
increase would be about $8 billion or a little more
bear this entire burden by themselves.
FRIDAY. AUGUST 20, 1993 THE WASHINGTON POST
PAGE A4 / MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1993 *
The Washington Times
NATION
POLITICS, POLICY AND ANALYSIS
White House hits press with dramatic rise in travel costs
by the new travel office personnel.
The one-way trip to San Francisco
class commercial fare for the entire
that people thought they were exces-
The prices had news bureaus
By John Bennett
The administration ousted the entire
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
cost each of the 114 reporters
trip is $8,249.45, according to the
sive. But we also have to cover our
scrambling for comparison billings
travel office staff earlier this year in
aboard $2,362.
survey. The average coach commer-
costs. And our contract with North-
from the Bush White House days.
The White House travel office has
a series of messy confrontations
A survey showed that the average
cial fare is $4,466.45 - nearly $7,000
west was $1.1 million."
sent a tremor through Washington-
over questionable accounting. Five
cost of a first-class commercial air-
less than the White House charges.
She said the trip was in accor-
One Bush-era billing for a one-
based news organizations with sky-
of the seven staff members were
line ticket for the same Washington-
The air charter billing did not in-
dance with a long-standing practice
way May 12, 1992, press flight with
later returned to government ser-
San Francisco leg is $1,355. The
clude ground transportation costs
of pro-rating charges for each leg of
Mr. Bush from Washington to Los
high charges for reporters who
travel with President Clinton around
vice, but not at the White House.
coach fare average is $833.
and fees for setting up "filing cen-
a chartered trip with the president.
Angeles served as a rough basis for
the country and the globe.
The bill that raised eyebrows was
The Far East trip took Mr. Clinton
ters" for press communications.
Only 114 reporters - not the 155
comparison with the Clinton leg to
The latest billings for chartered
for Mr. Clinton's July 4-14 trip to the
and the press corps to Tokyo; Seoul;
Those bills are coming later.
expected - boarded the jet on the
San Francisco.
press trips arranged by the White
Far East on a chartered Northwest
the Hawaiian island of Oahu; Des
Catherine Cronin, an accountant
Washington to San Francisco leg, she
The Bush Los Angeles trip cost
House travel office were shocking to
Airlines jet that included six legs
Moines, lowa; and back to Washing-
for the White House travel office,
explained. "That means the report-
$700, compared with the $2,362
some organizations.
beginning with a jaunt from Wash-
ton. Total cost per reporter: $11,443.
said news bureaus have questioned
ers on the plane had to bear the
charged for the Clinton San Fran-
It was the first big trip arranged
ington to San Francisco.
The average total cost for a first-
the billing. "I've had numerous calls
higher costs."
cisco trip.
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FOSTER, THE PRESS.
AND THE WHITE HOUSE
TRAVEL OFFICE PERKS
In the analysis of White House Deputy Counsel, Vincent Foster's apparent
suicide, much has been made of contemporary pressures in official
Washington, an allegedly now "get 'em" attitude on the part of the press. as
well as the kind of clinical depression that leads people to take their own lives.
Lost in much of this has been the seeming instant cause of much of Mr.
Foster's frustration, the Clinton administration's handling of the investigation
of the White House Travel Office, which arranged for the Executive Mansion's
huge entourage, including the White House press corps, to accompany the
president out of town.
Long before Foster's suicide, I found the press's handling of the travel office
controversy curious. The press coverage of the Clinton White House's attack
on the Reagan-Bush Travel Office was so vociferous that the initial allegations
quickly became obscured.
As a former White House correspondent for ABC News, I was even more struck
by a passage in the torn fragments of a note from Foster that was unearthed a
week after his death. "The press is covering up the illegal benefits they
received from the travel staff ," Foster wrote in what investigators now
believe is the closest thing to a suicide note he left. On this matter, at least
Foster was absolutely correct.
Among the many reasons the press corps loved President Reagan's frequent
vacations to Santa Barbara was that many journalists became connoisseurs of
wine in California and would use Air Force One and the attendant press charter
to transport, literally. truckloads of wine back to Andrews Air Force Base,
without benefit of paying state taxes.
Once near the end of Mr. Reagan's tenure, the press office advised reporters to
limit their California wine purchases because the State of Maryland, where
Andrews is located, had gotten word of the windfall and was threatening to
stage a raid.
When traveling abroad with presidents, members of the White House press
corps are granted the status of sovereigns, avoiding customs checks both in
the foreign nations, as well as upon return to the US. Indeed, many White
House journalists point proudly to expensive collectib les and furnishings in
their homes that were collected from around the world and on which they paid
not one penny of duty . to say nothing of shipping costs.
All this was abetted by the White House Travel Office, which Foster was
charged with investigating before his death, either by ignoring the
transgressions of the White House press corps or because they accepted petty
gratuities offered by journalists to overlook their activities.
In and of itself, all this may signify nothing. But taken in conjunction with
all of the other perks pertaining to the White House press corps it amounts to a
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kind of corruption that renders these reporters as unfit to respond, as George
Bush was in the famous presidential debate in Richmond, VA, when the
president seemed at a loss of words when asked. in effect: How had the
depressed economy affected him personally?
More important, if someone as wired to the system as Vine Foster could not
understand or forgive this egregious conflict of Interest when it came to
reporting on the Whit House travel office, then certainly there can be little
wonder about the journalists' loss of credibility with the general public.
THE WASHINGTON POST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1993
Costs of Clinton Travel Firings Still Growing
By Ann Devroy
Meanwhile four other employees are being paid
The Senate yersion of the Transportation bill
Washington Post Staff Writer
to handle the White House travel work.
will go to conference with the House version,
The firings produced a plethora of follow-up
which was completed before the legal fees issde
The firing of the White House travel office
Inquiries into how the travel office investigation
came up. A congressional aide said it is unlikely
staff last spring is turning into a costly decision.
as well as the original FBI investigation into fi-
Not only are five employees still being paid for
that the House would reject the spending, since
nancial improprieties were handled. FBI sources
not working, but Congress is about to authorize
it will be offset by a cut Dole proposed in another
said that investigation is "ongoing" because the
category of the Transporation bill.
$150,000 for their legal fees at the same time
five former employees retained lawyers, and oth-
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Roy Neel
the Justice Department is using its resources to
er lawyers have become involved, complicating
called the situations of the five "unfortunate." He
continue investigating some of them.
the process of interviewing witnesses.
The Senate yesterday, with no objection from
said the White House had "worked very hard to
A General Accounting Office investigation of the
Democrats or the White House, unanimously
provide them good jobs at good salaries." The
travel office affair also is running past its due date,
adopted an amendment to the Transportation De-
in part because key administration officials have
jobs under consideration are at least comparable
partment spending bill that appropriates $150,000
to the ones they held, he said. Each now is re-
been slow to provide information and documents.
to a legal defense fund. It will pay legal fees for
Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-1
viewing an offer to work in a federal agency, not
five of the seven workers who were fired and later
the White House.
Kan.) and Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) said
ordered reinstated on administrative leave.
they introduced the amendment to cover the
The seven-man team of career employees at
The White House originally announced the fir-
legal fees for the five reinstated workers be-
the White House travel office has been replaced
ing of all seven travel office employees and called
cause they were the "true, real-life victims" of
by four permanent workers, plus a subcontracted
in the FBI to investigate what it called "serious"
the debacle. They "woke up one May morning
employee of American Express who makes trav-
questions about management of funds. Aides later
only to hear their good reputations smeared on
el arrangements for White House staff. In addi-
acknowledged five of the seven had no control
national television by an incompetent White
tion, Neel said, the White House "on occasion"
over or access to funds. Those five were eventu-
House staff." They were accused of "gross mis-
uses employees of other departments, such as
ally reinstated on administrative leave.
management" and subjected to an FBI investi-
Commerce or Transportation, to handle out-of-
Following its own management review, the
gation, Dole and Bond said.
town arrangements.
your
White House announced the five would be given
Dole said each of the five had incurred a legal
The original firings were portrayed by the
jobs in government, although not their old travel
bill of $30,000 or more to defend themselves
White House as the result of gross mismanage-
office positions. The White House and the five
against the allegations and to get their jobs back.
ment and as "a cost-savings mechanism that
employees have not been able to agree on new
None of the five earned more than $60,000 and
would reduce the size of the travel staff yet pro-
jobs, but the five continue to draw their salaries.
some made significantly less.
vide the same service.
years, finding hotel space and
By Paul Bedard
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President's
ground transportation, and han-
dling other essentials as the White
When White House spokeswo-
House travel agent.
man Dee Dee Myers in May an-
nounced the abrupt firing of the
travel office
"I've seen this from a lot of dif-
ferent aspects," he said. "It's not too
travel office, reporters groaned.
different from what I've done."
Not only did they feel the
starts fresh
The travel office hires charter
charges against the seven men
aircraft, rents buses, reserves ho-
were false, they knew the dismiss-
tel rooms and sets up press offices.
als would ruin the well-established
Before Maj. Riewerts came on
office that arranged travel for
knowledge" but isn't looking back-
board, the office was operated by
White House correspondents.
ward. "We' looking to the future,"
volunteers and a couple of full-time
Seven months later, five of the
he said.
workers. One aide, Kris Engskov,
seven fired workers have received
Maj. Riewerts replaces Billy
has stood out, clearing travel plan
apologies and new government
Dale, one of two former travel of-
hurdles with his dry humor and
jobs, but the travel office had plod-
fice employees who have not re-
confidence. In one instance, a pilot
ded on. Until recently, that is.
ceived a government job due to a
of a recent air charter had no
Since Oct. 26, when a new direc-
pending investigation into the fi-
money for fuel at Andrews. The Air
tor was hired, the reporters follow-
nancial management of the office.
Force threatened to block takeoff
ing President Clinton on every trip
The Air Force Academy grad-
but a quick huddle with Mr. Eng-
outside the Beltway haven't experi-
uate is an old hand at travel oper-
skov got the press charter air-
enced the earlier flubs, such as be-
ations. He ran the office that organ-
borne.
ing stranded by broken jets or be-
ized airlift operations for the
Planning four major overseas
ing assigned a hotel room at 1 a.m.
government, organized jet traffic
trips for next year, the inexperi-
with no bed.
out of Andrews Air Force Base and
enced travel office hopes to leave
The new director, Air Force Maj.
scheduled aircraft for the White
past problems behind.
Steve Riewerts, concedes his
House. He was part of a pres-
"We'r going to get there," Maj.
young staff has "no corporate
idential advance team for three
Riewerts said.
Jewell's
was paroled in 1975 after he was
sentenced to four years in
pardons
prison for burglary and forg-
ery; and a convicted drug
dealer.
It was the drug dealer, Tom-
called
my McIntosh, 29, whose release
stirred most of the debate.
Many in Arkansas scoffed
that it was a payoff, offered in
exchange for dirty tricks the
legal
younger Mr. McIntosh's father,
Robert "Say" McIntosh, played
on Clinton political opponents
during the 1990 Arkansas gu-
By Jerry Seper
bernatorial campaign, or -
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
some Arkansas politicians say
this was more likely - as a pay-
When Arkansas State Sen.
off for suspending his attacks
Jerry Jewell granted executive
on Mr. Clinton during the pres-
clemency to two men and par-
idential campaign. One of them
doned two others while serving
was a handbill, distributed by
as acting governor on Inaugura-
Mr. McIntosh, suggesting. with-
tion Day, there was a public out-
out offering proof, scandalous
cry. But Arkansas officials say
sexual liaisons between Mr.
he acted legally
Clinton and several women.
A spokeswoman for Pulaski
"Bill Clinton told me he would
County Prosecutor Mark Sto-
get my son out of prison," the
dola, who initiated an inquiry
elder Mr. McIntosh told The
into the orders, said a review
Washington Times. "He told me
had determined the clemency
he had taken care of it, that the
and pardon orders, although un-
matter had been handled. We
popular, did not violate state pol-
had a deal, and he agreed to
icy or laws.
honor it."
The inquiry began after Inau-
Questioned by reporters
guration Day, Jan. 20. when Dr.
after the pardons were an-
Jewell, acting governor in the
nounced, Dr. Jewell neither
absence
of the men he
was in Washington to see his
had pardoned nor the crimes for
predecessor, Bill Clinton, sworn
which they had been convicted.
in as president, signed the par-
The documents. as it turned out,
don and clemency orders.
had been prepared in the office
Dr. Jewell, a dentist, signed
of the governor.
orders for a murderer who
served 21 years of a life sen-
tence; another man paroled in
1990 after serving seven years
for manslaughter; a man who
The
Washington
Times
MONDAY,
DECEMBER
6,
1993
81
Lawyers
Felersonal
The Clinton Years: An Open House' for Legal Help
like to ask questions. They don't like to sit
By David Segal
BIZ, From C1
around while others are asking questions."
Washington Post Staff Writer
Morin & Oshinsky; former travel office
To recap: there's often little money in it,
head Billy Dale, who is represented by
there are ethical minefields to sidestep and
Whatever else is remembered
years from now about the Clinton
Steve Tabackman of Tighe, Patton,
the work is often brain-glazingly dull. Why
administration's first term, on one
Tabackman & Babbin; former security
would any lawyer volunteer for this job?
point historians are likely to
officer Craig Livingstone of Filegate fame,
Some say they are simply doing their
who has retained Randall Turk of Miller,
civic duty. "A lot of people in the
agree: This White House created
Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin-and the list
administration don't have the wherewithal
a heap of work for lawyers.
Between Whitewater, the
goes on.
to pay for representation," said Harvey
travel office firings, inquiries into
Oddly enough, representing White
Pitt, an attorney who has represented
Vince Foster's death, the
House employees is rarely lucrative.
several former general counsels of the
so-called Filegate and several
Minus a family trust fund, government
Treasury Department. "But these people
independent counsel
workers typically can't afford the hourly
shouldn't be deprived of good counsel.
investigations of individual
rates-from $300 to $400 an hour-of,
Working for the government is punishment
Cabinet members, a small swarm
top litigators. In fact, few of the lawyers
enough."
of White House employees have
hired by White House employees expect to
But others, who are less inclined to
needed attorneys since President
get paid for their work. The rewards, say
identify themselves, say that landing a
Clinton took office.
these attorneys, come from reputation
high-cachet job with White House
enhancement-which can often lead to
"I can't remember anything
employees gets you on the short list of
approaching it, at least not since
paying jobs with far wealthier corporate
litigators sought by clients with far deeper
customers.
the Nixon administration," said
pockets. As ever, pro bono work has its
John Hume, a partner at Perkins
"There's a certain amount of prestige in
own rewards.
Coie who defended several
it," said Richard Beckler, a partner at
Fulbright & Jaworski and counsel to John
officials during the Bush
Poindexter, a national security adviser
IT MIGHT NOT hurt attendance at the.
administration and has worked in
under President Reagan who faced
Corcoran Gallery, but the fourth annual art
Washington for 30 years. "It's
Iran-contra allegations.
show at the D.C. law offices of Finnegan,
hard to remember more people
But there are certain hassles in this sort
Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
needing more-lawyers."
of work as well. Attorneys can't provide
starts today and runs through Friday.
These legal troubles are
free legal services to White House
Twenty-seven artists-attorneys,
translating into a mini-boom of
employees because the 1978 Government
support staffers or immediate family
billable hours, primarily for
in Ethics Act and federal anti-gratuity
members of law firm employees-will
Washington lawyers. Some of the
statutes prohibit freebies-including legal
show about 100 pieces. Prices range from
attorney-client relationships
services-to public officials. Often,
$50 for photographs to $2,000 for
include: former White House
attorneys avoid landing their White House
sculptures. Firm partner John Hornick,
counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who
clients-or themselves-in trouble by
who will be showing what he calls
retained Jim Fitzpatrick of Arnold
sending out bills for years on end, allowing
"nonrepresentational painting" and neon
& Porter; Margaret Williams,
them to work for nothing and go through
sculpture, admits that many people are
Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of
the motions of trying to get paid. And
staff, who has hired Ed Dennis of
skeptical about lawyer-artists. He points
there's always the chance that over time, a
Philadelphia's Morgan Lewis &
out that though nobody got rich at last
client might actually pay some of the tab.
Bockius; senior adviser George
year's show, sales were pretty brisk.
Worse, many lawyers say that working
Stephanopoulos, who hired
"This started as a way to bring people in
for White House clients is pretty boring.
Stanley Brand of Brand, Lowell &
the firm together, but we actually sold a
Sure, it can be exciting to join a fracas
Ryan; former communications
fair amount of art last year," said Hornick,
that's making headlines across the
chief Mark Gearan, who retained
country, but most of the labor involved is
an intellectual property attorney.
Justin Simon of Dickstein Shapiro
fairly tedious. Usually, the attorneys are
See BIZ, C5, Col. 1
preparing clients for depositions or are
IF YOU'RE A LAWYER looking for a
sitting by mutely while other lawyers or
members of Congress grill their clients at
family-friendly workplace, Working Mother
congressional hearings or grand jury
magazine has a suggestion: D.C.'s Arnold &
Porter.
appearances.
"The lawyers' role in all these situations
The office, which has 276 lawyers, is
is pretty passive," said Bill Taylor, a
just the second law firm to make the
partner at Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein,
magazine's list of the 100 best companies
The Washington Post
Taylor & Kolker who represents Lisa
for working mothers. The reason, as
Caputo and former White House chief of
Working Mother's October issue explains,
staff Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty. "Lawyers
is the firm's full-time day care center and
its flexibility when handling part-time and
flex-time work schedules.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER
Few of the lawyers hired
Staff researchers Richard Drezen and
Steven Ginsberg contributed to this report.
by White House
employees expect to get
paid for their work. The
rewards, say these
attorneys, come from
reputation enhancement.
Ad on Christian Radio Touts
Clinton's Conservative Stands
be talked to in this election. Those
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
people who listen to Christian radio:
are a significant audience as well."
President Clinton's campaign is air-
Clinton signed the Defense of Mar-
ing an ad on Christian radio stations
riage Act last month at 12:50 a.m. in
that boasts of his opposition to some
an obvious attempt to minimize public
late-term abortions and his signing of
attention. The measure says that if
legislation aimed at preventing gay
any state legalizes same-sex mar-
marriages.
riages, no other state would have to
The ad marks a significant depar-
recognize them as valid.
ture for Clinton, who has made sup-
John D'Emilio, director of policy for
port for abortion rights a cornerstone
the National Gay and Lesbian Task
of his appeal to female voters; his veto
Force, called the ad "both unsettling
of a bill that would have outlawed one
and offensive
It's unfortunate,
late-term abortion procedure has been
when he's as far ahead in the polls as
denounced by Catholic leaders.
he is, that he has to boast to a Chris-
And while the ad depicts his opposi-
tian audience that he signed the De-
tion to same-sex marriage as a politi-
fense of Marriage Act."
cal asset, Clinton has called the legis-
The president in April vetoed a bill
lation "one more attempt to divert the
that would have outlawed a relatively
American people" from more serious
uncommon procedure used to end
issues, and White House press secre-
late-stage pregnancies. In an emotion-
tary Michael McCurry has branded it
al ceremony featuring five women,
"gay-baiting, pure and simple."
Clinton said he could accept such a
The ad is a response to a Dole radio
ban only if it contained an exception
commercial, also airing on Christian
for women who faced serious health
stations in about 15 states, that com-
consequences. Abortion opponents
plains of a "moral crisis
in the
say the procedure is especially inhu-
White House" and accuses the presi-
mane and that the exceptions Clinton
dent of supporting "ninth-month abor-
sought could be used to justify virtual-
tions."
ly any such abortion.
"Don't be misled by Bob Dole's at-
Douglas Johnson, legislative direc-
tack ads," Clinton's 60-second spot
tor for the National Right to Life
says. "President Clinton wants a com-
Committee, called the ad "duplicitous
plete ban on late-term abortions ex-
in the extreme," saying Clinton "is try-
cept when the mother's life is in dan-
ing to create the impression he would
ger or faces severe health risks, such
favor a restrictive policy while his leg-
as the inability to have another child.
islation would not ban a single partial-
The president signed the Defense of
birth abortion."
Marriage Act, supports curfews and
Abortion rights advocates took the
school uniforms to teach our children
ad in stride. Belle Taylor-McGhee, a
discipline."
spokeswoman for the National Abor-
"This is why a majority of Ameri-
tion and Reproductive Rights Action
cans don't trust Bill Clinton," said
League, said the language "seems to
Dole spokesman Gary Koops. "You
be consistent with what the president
certainly don't see Bill Clinton cam-
has said before.
He's trying to win
paigning on the fact that he signed the
an election."
Defense of Marriage Act or favors re-
This is not the first time the Clinton
strictions on abortion."
camp has targeted advertising to par-
Don Foley, a Clinton spokesman,
ticular constituencies. A television ad
said the Dole ad was "a brutal person-
airing on black-oriented networks says
al attack on the president. It was legit-
that Clinton has increased funding for
imate to defend the president this
black colleges and appointed the most
way.
There are a lot of people to
diverse Cabinet in history.
Washington
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996
Fill Personal
That Mr. Wilson can't easily be pigeon-
The night that his wife and children left
The church boasted among its mem-
him, "my chest hurt so bad I went to the
bers a professional gospel-singing quartet
Journey
holed reflects a life that itself is full of
complexities. ironies and luck good and
hospital, he says. But before the end of
known as the Norfleet Brothers. Mr. Wil-
the next day, Mr. Wilson says he had 18job
son beggèd to sing with the group; they
bad. His story, corroborated by friends,
offers from other McDonald's.
politely declined. So for five years Mr.
illie L. Wilson
business associates and family members,
features a failed marriage, the death of a
Banking on Help
Wilson occasionally followed them around
the country, watching them perform, all
son to gang violence and an embrace of
He went to work this time for a black
From Poverty
the while working on his voice. He would
black-nationalist politics that leave him
owner, but after another five years in the
show up for rehearsals and "he kept
critical of African-American organizations
McDonald's system, he also had a plan. He
black Philanthropy
that depend on white charity for their
struggling,' recalls Joseph Norfleet, 72,
wanted to provide for his estranged family,
one of the two surviving brothers. Finally,
existence. His story also features two
and he thought he now knew enough about
the Norfleets relented. Partly buoyed by
guardian angels-one black, one a wealthy
McDonald's to own one himself.
this success, Mr. Wilson decided that the
Swept Floors at First
white man: the late Ray Kroc, the founder
One small problem: He had no money
of McDonald's Corp.
best way to serve God would be to create a
to put up.
And Later Mopped Up
Life for Mr. Wilson began with few
gospel TV show. "I could spread the gospel
By this time, religion, always impor-
around the United States and the world
outward prospects. He was born in Gilbert,
tant to Mr. Wilson, had become an even
In the Gospel Business
La., one of 11 children of sharecroppers
and people could be saved by it, he says.
more integral part of his life. For years
Douglas and Lula Mae Wilson. As a child,
he had tithed 10% of his salary, in some
Mr. Wilson plunked $400,000 of his own
he chopped cotton and hay for 25 cents a
years only $135 a week, to Christ Temple
money - and $200,000 in loans - into an
Of Farrakhan and Angels
day. School was a luxury in-between the
Baptist Church - generosity that had been
effort to produce pilots to pitch Chicago TV
long crop seasons.
a source of family dissension
stations. Between production snags and
AI
At 13, he left home to find a job and
So, after praying on it, Mr. Wilson
poor advice from consultants. the effort
landed in a work camp in South Florida,
turned into a $600.000 loss.
decided there was only one route to his own
By DOROTHY J. GAITER
where the pay for picking vegetables never
Later, however. Johnathan Rodgers,
franchise: He would just call McDonald's
staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
quite seemed to equal the cost of room and
founder Ray Kroc. "Three or four times I
general manager of WBBM-Ch. 2, the local
CHICAGO Long ago. Willie L. Wilson
board charged by the camp's owners. So
CBS affiliate, was fielding ideas for new
picked up the telephone to call Ray Kroc
ran off from a Florida work camp, con-
one night, with dogs at their heels, Mr.
and put it down again,' he recalls. Finally,
programs, including a gospel-music show.
vinced it was virtual slavery. Hounds
Wilson and several young men fled. Along
He called for proposals and got none - ex-
he made. the call and a secretary asked
chased him, but he got away.
the way. a man appeared and told them of
cept "from Willie, who brought me 13
why she should let a total stranger speak to
Later, though he had no money. and
a safe place to find work. A few yards down
shows,' recalls Mr. Rodgers. now presi-
her famous boss.
only an eighth-grade education; he con-
the road, Mr. Wilson says, he remembered
dent of the Discovery Networks unit
Mr. Wilson briefly gave her his back-
vinced himself he
that they hadn't thanked the stranger, but
of Discovery Communications Inc. "He
could run his own
ground and added, "You don't know me,
he was gone. "To this day. Mr. Wilson:
business. No matter
but I might be the person driving down the
was ready to go.'
says, "I think he was an angel of God.
street who helps to fix your flat tire one.
"Singsation," the half-hour show, be-
that his career be-
Hard Times
night. I need help.
gan airing in 1989 and is now seen in major
gan as a floor-mop-
Mr. Wilson didn't get to talk to Mr.
black markets, including Chicago, New
per in a fast-food
Mr. Wilson did find work, making $13 a
Kroc. but he did get an appointment to see
York, Detroit, Miami, San Francisco,
restaurant. Like his
day picking crops, and later he moved to
belief in God, there
Miami, where he washed dishes in a
him. But when he learned that the McDon-
Tampa, and Jackson, Miss. It features a
are some things he
restaurant, all the while sending money
ald's chairman would be at a shareholders'
mix of new and popular gospel talent, some
home. After several months, he found
meeting sooner, he went. "I shook a lot of
white, and is alternately hosted by Mr.
just knows to be
himself seriously ill and had to ask his
white folks' hands to get to Mr. Kroc," he
Wilson and Detroit-based gospel great
true.
later,
says. "I told him that the only thing that I
Vicki Winans. For longtime sponsor Wm.
Still
mother for money to return to Louisiana.
had was my integrity and that I was a hard
Wrigley Jr. Co., the show "has enabled us
though Mr. Wilson
hated to do it because she had to borrow
money from the white man, and borrowing
worker. Well. he stopped and looked at me
to reach the African-American commu-
could barely carry a
$15 was like borrowing $1,000." he says.
and said, You mean more to me than
nity," says William Piet. Wrigley's vice
note, he desperately
Willie L. Wilson
anybody here. Come on, let's go.
president for corporate affairs.
wanted a place in
After convalescing, Mr. Wilson moved
away again and began bouncing between
The story - confirmed by an array of
But as Mr. Wilson's business `pros-
the church choir. He doesn't sing much
Please Turn to Page A14. Column 1
McDonald's officials was the beginning
pered. his three sons, Omar. Rashod and
better these days. but has made a fortune
of a long relationship. Says Roland Jones,
Terrell. struggled with the lure of the
turning his love of gospel music into a
multimillion-dollar business.
Continued From First Page
a black pioneer in the McDonald system
streets. spending time in and out of trouble
Chicago and New York. for several years
who knew Mr. Wilson: "Ray Kroc was a
with the law. Omar, 20. had even gone to
The 48-year-old Mr. Wilson is a rare
bird on the American landscape- self-
working at low-wage jobs, including as-
high school dropout, too.
He could
prison on a robbery charge. Mr. Wilson
sembling pianos, parking cars, installing
concedes that in his children's early years
made black millionaire and philanthropist:
relate to Willie being a sharp person and
ceiling tiles and changing tires.
his workaholic nature left him little time
Neither a sports hero nor a celebrity. he
having a lot going for him."
By 1970. he found himself broke and
for them. His divorce only exacerbated the
has made his money the old-fashioned
Not long after that, Mr. Wilson found
collecting unemployment compensation.
situation
way, as a quintessential can-do American
himself with a struggling Chicago fran-
in an America that hasn't always been
"I was in a rut," he says. His landlady
Last year. tragedy struck: Only four
chise, financed by South Shore Bank af-
kind to his aspirations.
suggested he apply for work at a new
months after his release, Omar was
ter Mr. Kroc put in a good word for him. In
Yet hurdles lack of education, racism
McDonald's nearby.
gunned down when a gang member fol-
the heart of a black neighborhood, the
and more than his share of personal tur-
As unpromising as it sounded, the
lowed him into his mother's suburban
store was a low-volume site with two or
moil and tragedy - have only made him
advice would change his life.
three other McDonald's restaurants near
Chicago home. His sister, Kenya, wit-
want to jump higher. "As a black male, I'm
A Fateful Move
nessed the shooting and was spared only
it, but he turned it around in less than a
not supposed to be here," Mr. Wilson says.
when her brother Terrell appeared and the
Mr. Wilson got a job mopping floors,
year. He insisted that employees be more
'I'm supposed to be in jail or on drugs. The
cleaning garbage cans and cooking ham-
courteous, ordering them to discard food
gunman ran off.
system didn't expect anything to become
burgers for $2 an hour. He made a good
that wasn't freshly cooked. Mr. Wilson was
But the nightmare wasn't over. Gang
of me.'
first impression on the white owner. Soon
obsessive about cleanliness and spent
members sent word to Mr. Wilson that if he
Independent Thinker
after he was hired, the restaurant's man-
money to replace outmoded equipment and
spoke out against them at Omar's funeral,
Quiet, unassuming. a little rough at the
agers walked out in a dispute with the
plumbing. He also transformed it from just
they would kill him and his daughter. Mr.
owner; in desperation. he asked Mr. Wil-
a walk-in, take-out restaurant to one with a
Farrakhan, with whom Mr. Wilson had
edges. Mr. Wilson these days lives in a
system of his own making. preaching a
son to run the place.
drive-through window and a dining room
become friendly after he contributed
kind of black self-sufficiency while giving
He did SO well that, after the managers
where customers could sit and eat.
money to a Muslim school, sent over 50
away-with no regard to ideology-annual
returned. the owner insisted that Mr.
He staged fashion shows and break-
security guards. (Mr. Farrakhan didn't
six-figure sums to African-American
Wilson remain in management. But he
dancing contests to create "buzz." And he
return phone calls seeking comment on the
causes. Though hardly a household name
balked at first, being unsure about manag-
became a highly visible leader in the black
episode.)
in even the black community. he has
ing a crew that was largely white: Still, he
community, giving to churches, business
Of the experience, Mr. Wilson says.
recently chaired economic-development
persevered. despite hostility from other
associations and Little League teams, and
"Losing a child is the worst thing that can
committees of the NAACP, Jesse Jackson's
managers who never forgave him for hold-
participating in a citywide jobs program
happen to you." Of Mr. Farrakhan's help,
Operation PUSH and Louis Farrakhan's
ing things together during their walkout.
for African-American youths.
he adds. "I will never turn against Minis-
and Benjamin Chavis's National African
By quietly going over the receipts each
His core store did so well that soon he
ter Farrakhan. I don't care what anybody
American Leadership Summit.
night, he even managed to fill in his one
bought three more McDonald's restau-
else says.'
Underlying his generosity is a real
managerial weakness - learning how to
rants. He soon found himself a wealthy
Despite his wealth. Mr. Wilson lives a
toughness: "If you're not Jesus, I'm not
keep the books.
man.
modest existence: He lives in a suburban
afraid of you," he says. Thus, pondering
In time. Mr. Wilson found himself in
A Different Tune
house with his aging parents from Louisi-
whether giving to someone as controver-
another management role at a new
ana and drives a Jeep Cherokee: When he
McDonald's opened by the same owner.
One day in 1988 when Mr. Wilson was
sial as Mr. Farrakhan is the right thing to
schedules a business lunch with prospec-
do, he says. "I may not agree with every-
But the racial tension of his previous job
sitting in church thinking, he says, about
tive advertisers or TV executives, he in-
turned to open hostility. Some whites he
how generous God had been, the choir
thing they say and do, but if their heart is
sists they meet him at Gladys's a soul-food
disciplined complained to their friends and
started singing, "What Shall I Render
in trying to help black people, then I'm
restaurant on Chicago's South Side. Every
Unto the Lord?" In tears, he decided his
going to give them help.'
parents, and Mr. Wilson endured threats-
day. he breakfasts there on fried pork
Those who know Mr. Wilson are hardly
once he was told to leave town.
life needed a more "spiritual outlet." He
jettisoned all but one of his McDonald's
chops, eggs over medium and orange
surprised by his success, or his generosity.
"I had planned to leave anyway," he
juice.
recalls, "but I decided I wouldn't let them
restaurants (practically giving one to an
"He has a Ph.D. from the university
Mr. Wilson concedes he could have
older brother and selling the other two)
of the street - what old folks would call
run me away. He stuck it out, won some of
been a better father and, though still
his adversaries over - then later was fired
and decided to dedicate himself to gospel
Mother Wit,' says Reginald Webb, a
estranged from his wife and his daughter,
music.
Pomona, Calif., business associate. Adds
when he asked for a promotion.
Kenya, 24, his remaining two sons, Ra-
For years, Mr. Wilson had created
Jimmie L. Daniels, a former president of
Years had passed and Mr. Wilson had
shod, 19, and Terrell, 18, now work for him
Operation PUSH. which has benefited
married in the interim. The 16-hour days at
something of a stir in Christ Temple
at his remaining McDonald's. Rashod
McDonald's had taken their toll and his
Baptist Church with his singing efforts.
from Mr. Wilson's giving: "Willie is
characterizes Mr. Wilson as a "good fa-
Tone deaf, he concedes he "couldn't hold a
straightforward" and dedicated to the no-
marriage, he says, turned increasingly
ther" intent on "turning me around. He
bitter. Two days after his firing, his wife
note." His pastor, the Rev. Princeton
tion that African-Americans will benefit
has gotten Rashod interested in church,
left him. taking their four children, Kenya,
McKinley, nonetheless let him sing solo.
more from "jobs than government entitle-
while prodding him to think about getting
ments.
Omar, Rashod and Terrell, with her. They
He would gently admonish the congrega-
tion: "Listen to the words, not how it
his high-school diploma and perhaps open-
would eventually divorce and Mr. Wilson's
ing his own McDonald's one day. his son
sounds.
relationship with his children, though he
says.
continues to help provide for their support,
In the interim, Mr. Wilson continues to
would grow strained.
spread his money around the African-
American community. Beyond his gifts to
high-profile groups, he has for years given
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
tens of thousands of dollars through some
100 black churches that in turn help poor
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1996
elderly congregants pay their utility and
food bills.
Says Fred Rasheed, who worked with
Mr. Wilson on NAACP economic commit-
tees: "A lot of people forget the bridge that
brought them across and the people who
opened doors for them. But not Willie."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1996
By CARLA ANNE ROBBINS
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Issues Checkoff: Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON - In their first debate,
Robert Dole accused President Clinton of
running "an ad hoc foreign policy" that
NATO: Calls for an
NATO: Calls for ex
confuses allies and squanders American
international summit
pansion to include
credibility around the world. His solution:
to lead to inclusion
Poland, Hungary
firm and steady leadership, with clear
of some East Euro-
and the Czech Re-
priorities, that only he can provide.
These attacks likely will continue to-
pean-states by 1999
public by a 1998
morrow night during his final debate with
or 2000
deadline
Mr. Clinton, for
Haiti: Says U.S. in-
Haiti: Criticizes U.S.
CAMPAIGN
aides say they re-
tervention has estab-
intervention as a
flect Mr. Dole's per-
lished new stability
mistaken move that
sonal conviction
*96
Bill Clinton
China: Favors con-
Robert Dole
has failed
that he would make
a far stronger com-
tinuing Most Fa-
China: Favors con-
mander-in-chief.
vored Nation trade status
tinuing Most Favored Nation trade
Dole's Foreign Policy Record Has Its Inconsistencies
"The defining mo-
Vietnam: Decided to normalize rela-
status
ment in Bob Dole's
tions
life was when he was wounded on that
Vietnam: Opposed normalization of
Jerusalem: Calls for resolving ultimate
relations
battlefield in Italy,' says GOP Sen. John
McCain of Arizona, a top Dole adviser.
status in negotiations between Israel
Jerusalem: Supports recognition as
"His generation proved that you could
and Palestinians
the capital of Israel
make the world safe for democracy"
and "understood the obligation to main-
tain that."
telling a reporter that Costa Rica's Presi-
a senator wanting to aid Eastern Europe's
dent Oscar Arias wouldn't object if some-
new democracies and a newly invaded
But a look at the Dole foreign-policy
body "sort of blew away" Nicaraguan
Panama. It also helped the Bush White
record suggests Mr. Dole, too, can be short
President Daniel Ortega; then he cor-
House, fearful of floating the idea on its
on consistency and uncertain about priori-
rected himself by saying, "a little three-
ties. Over the years. he has contradicted
own. Sen. Dole's 1990 meeting with Sad-
himself on several issues he now uses to
day invasion wouldn't make anybody un-
dam Hussein also was a favor to President
criticize Mr. Clinton, including Saddam
happy down there."
Bush, who hoped to keep the Iraqi dictator
Hussein, Israel and expansion of the North
Different Roles
as a counterweight to Iran.
Atlantic Treaty Organization. "After
Political tacking and even stumbles are
Political ambition also played a role. In
studying Sen. Dole's foreign-policy record.
more excusable in a senator than a presi-
this year's campaign, Mr. Dole bitterly
it's hard to find a unifying theme except
dent. "The roles are so different that it's
criticizes the president for bowing to
"the threats of Russian nationalists" and
perhaps selling American grain," charges
hard to draw clear lessons," says Richard
James Rubin, a Clinton campaign spokes-
Haass, a foreign-policy expert at the
delaying expansion of NATO. In early 1994,
man.
Brookings Institution.
however, he too urged the U.S. "to be very
As a presidential candidate, however,
careful" about expanding NATO against
Like much campaign rhetoric, that as-
Mr. Dole is struggling to explain his own
Russia's wishes. And politics explains his
sertion mixes hyperbole with defense of a
foreign-policy vision and how he differs
May 1995 legislation to force moving the
president who has shown a less-than-
from President Clinton on substance.
U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusa-
steady hand in/foreign affairs. But it also
When asked in the first presidential debate
lem - a politically explosive symbol. Back
has some truth. As a longtime Kansas
senator, Mr. Dole relentlessly pressed
when he would send U.S. troops into
in 1990, however, Mr. Dole first supported
grain sales at even awkward moments:
harm's way, Sen. Dole cited a vague
and then disavowed a more tepid resolu-
opposing President Carter's post-Afghani-
"selective engagement" that he defined as
tion declaring Jerusalem the capital. on
stan embargo on the Soviets in the 1970s,
acting "when our interests are involved
grounds that it would jeopardize peace ef-
and fighting to preserve grain credits for
and not the United Nations." On policy
forts.
Iraq in the 1990s even after it gassed
issues from NATO to China, his differ-
With the Soviet Union gone, Sen. Dole
Kurdish civilians and just before it invaded
ences with President Clinton "at most are
has had a hard time defining his diplo-
Kuwait.
of degree rather than kind," says Mr.
matic priorities. He strongly rejected Pat-
A Lieutenant, Not a General
Haass, a former top Bush administration
rick Buchanan's isolationism to endorse
official.
trade treaties and the Mexican peso bail-
More significantly, foreign policy has
Dole campaign advisers are frustrated
out. But while advocating a robust defense
never been a top Dole priority. As a senator
by his inability to capitalize on foreign
budget and unilateral military action, he
and majority leader, he had a role in
affairs, and they partly blame the public.
has been unclear about when or where
every major foreign-policy decision of the
"The problem is [foreign policy] just
he would dispatch American troops.
past three decades-but more as a lieuten-
doesn't show up in the polls,' says Sen.
Sen. Dole adamantly opposed the U.S.
ant than a general. He loyally did rally
McCain.
intervention in Haiti and briefly tried to
congressional support for Republican (and
But their difficulties go deeper. "I don't
block its funding. He also seems to reject
occasionally Democratic) presidents on
think the problem is just Bob Dole.' says
the concept of humanitarian peacekeep-
key initiatives. but also smoothly shifted
Mr. Kagan. "The Republicans themselves
ing, criticizing Mr. Clinton during) their
sides whenever politics or political ambi-
haven't been able to articulate a genu-
first debate for deploying "more troops
tion dictated.
inely compelling vision for the post-Cold
than any president in history around the
"Maybe because he was majority
War world."
world" and spending "billions and billions
leader, he was more worried about gaining
Things were simpler during the Cold
of dollars for peacekeeping operations.)
congressional consensus. But he also
War. Like most Republicans, Mr. Dole
'There were times when Clinton
didn't feel that passionately about most
strongly defended the Vietnam War and
sounded more Reaganite than Dole,' says
things," says Robert Kagan, a Republican
the "Star Wars" missile-defense system.
Mr. Kagan, who prefers a more activist
who helped craft Central America policy
He was a skeptic on arms control, and he
GOP stance.
during the Reagan years.
opposed the Panama Canal Treaty and
Sen. Dole's ambivalence, or the politi-
At his best, Mr. Dole has shown great
South African sanctions. But even then, he
cal constraints imposed by his party, were
conviction on foreign policy. As a fresh-
was more often a pragmatist than a
even apparent in Bosnia, an issue that
man senator, he filibustered for seven
crusader, with priorities true to his Kansas
engaged his passions and principles
weeks to prevent a halt to operations in
roots.
early.
Cambodia. He defied his party last Decem-
Pragmatism and Loyalty
Back in 1990 - after watching Serb po-
ber to rally Senate support for sending U.S.
Many Dole contradictions can be traced
lice beat Albanian pro-democracy demon-
troops to Bosnia.
to pragmatism and party loyalty. Today
strators he criticized Serbian aggression.
But he can have a remarkably ill-tuned
he is a staunch defender of Israel. But in
By 1992, he was accusing the Serbs of
ear. His 1990 remark about Saddam Hus-
1990, he infuriated its supporters by seek-
genocide and compared their leader. Slo-
sein - "there might be a chance to bring
ing a 5% foreign-aid cut for the biggest
bodan Milosevic, to Adolph Hitler. His
this guy around" - has become a political
recipients and pointedly urged fellow leg-
policy prescriptions - lifting the arms em-
legend. He made an even more incendiary
islators to "stand up" to domestic "pres-
bargo and launching air strikes - were
slip during a 1987 visit to Central America,
sure groups. This made practical sense to
more robust than (those of the Bush or
Clinton. White Houses. But, given the
stakes, his ideas still were intentionally
low-risk.
Personal
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER' 15, 1996
Observer
RUSSELL BAKER
Just Saying No
A new poll reports that most
ren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge,
American young people don't want to
Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald
grow up to be President. I have inter-
Reagan, George Bush and William J.
viewed young people galore to find
Clinton. I'd rather grow up and make
out why.
something of myself."
Anita M., of Houma, La., says:
Austin K., of East Bat Cave, Tenn.:
'You think I want to spend my life
"I hear the pay is only $200,000 plus
being investigated by Senator D'A-
expenses, which doesn't seem like
mato? I want to be a professor emer-
much if you've got any ambition.
itus of the history of music and win a
Then, they're not going to build you
$1 million Nobel Prize for proving
something like the Lincoln Memorial
that Elvis is really dead.'
or the Kennedy Center until you've
Bert H., of Sans Souci, N.D.: "Sure,
been assassinated and it's too late to
it would be great having your own 747
enjoy knowing you're a legend. I
when you wanted to go out on Satur-
want to be a legend in my own time.
day night, but imagine spending time
So it's life splitting eardrums with
with those geeky Congressmen."
electric guitars for me. Go platinum
Saul O., of Salisbury Plain, Ohio:
and you're rolling in millions."
Bartholomew F., of Concave, Wis.
"If I'd known about the Presidency
Be President?
being a possibility I wouldn't have
done that little bit of pot last summer,
but what's smoked is smoked. Soon as
Thanks anyway.
I got to be President they'd find out
about it and my name would be
cursed all over the country, and then
I'd never be able to get an honest job
"I can't stand athletes. When you're
once I got out of the 'White House.
President you've got to phone their
Please don't print my name, O.K.?"
locker rooms after they've won the
(No, it's not O.K., Bartholomew F.
latest Greatest Game in the History
of Concave, Wis. The press has a duty
of Jock Straps and invite them to the
to report the truth, unpleasant though
White-House. Forget it.".
it be to do SO. Sorry about that, Bar-
Mavis W., of Eglantine, Ore.:
tholomew F. of Concave, Wis., but it
"President? You've got to be kidding.
should afford you a sound lesson in
Sit around the office waiting for a
the responsibilities of a free press.)
public-opinion poll to tell you what you
Mame C., of Elktooth, N.Y.: "Well,
can do? I want a job where I can have
I wouldn't mind traveling around
my own ideas- instead of waiting for
and seeing the world like Presidents
pollsters to have them for me. A job
do, and it would be nice to see Wash-
that gives me a chance to do some-
ington, especially since I can't afford
thing daring, y'know, without having
my high school class's trip down
to get a poll taker's permission."
there next year, but I don't want my
Macushla M., of Falls-by-the-Sea,
family exposed to all the dirt-digging
Neb.: "A kid would have to be out of
the media would do if I ever got to be
his skull to take a job where you have
President. My granddaddy did some
to listen to Al Gore explain how to
time way back for bootlegging and
toast a marshmallow."
my Uncle Al is too attractive to wom-
Rebecca E., of Kiddiebunkport,
en for his own good, and my mom -
Me.: "You can't have much respect
well; I'm not going to let the media
for me if you think I want a job where
broadcast all that scandal just so I
I'd have to go on television and kill
can be President."
an hour and a half arguing with Bob
Calvin J., of Sycamore Bypass,
Dole about the distinction between a
Mo.: "I'd rather grow up to be a
tittle and a jot."
partner in a big-time Washington law
Sergei R., of East Meow, Ind.:
firm. Then I could buy senators and
"You crazy? Why would I want a job
Congressmen for great. big, really
where I had to listen to Al Gore
cool corporations and they would
explain how to say no when some-
make Presidents toe the line. I'm told
body offers you a glass of poisoned
there is plenty of money to be made in
drinking water?"
this line, of work. What's more, it
Seamus A., of Alvarez Heights,
would be a lot of fun to buy senators."
Mich.: "I'm too ambitious to settle
Frogmore E., of Sandy Mountain,
for a job that can be done by people
Kan. Who in his right mind wants a
like Millard Fillmore, Franklin
job where you've got to sit around
Pierce, James Buchanan, James A.
listening to Al Gore tell you what a
Garfield, Chester Allen Arthur, War-
great President you are?"
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996
When Justice Is Hard to Find
The acquittal last week of South Africa's apart-
problem. The challenge is to find some legal way to
heid-era Defense Minister, Magnus Malan, and 15
punish crimes of ideology, not violence. Citizens
others for a death squad massacre in 1987 shocked
were angry because the government tapped their
South Africans who had presumed guilt. But in one
phones, turned neighbors into spies and measured
sense the outcome was not surprising. New democ-
everything by political loyalty. But these were acts
racies everywhere have struggled in the search for
committed by bureaucracies, not individuals. More-
justice for the crimes of past regimes.
over, they were legal, and cannot be criminalized
Seven black members of the Inkatha Freedom
after the fact. As Barbel Bohley, an East German
Party and ten white officials of the apartheid re-
dissident, put it, "We wanted justice, and instead we
gime were tried for killing 13 people, 7 of them
got the rule of law."
children. The judge concluded that the massacre
It may be that countries cannot depend on the
had been carried out by an Inkatha death squad
courtroom alone to achieve the goals of justice. One
created and trained by the South African Govern-
alternate way is through creative truth commis-
ment to fight the African National Congress. The
sions. South Africa has one, although its task may be
cycle of killings set in motion by these squads has
complicated by Mr. Malan's acquittal because it
taken 15,000 lives since 1984. But the judge said the
diminishes the threat of prosecution that might
prosecutor had not successfully linked the defend-
otherwise prompt confessions in return for amnes-
ants to the attack.
ty. But the acquittal also reinforces. the country's
President Nelson Mandela, who has a laudable
need for the commission, which is charged with
history of embracing judicial decisions even when
finding the truth about apartheid crimes and giving
they go against him, immediately announced he
thousands of victims - many more than would get
would accept the verdict.
satisfaction through trials - the chance to tell their
It is not the last word on justice for apartheid's
stories and receive some form of restitution, like
criminals. Prominent security officials have been
scholarships for themselves or their children:
convicted and more face trial. But Mr. Malan's
acquittal highlights the problems facing the South
African justice system. It is overwhelmed by cur-
rent crime. Prosecutors have been on strike for
Some nations have sought to get around the
higher pay. Mr. Mandela's Government, afraid to be
constraints of due process by ignoring them. Many
left with few police officers, never carried out a
of Germany's trials of its former leaders have been
purge. Many officers are still involved with the
reversed by its Constitutional Court. Other nations
criminal gangs apartheid fomented. They often
have instituted laws like lustration, which bars
block trials of their friends by destroying evidence
former collaborators from government jobs in a
and intimidating witnesses. The acquittal will be
process that presumes guilt and does not allow
useful if it encourages South Africa to dismiss
people to know the charges or present a defense.
corrupt police officers and give the courts the
The temptation is surely great for the im-
resources they need.
mensely popular South African Government to do
Other new democracies have not fared well in
much the same thing, to interfere with the judiciary
bringing past criminals to justice. Almost every
or rewrite the rules to facilitate convictions of
new Latin American democracy has attempted
apartheid-era criminals. But Mr. Mandela and his
trials of the murderers and torturers who populated
Justice Minister, Dullah Omar, have wisely de-
past military regimes. Only Argentina got more
manded scrupulous adherence to due process. South
than a few symbolic convictions - and even those
African democracy can survive even if some people
criminals were pardoned after the military repeat-
are wrongly acquitted. It may be permanently
edly showed its muscle.
crippled if the Government begins to twist the law to
Formerly Communist Europe has a different
suit the majority will.
THE DEMOCRAT
Clinton Relishes Signing Bills
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
No One Could Possibly Hate
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996
By TODD S. PURDUM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 14 -
He may be ahead in the polls, but
In His
President Clinton chose not to sit on
his lead today. Instead, he stood on it,
Own Words
atop a rickety platform covered with
raggedy red carpet in the parking lot
of the highway Holiday Inn here, in
BILL CLINTON
House chief of staff, Harold M. Ickes.
the high desert, where he is prepar-
'It'll show the bankruptcy of his
Speaking in Albuquerque,
ing for his second debate against Bob
N.M., after signing the
campaign. He doesn't have any ideas
Dole.
and he doesn't believe in his tax
Wildfire Supression Aircraft
Flanked by firefighters and two
Transfer Act of 1996:
plan."
big fire trucks, Mr. Clinton brought
For his part, Mr. Clinton said:
the full force of the Presidency to
This has been the worst
"I'm going to do what I always do.
bear in announcing that he had just
year for wildfires in nearly
I'm preparing to do my debate, to
signed the Wildfire Supression Air-
four decades. I think I need to
answer whatever questions may be
craft Transfer Act of 1996. That ut-
emphasize that because that is
asked."
terly uncontroversial bill passed
the importance of the
With the help of former Senator
both houses of Congress by voice
legislation we signed today,
George J. Mitchell of Maine, who is
vote and would allow the Defense
and the efforts that that these
playing Mr. Dole in mock debates,
Department to sell surplus military
firefighters and those whom
the President's aides are having Mr.
aircraft to private contractors to
they represent have made -
Clinton practice how to handle both a
help them fight forest fires.
the worst year in almost 40
testy type of encounter, and a more
"We can't tolerate a situation
years.
low-key one. He spent about four
where any firefighter is unable to
"The brave men and women
hours today in a prep session with
protect the public or themselves be-
who are with us today, and the
aides, before heading out for golf
cause of a lack of equipment, espe-
thousands of their colleagues
with Mayor Martin Chavez of Albu-
cially the air tankers that can mus-
put their lives on the line to
querque, Erskine B. Bowles, the for-
ter such force and power to fight
protect their fellow citizens,
mer. deputy White House chief of
fires," Mr. Clinton said as Jeff Bin-
our natural environment, as
staff who is'heading debate prepara-
gaman, the state's Democratic Sena-
they battle these blazes.
tion efforts, and Vernon E. Jordan,
tor and the sponsor of the measure,
"We owe them our thanks,
the Washington lawyer.
stood proudly at his side in front of a
and we should be deeply
Aides said Mr. Clinton had chosen
battery of local television cameras.
grateful that during this past
New Mexico for his training camp
Normally, of course, Mr. Clinton
year, despite the huge rash of
because it is an out-of-the-way spot
would not make such a big deal about
wildfires, not a single
that allows him to appear in local
such a modest bill, but these days he
firefighter lost his or her life in
Western media markets without
misses no chance to appear calmly,
a wildfire.
breaking a sweat. He is running com-
serenely, safely Presidential as the
"That's because their
fortably ahead in this state, which he
hurly-burly of the campaign end-
training, their dedication and
carried with 46 percent of the vote to
game swirls around hjm. His goal
because of the equipment that
37 percent for George Bush and 16
now is to make no mistakes, take no
they have been provided. We
percent from Ross Perot.
chances and generate no headlines
have to make sure that they
But the President, who arrived
but happy ones, and in that sense,
have the very best possible
here as the town's celebrated annual
Mr. Clinton is doing exactly what the
equipment at their
hot-air balloon festival was ending,
frustrated Republicans accuse him
disposal.
"
offered another reason.
of: running out the clock.
"It seemed to me that that meant
Today, the President ignored
Because White House lawyers
that there was more hot air here
shouted questions on less upbeat sub-
have ruled that Mr. Clinton cannot
already than any other place in the
jects, from campaign contributions
sign bills in public while on a cam-
country," Mr. Clinton told a down-
by a wealthy Indonesian family to a
new Fordham University study that
paign trip (that would be too politi-
town rally on Sunday. "And a little
found the nation's social well-being
cal; they decided), he signed the anti-
more wouldn't do any harm."
drug bill in his hotel room in Denver
had fallen to the lowest point in near-
and the firefighting bill in a confer-
ly 25 years.
Asked to react to the latest accusa-
ence room of the Pyramid Holiday
Inn off Interstate 25 here, SO named
tions by Speaker Newt Gingrich that
the Democratic Party had solicited
because of its ersatz Mayan archi-
tectural theme.
illegal campaign contributions from
As he drilled for his debate against
foreigners, Mr. Clinton said only,
"It's election time."
Mr. Dole in San Diego on Wednesday,
But no modest bit of good news is
and squeezed in a round of golf, the
President left it to his aides to reflect
beneath the Presidential notice.
in mournful terms about the pros-
On Saturday, he made a ceremony
out of signing one bill to finance
pect of stepped-up attacks by Mr.
popular water projects, including a
Dole and the Republicans
"1 think it'll hurt Dole if he decides
$75 million protection effort for the
Florida Everglades. On Sunday, he
to do, it," said the deputy White
signed another to increase penalities
for use of the prescription drug Ro-
hypnol - an anti-anxiety drug that is
already banned in this country, but
which has sometimes been used by
rapists to incapcitate their victims.
Personal
By ALISON MITCHELL
But Mr. Dole has done nothing in
In these post-Morris days, Mr. Ick-
the last month to cause a crisis that
es oversees the campaign and typi-
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 - When
would make the Clinton campaign
cally runs the conference call with
James Carville and Paul Begala, the
look for a new political thinker. The
the media team, pollsters and the
Clinton campaign consultants of
truth is the race hasn't changed in
campaign manager, Peter S. Knight,
1992, turned up recently to help the
nine months," said George Stephano-
at the start of the day.
President prepare for his first de-
poulos, Mr. Clinton's senior adviser.
bate, it looked like the moment that
Mr. Penn, of the New York-based
"It's been very, very steady."
many had predicted: the late-cam-
Penn & Schoen polling firm has be-
As the election draws to a close,
paign return of the populist team to
come a more prominent adviser
Mr. Clinton's aides divide his two-
replace the departed Dick Morris.
helping shape crucial speeches, and
year quest to keep the Presidency
But the two were gone SO quickly
media strategy. He travels with the
into several distinct phases that be-
- Carville describes his one-day
President and can sometimes be
gan after the devastating loss of the
role as one of "court jester' that
seen along a rally's edge at his per-
Congress to the Republicans in the
their brief appearance actually un-
sonal computer collecting the day's
1994 elections.
derscored something else entirely:
For the first half of 1995, the Presi-
polling data.
that Mr. Clinton is sailing along
dent's challenge was quite simply to
Robert Squier and Bill Knapp had
smoothly without the guru once con-
have anyone to take a second look at
been Mr. Morris's partners in the ad
sidered so indispensable to his politi-
him. "The battle for us was to find
team and continue to produce the
Clinton Campaign Finds Harmony After a Swift Exit by Morris
cal resurrection.
enough people to give us a chance to
commercials. And Vice President Al
The duties of Mr. Morris, who re-
make our case,". Mr. Sosnik said.
Gore, always a crucial figure in the
signed after reports that he had been
"Over 50 percent of the electorate
Administration, has become even
seeing a prostitute. have been divid-
was shut down on us."
more influential with the President,
ed among a campaign team partici-
From January through Labor Day
aides say.
pants describe as more harmonious
of 1995 this effort took place on two
Michael D. McCurry, the White
than it was with the quirky, domi-
fronts, with Harold M. Ickes, the dep-
House press secretary, said that Mr.
neering consultant present.
uty White House chief of staff, and
Clinton has not consulted with Mr.
The White House chief of staff,
Terence R. McAuliffe, the Clinton-
Morris since the day the strategist
Leon E. Panetta, now runs the week-
Gore finance director, raising early
resigned and that Mr. Morris had
ly strategy sessions in the White
campaign money to give Mr. Clinton
severed his financial relationship
House residence that were once Mr.
credibility. Meanwhile, Mr. Morris,
with the campaign and its media
Morris's supreme show. And a fac-
working from polling data assem-
team. Mr. Panetta has instructed
tionalism once so intense that as one
bled by Mark Penn of Penn & Schoen
White House staff members to refer
Clinton aide put it, there were "eight
Associates, according to campaign
any contacts from Mr. Morris to Mr.
staff people and eight food testers
officials, helped the President use his
Knight, officials say.
bully pulpit and a series of speeches
The Clinton campaign is preparing
to coopt traditional Republican
for a final blitz after the last debate
A big lead and
ground on social values and fiscal
when it will put advertising money
policy.
and the President into not just the
smooth political
Then from Labor Day through this
battleground states but also some
January came the budget battle with
normally considered beyond the
sailing are keeping
the Republicant Congress. Mr. Morris
reach of a Democrat.
had persuaded Mr. Clinton to en-
dorse the concept of a. balanced
But in terms of campaign themes,
things calm.
budget to allow the debate to center
Mr. Clinton is simply running out the
instead on how it would be balanced
clock, focusing on issues, like educa-
and focus on areas of social policy
tion that he has highlighted all year
around the table" has largely subsid-
where Democrats generally have an
and crisscrossing the country deliv-
ed.
edge over Republicans. But the Pres-
ering versions of his stock, upbeat
Yet as the campaign moves into its
ident, heeding other aides, never took
speech about the 21st century to rally
last month, it is also increasingly
the next step and struck a budget
after rally.
evident that Mr. Clinton, often heed-
deal, avoiding a move that might
Perhaps unexpectedly, the way
have diluted the potency of the Medi-
ing Mr. Morris and sometimes not,
Mr. Morris's absence can be seen
long ago made the crucial moves
care issue and split Mr. Clinton ir-
most is less in the overt campaign
that still shape the contours of this
revocably from his party.
than in a slackening of the steady
Presidential race and allow him to
The third phase of the Clinton cam-
stream of executive actions and reg-
stake out the political center.
paign ran from the 1996 State of the
ulatory announcements Mr. Clinton
"We defined what the debate is
Union speech through the conven-
used to make several times a week.
about." said Douglas Sosnik, Mr.
tion, a period that Mr. Clinton's aides
In part, aides say, this is because
Clinton's political director. "And who
viewed as a "referendum" phase
both Mr. Ickes and Mr. Panetta had
defines the debate first generally de-
when the public would judge whether
come to see the initiatives as exces-
fines it last.'
it approved or disapproved of Mr.
Another White House aide said,
Clinton. Mr. Morris in particular
sive, unfocused and too much for
wanted to use the months to drive
voters to remember. It is also be-
The election was last year," refer-
Mr. Clinton's poll ratings so high that
cause the President has had more
ring to the budget battle that began
in 1995 and continued into this Janu-
he would be able to withstand any
success with Congress and has more
subsequent attack.
bill signings to showcase.
ary, when the Republican Congress
During this time Mr. Clinton
But it is also true that Mr. Morris
made political missteps by forcing
turned to the "family values" issues
- who was as much a policy adviser
two Government shutdowns and
school uniforms, curfews, tobacco
as political strategist - was able to
leaving themselves vulnerable on the
issues of Medicare, education and
use by teen-agers that have drawn
rummmage through Government
agencies in search of ideas languish-
the environment.
Republican-leaning middle class
Mr. Clinton's strategists still ex-
families into his camp. And he per-
ing at an assistant secretary level.
pect the race to tighten as Republi-
fected the art of showcasing regula-
He then used his unique personal
cans finally come home to Bob Dole.
tory matters, small executive ac-
relationship with Mr. Clinton to inter-
And the Clinton campaign has been
tions and bill signings to campaign
est. the President in the initiatives,
sharply on the offensive at times in
by appearing Presidential.
jumping over several layers of bu-
the ad war, spending about $3 mil-
In these final weeks of the Presi-
reaucracy and bottlenecks.
lion, for example, in the weeks lead-
dential race, the Clinton camp is as
This was at once one of his great-
ing up to the first Presidential debate
relentless as ever in trying to out-
est skills and the talent that caused
to show a commercial attacking Mr.
manuever Mr. Dole with quick re-
sponses by aides and commercials
the most White House dispute, his
Dole's record across 30 years in of-
fice. The commercial was designed
intended to counter Mr. Dole's as-
former adversaries say, as other
to drive down the Republican's poll
saults on Mr. Clinton's drug policy
White House officials fought back
and ideology. "We're constitutionally
ideas they considered bad policy.
numbers so he could not come out of
the debate with a large advantage.
incapable of being complacent," said
"Dick helped bring a focus and
Mr. Stephanopoulos.
sharpened the focus," said Mr. Ickes,
who had often been at odds with Mr.
Morris. "He had a wealth of ideas,
some of which were good and some
of which were goofy.
The initiatives allowed Mr. Clinton
THE NEW YORK TIMES,
to use the Oval Office as his chief
campaign device, looking Presiden-
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996
tial instead of political.
If Mr. Clinton wins a second term
but does not bring in a sympathetic
Congress, he may have to consider
for the first time whether the exhor-
tation and smaller-scale initiatives
he has thrived on have much mean-
ing as a sustained venture. "Is this
as good a strategy of governance,"
asked one Administration official,
"as it is of election?'
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Personal
The Democratic Leadership Council
Wednesday, October 16, 1996
Character Test
After a bizarre series of trial balloons and public airings
(2) They are bewildered by the loss of the majority they
of intra-campaign discussions, it appears that the
won In 1994. Republicans still do not know what hlt
national Republican ticket will bow to the wishes of its
them between November of 1994 and today. They
warrior faction and devote much of its stretch-drive
never really understood the narrowness of their
resources to attacks on the character of the President.
margin in 1994. the fragility of their mandate. or the
Our guess is that this effort will at best solidify anti-
extent to which they benefitted from a one-time
Clinton sentiment among Republicans-perhaps help-
rebuke of Democratic rule of Congress. Some
ing GOP congressional candidates in the process-and
publicly, some privately, most Republicans fooled
could at worst backfire and lead to a Clinton landslide.
themselves into believing that their conquest of
After all, in measurements of "public character"-of the
Congress was a world-historical event that could not
values of each candidate that affect public policy-Bill
be reversed by conventional political means. Bill
Clinton has been repeatedly and emphatically trouncing
Clinton's successful blunting of the Republican
Bob Dole throughout the campaign.
congressional agenda in 1995, and his successful
maneuvering of Congress to achieve his own goals
In fact, the timing and advertising of Bob Dole's
in 1996, strike them as diabolical.
decision to get personal could itself become a
"character issue" in the campaign. Here is a candidate
(3) They think they have the moral high ground on
who has made it abundantly clear that he does not want
issues. Republicans have convinced themselves
to take this tack-who, as his own running-mate said,
that theirs is the Party of Virtue-by virtue of their
found personal attacks "beneath him"-but who is doing
identification with social conservatism. Of all Bill
it anyway because his handlers are begging him to, just
Clinton's "dirty tricks" since 1995. his promotion of a
as he abandoned two decades of contempt for big-tax-
"values" message and agenda most enrages
cut economics earlier this year.
conservatives. They are astonished that voters
seem to prefer the President's practical proposals
It is not that clear, in any event, that raising the
for strengthening the family's authority-such as the
"character issue" is a purely rational campaign tactic for
V-Chip, teen curfews, and flexible family leave
Republicans. Instead, it may simply reflect what the
policies-to their own approach of blaming weak
psychologists call "projection": an unshakable belief that
families on gays, lesbians, teachers' unions, and
the public will ultimately come to share their violent
Woodstock.
antipathy towards Bill Clinton. There are three distinct
reasons for the intense feelings Republicans have
The crowning irony of the Republican "character"
about the President's character:
assault is the effort to spin a sinister conspiracy theory
out of a questionable contribution to the Democratic
(1) They are furious at the President's unwillingness to
National Committee by the relatives of an Asian
campaign as a traditional liberal. As Yale Professor
national. As recently as the first Presidential candidates'
Stephen Skowronek has pointed out in a study of
debate, Bob Dole admitted that his party was helpless
"third way" presidents, partisans reserve their most
to take a single step towards campaign finance reform
bitter acrimony for politicians who try to redefine the
without bipartisan cover. What does it say about the
other party in a manner that threatens their own
"character" of Republicans that they are willing to fan
Ideological "turf." Republicans cannot accept the
the worst kind of xenophobic sentiment to score points
legitimacy of Bill Clinton's New Democrat message
about the opposition's low "character"?
and agenda: he must be a closet liberal who is lying
about his beliefs, or an unprincipled opportunist who
The bottom line is simple enough: the party that just
is stealing "their" issues. Either way, his character is
months ago claimed an ideological mandate to rule the
flawed. Unfortunately for the GOP, a large
country for decades and a monopoly on new ideas is
proportion of voters have abandoned the liberal and
now afraid to run on its record in Congress and
conservative stereotypes, and are looking for a
incapable of articulating an agenda for governing. The
"third way."
next three weeks will test the GOP's true character more
than the President's
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INSIDE
Armey Aide Writes Briefing Book
Acting Architect under
ON THE HILL
fire for slow pace of
On Clinton Scandals for Members
By Craig Winneker
reform, p. 3.
nvestigate This! It's been
Senate official tapped for
FilePersonal
By Ed Henry
crats have long accused Thomas of
"It goes through the litany of all
said that a grand jury could
FEC, p. 11.
The wife of Supreme Court Jus-
being a partisan dirt-digger for
the scandals that have surfaced on
indict a ham sandwich. But
tice Clarence Thomas has prepared
House leaders, a charge she has vo-
Clinton's watch," said the source,
can Congress convict a Contin-
Ready, set, organize,
ciferously denied.
from Whitewater and Travelgate to
uing Resolution?
p. 12.
an assault book on the Clinton Ad-
ministration that is being complet-
A GOP source said the book was
the sensational — and unproven -
At his Thursday morning
ed by the House GOP leadership in
still in draft form on Friday and
allegations about drug-running at
briefing with reporters, Senate
POLITICS
time for GOP Members to use for
would be completed by Monday so
the Mena, Ark., airport during Clin-
Minority Leader Tom Daschle
the fall elections.
that Members can bring it home with
ton's tenure as governor.
(D-SD) was trying to empha-
Leaders hit the road,
The scandal sheet has been pieced
them as they hit the campaign trail.
"Putting it all together in one doc-
size that Congress and the
p. 15.
together by Virginia Thomas, a top
As of Friday, the GOP leadership had
ument gives our Members a chance
White House were still far
aide to House Majority Leader
detailed a running total of 75 Clin-
to see the whole picture," said the
Continued on page 22
The last primary, p. 20.
Richard Armey (R-Texas). Demo-
ton Administration "scandals,"
Continued on page 25
COOLEY'S FAREWELL SALUTE
Ethics Drama Extends to Session's
Final Days as Panel Expands Probe
By Damon Chappie
the Progress & Freedom Founda-
and Juliet Eilperin
tion, that financed his 1993-95 col-
House Speaker Newt Gingrich
lege course on "Renewing Ameri-
(R-Ga) faces a new and unexpected
can Civilization."
investigation into whether he told
It is not clear at what point Gin-
the truth to the House ethics com-
grich may have provided inaccurate
mittee during its probe into the
information to the committee, but a
Monday, September 30, 19
Partisan Feuding on Government Reform Pa
Reaches Fever Pitch as Harassment Allega
C
Continued from page 1
say they genuine!
source. "It's a pretty overwhelming story of
Clinger is leaving
what [the Administration has] done in four
tee in tatters. "For
years.
out a career of ca
This shows the true colors of why they'
Waxman. "I think
been conducting all of this supposed over-
ing his Congressi
sight," said one Democratic source. "It's just
of a partisan hatc
a campaign ploy."
In particular, DI
Republican sources noted Rep. Pat Schroed-
ship aides like Th
Colo) used to read an annual Hall of Shame
strings on Clinge
about the Reagan and Bush Administrations into
cal gain. Newsw
the Congressional Record.
House Speaker N
Back in April, Thomas drew fire for draft-
er this month visit
ing an "urgent" memo to House committee
idential campaign
chairmen directing them to dig up damaging
gy about how to ,
information on the Clinton Administration
Clinton strategist
and union bosses (Roll Call, April 29).
with prostitute Sh
Thomas's latest work is being unveiled at a
A supermarke
time when Democrats are alleging that House
Rowlands kept
Government Reform and Oversight Commit-
Lady Hillary Rod
tee Chairman Bill Clinger (R-Pa) has allowed
Photo by Christopher Martin
Photo by Laura Patterson
request for FBI
politics to destroy the non-partisan nature of
GOP Rep. Dan Burton (right) alleged that Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski (left)
Macarena time at
legitimate Congressional oversight.
during a closed-door session sexually harassed two female staffers. Kanjorski has
It "was agreed"
Roll Call has learned that partisan rancor on
denounced the charge as "preposterous and libelous."
"would invite Mc
the committee has spilled over to the point that
Sure enough, (
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind) has accused Rep.
a-half-hour deposition from Craig Living-
In a rare on-the-record declaration from a
from Morris abou
Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa) of sexually harassing
stone, the former White House aide in the mid-
Congressional staffer, Democratic committee
A Clinger spol
two female GOP committee staffers, a charge
dle of the FBI files flap.
investigator Don Goldberg told Roll Call: "I
"Newt may have I
vociferously denounced by Kanjorski as a
Livingstone had already given 86 hours of
was there virtually the entire deposition and I
folks, but we nev
"preposterous and libelous" smear.
depositions to Senate and House investigators,
never saw anything that approached harass-
above to do this.
In a letter dated last Thursday, Burton al-
and he was due to testify before the Senate again
ment or physical contact. I sat between Mr.
When asked ab
leged that during a closed-door committee de-
the following day. Democrats grew annoyed
Kanjorski and the female staffer, and he would
a tool of the leader
position earlier in the week, Kanjorski had
by what they perceived to be Olson's badger-
have had to reach around me to touch her, and
terview, "I reject 1
been "threatening" Barbara Olson, the com-
ing of Livingstone over mundane points:
that never happened."
you that nobody in
mittee's chief investigative counsel, and "in-
According to Burton's letter, Kanjorski cre-
Goldberg added that he interviewed every
recting me about S
appropriately touching" Kristi Remington, a
ated an "intimidating environment" for Olson
Democratic staffer who attended the deposi-
don't take.it
GOP committee lawyer.
On different occasions you pounded your
tion
and three independent court stenogra
They can objec
"I find your allegation that I inappropriately
fists on the table, leaned over the table, loud-
phers who were present - and they all de-
because they' 1
touched a female staffer at the meeting both
ly demanded justification from Ms. Olson for
nied that anything happened.
monize me. The o
preposterous and libelous," Kanjorski shot
her questions, while referring to her as 'young
Burton admitted in an interview that he did
Kanjorski said
back in a letter on Friday. "It is a clear effort to
lady," wrote Burton. "Atone point you threat-
not actually see Kanjorski touch the staffer. "The
"missed a golden
smear me in order to silence the Minority's le-
ened to go outside to the press and attack her
young lady told me she was touched," Burton
rious oversight to
gitimate concerns about the unprofessional and
in the media. You even put your hand on an-
said. "I'm not saying she was touched in any
ment works, inste
partisan activities of the Majority and its staff."
other female staffer, Kristi Remington."
kind of sexual way. I didn't intend that in my
time and resource
The partisan war is only going to get nastier
Burton went so far as to compare the al-
letter. What said is that touching her in that way
But Clinger sai
next year because Burton last week hired David
leged incident to the recent case involving a
is inappropriate in this current climate. Sexual
mandates bill and
Bossie as an investigator on his personal staff,
North Carolina schoolboy. "I should not have
harassment has taken on new dimensions."
which he says wi
Burton confirmed to Roll Call. Bossie is a for-
to remind you that we live in a society where
Olson told Roll Call that she also did not
ment 20 percent a
mer aide to conservative activist Floyd Brown,
even a six-year-old boy can be accused of sex-
witness any touching by Kanjorski, but she
Fellow GOP me
the creator of the infamous Willie Horton ads
ual harassment for a kiss on the cheek of a
said that Remington "told me about it imme-
Clinger has done
who has spent the past four years tirelessly
young classmate," wrote Burton.
diately after the hearing." Remington would
"Doesn't anybe
dredging up every last Whitewater allegation.
Kanjorski said in an interview Friday that
not comment.
the White House
Bossie has most recently been serving as an
he has "no recollection of being within any
Kanjorski attributed the harassment flap to
they were pizzas?
aide to Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-NC) on the
close proximity of this woman," let alone
the fact that Olson is "very frustrated" that the
NH). a member e
Senate Special Whitewater Committee. In an
"shaking hands with anyone."
committee's investigations have not turned up
cares unless it's и
interview, Bossie said that he will be a com-
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif), who sat in
asmoking gun on the Clinton Administration.
A GOP leaders
mittee investigator next year should Burton
on the deposition, added in a letter to Burton,
"They wanted to destroy the President and
think you blame S
become chairman of House Government Re-
"None of us observed any such behavior. Fur-
the First Family," said Kanjorski. "But after
the muddy carpe
form, thanks to Clinger's retirement.
ther, I find it impossible to believe that you or
they got into the process, nothing has sup-
into the executive
The Kanjorski flap started last Tuesday,
others present would not have immediately
ported their suspicions They've made
This is not Clinge
when committee Members and aides gathered
raised objections to inappropriate behavior
mountains out of molehills."
ing. We have four
around a conference table to take an eight-and-
should it have occurred."
Kanjorski and his Democratic colleagues
sels investigating
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say they genuinely feel sad about the fact that
of
Clinger is leaving Congress with his commit-
in
four
tee in tatters. For almost 18 years, he's carved
out a career of caution and moderation," said
ve
Waxman. "I think it' regrettable that he's send-
over-
ing his Congressional career taking on the role
just
of a partisan hatchet man."
In particular, Democrats allege that leader-
chroed-
ship aides like Thomas have been pulling the
Shame
strings on Clinger's investigations for politi-
into
cal gain. Newsweek recently reported that
House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga) earli-
draft-
er this month visited ex-Sen. Bob Dole's pres-
mittee
idential campaign headquarters to plot strate-
naging
gy about how to capitalize on the story about
Clinton strategist Dick Morris's relationship
with prostitute Sherry Rowlands.
at
a
A supermarket tabloid had reported that
House
Rowlands kept a diary which alleged that First
Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was behind the
lowed
Photo by Christopher Martin
of
Photo by Laura Patterson
request for FBI files. "Suddenly. it was
GOP Rep. Dan Burton (right) alleged that Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski (left)
Macarena time at Dole HQ," said Newsweek.
during a closed-door session sexually harassed two female staffers. Kanjorski has
It "was agreed" that Clinger's committee
on
denounced the charge as "preposterous and libelous."
"would invite Morris to explain" the matter.
that
Sure enough, Clinger did take an affidavit
Rep.
a-half-hour deposition from Craig Living-
In a rare on-the-record declaration from a
from Morris about the tabloid report.
assing
stone, the former White House aide in the mid-
Congressional staffer, Democratic committee
A Clinger spokesman told Roll Call that
charge
dle of the FBI files flap.
investigator Don Goldberg told Roll Call: "I
"Newt may have talked about it with the Dole
as
a
Livingstone had already given 86 hours of
was there virtually the entire deposition and I
folks, but we never received an order from
depositions to Senate and House investigators,
never saw anything that approached harass-
above to do this.'
al-
and he was due totestify before the Senate again
ment or physical contact. I sat between Mr.
When asked about the allegations that he is
de-
the following day. Democrats grew annoyed
Kanjorski and the female staffer, and he would
a tool of the leadership, Clinger said in an in-
had
by what they perceived to be Olson's badger-
have had to reach around me to touch her, and
terview, "I reject that obviously. I can assure
com-
ing of Livingstone over mundane points.
that never happened."
you that nobody in the leadership has been di-
"in-
According to Burton's letter, Kanjorski cre-
Goldberg added that he interviewed every
recting me about what 1 do."
a
ated an "intimidating environment" for Olson.
Democratic staffer who attended the deposi-
"I don't take it personally," said Clinger.
"On different occasions you pounded your
tion and three independent court stenogra-
"They can't object to the [committee] reports
riately
fists on the table, leaned over the table, loud-
phers. who were present - and they all de-
because they're factual. Therefore they de-
both
ly demanded justification from Ms. Olson for
nied that anything happened.
monize me. The objective is to demonize me."
shot
her questions, while referring to her as 'young
Burton admitted in an interview that he did
Kanjorski said he regrets that Chinger
ffort
to
lady," wrote Burton. At one point you threat-
notactually see Kanjorski touch the staffer. "The
"missed a golden sportunity" to conduct se
le-
ened to go outside to the press and attack her
young lady told me she was touched," Burton
oversight to improve the way govern
and
in the media. You even put your hand on an-
said. "I'm not saying she was touched in any
ment works, instead of "spending somuch
staff."
other female staffer, Kristi Remington."
kind of sexual way. 1 didn't intend that in my
time and resources" on political attacks.
nastier
Burton went so far as to compare
letter. What I said is that touching her in that way
But Clinger said he authored the unfunded
David
leged incident to the recent case involving a
is inappropriate in this current climate. Sexual
mandates bill and the procurement reform bill,
staff,
North Carolina schoolboy. "I should not have
harassment has taken on new dimensions."
which he says will save the federal govern-
a
for-
to remind you that we live in a society where
Olson told Roll Call that she also did not
ment 20 percent across the board.
Brown,
even a six-year-old boy can be accused of sex-
witness any touching by Kanjorski, but she
Fellow GOP members of the committee say
ads
ual harassment for a kiss on the cheek of a
said that Remington "told me about it imme-
Clinger has done the country a great service.
elessly
young classmate," wrote Burton.
diately after the hearing." Remington would
"Doesn't anybody care about the fact that
gation.
Kanjorski said in an interview Friday that
not comment.
the White House was ordering FBI files as if
as
an
he has "no recollection of being within any
Kanjorski attributed the harassment flap to
they were pizzas?" asked Rep. Bill Zeliff (R-
on
the
close proximity of this woman," let alone
the fact that Olson is "very frustrated" that the
NH), a member of the committee. "Nobody
In
an
"shaking hands with anyone."
committee's investigations have not turned up
cares unless it's their file."
com-
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif), who sat in
a smoking gun on the Clinton Administration.
A GOP leadership source added, "I don't
Burton
on the deposition, added in a letter to Burton,
"They wanted to destroy the President and
think you blame somebody for trying to clean
nt Re-
"None of us observed any such behavior. Fur-
the First Family," said Kanjorski. "But after
the muddy carpet when someone's coming
ther, I find it impossible to believe that you or
they got into the process, nothing has sup-
into the executive branch with muddy shoes.
esday,
others present would not have immediately
ported their suspicions They've made
This is not Clinger's doing; it's Clinton's do-
thered
raised objections to inappropriate behavior
mountains out of molehills."
ing. We have four different independent coun-
t-and-
should it have occurred."
Kanjorski and his Democratic colleagues
sels investigating this Administration."
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