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Mar 22 - 28, 1998 edition
No journalist questioned how Tripp's confidential file ended up in The New Yorker. Instead, all the papers dutifully reported on her arrest and her lack of candor in disclosing it. The White House secret police have struck again. Desperate to discredit Linda Tripp, President Clinton's most damning accuser, the president's men are most likely the ones who delved into confidential Pentagon files to dig up and dish out dirt on Tripp. [more]
WHEN HAVE YOU heard a Cabinet member come on nationwide television to announce that an ordinary employee failed to fill out her job application properly? That was the ominous announcement of Secretary of Defense William Cohen about Linda Tripp, who just happens to be a witness against the president in the grand jury investigation of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. [more]
Until Kathleen Willey came along, President Clinton’s defenders defended the indefensible by creating a new right: The president has the right to do what he wants in his private life, which is none of the public’s business. [more]
I've just finished reading the 600 pages of material released last Friday by Paula Jones's lawyers, and I've just finished watching Kathleen Willey on "60 Minutes," and I've just finished reading Bill Clinton's statement that he didn't bother to watch Ms. Willey on TV but that he knows what she says isn't true anyway. And I still believe the president. Truly, madly, deeply, I believe. Also verily. [more]
The morning the Gennifer Flowers story broke in 1992, I was in New Hampshire, working the phones from my hotel room, when the operator buzzed -- to say that George Stephanopoulos had returned an earlier call, I thought. It was a rotten morning outside, a storm of snow and freezing rain settling in over the state. [more]
London Telegraph DR Benjamin Spock, whose book on child care became the bible of parents around the world in the post-war baby boom, has died almost penniless at the age of 94.
London Telegraph Jean Kennedy Smith, the American Ambassador to the Irish Republic who was accused by a colleague of being an "IRA apologist", is to return to Washington this summer after five years in Dublin.
London Telegraph LYNDON Johnson used the FBI to bug his vice-president, Hubert Humphrey, whom he feared would betray him over the Vietnam War, a new biography says.
San Jose Mercury BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Four anti-government Freemen arrested after an 81-day standoff with the FBI were ejected from a courtroom today as they cursed the judge and a prosecutor on the first day of their criminal trial.
New York Times The American Medical Association spent $8.5 million on lobbying in the first six months of 1997. AT&T spent $4.1 million -- slightly more than the Christian Coalition. In the grand scheme of politics, these facts may not be so surprising, but before today, it would have taken a trip to Washington and hours of research to have learned them.
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York Times Clinton going down that old Nixon road Clinton on Friday took the extraordinary step of formally invoking both executive privilege and attorney-client privilege to block grand jury testimony of senior White House aides in the Monica Lewinsky inquiry, lawyers involved in the case said. Boston Globe WASHINGTON - Senator John Ashcroft deplores gambling. He calls it ''a cancer.'' But Ashcroft - stern, devout, conservative - is about to make a high-stakes gamble of his own: He's going to run for president. Of the United States -- on a morality platform. Washington Times For the first time, a top Republican lawmaker took to the House floor Thursday to demand President Clinton more fully address the growing White House sex scandal. The remarks by House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas signaled a sharp departure from the reluctance of Republican leaders to comment on the scandal. Washington Times Prominent women who have long formed the core of President Clinton's political support broke their silence yesterday to say that Kathleen Willey's accusations that he kissed and groped her are serious and troubling.
Washington Times Paula Jones' attorneys said Monday they are holding more damaging evidence against President Clinton than what they filed last Friday. That brief was meant only to keep the case alive for trial. Washington Times Massive obstruction of justice took place in 1988 as federal banking regulators closed in on the troubled Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, believe federal investigators. Systematic destruction or hiding of documents describing Hillary Rodham Clinton's ties to the Castle Grande real estate project far exceeds what previously was known, according to persons familiar with the plan.
Washington Times Lawmakers said Wednesday they plan to halt further taxpayer funding for the record number of White House lawyers helping President Clinton fight the personal scandals gripping his administration.
London Telegraph OPINION polls flashed danger signals to the White House Tuesday after Sunday's televised interview by a woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton in 1993. Three in five Americans believe that the President has engaged in a pattern of sexual misconduct and 63 per cent say he should resign if he lied under oath, according to an ABC television poll. New York Times ATLANTA -- One by one, they have fallen. During the last three decades, each of the once solidly Democratic states of the old Confederacy have elected Republican governors; each, that is, except Georgia. Now the Republicans have a chance -- a better than even chance, polls and political analysts say -- to complete the transformation. United Press
International In a complete reversal of public posture, the Clinton administration now admits it plans to maintain thousands of troops on an open-ended peacekeeping mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina with no exit strategy. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Defense Secretary William Cohen, conceded publicly that the Bosnia mission is completely open-ended and asked Congress Wednesday for an additional $2.5 billion to fund the troop deployment. ABC New Revenge is sweet: Inventer James Russell's OROM data storage technology -- the market for which promises to be huge -- may someday eliminate the need for CD-ROM storage, which he also invented but didn't make any money from. Washington Post Ever since a group of schoolchildren discovered grossly deformed frogs in a pond near Henderson, Minn., in the summer of 1995, scientists around the country have been struggling to understand what may be causing the abnormalities, which have subsequently been discovered in a number of other states. Washington Post The patch of manzanita shrubs was just a nuisance to the owners of forest land near Ashland, Ore. They enlisted the help of local ecologists to clear the shrubs that grow three to six feet high throughout dry regions in the Pacific Northwest and can help fuel forest fires. Washington Post LOS ANGELES, March 16—Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung, who has agreed to help prosecutors probing campaign finance abuses, pleaded guilty Monday to charges of funneling $20,000 in illegal contributions on behalf of the Clinton-Gore reelection bid. New York Post WASHINGTON - A new Sexgate furor exploded last week as the Pentagon admitted it provided the confidential personnel data on Linda Tripp that led to a magazine report challenging her truthfulness.
Washington Post As far back as last summer, President Clinton's legal team was concerned enough about Kathleen E. Willey's allegation of an unwelcome sexual advance that it threatened to abandon settlement talks with Paula Jones if her lawyers kept trying to interview Willey, a former Jones attorney said Wednesday. Washington Post The top aide to former agriculture secretary Mike Espy was sentenced Wednesday to a 27-month prison term for lying about $22,000 he received from two Mississippi individuals who obtained large government farming subsidies Washington Post Senate Democrats Thursday blocked action on a mostly Republican-backed initiative to provide tax breaks for public and private school costs in an effort to force votes on Democratic alternatives, including funds to repair schools and hire teachers. Washington Post A three-judge federal court panel appointed a veteran Washington trial lawyer, Carol Elder Bruce, as independent counsel yesterday to determine whether Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt lied to Congress about his department's 1995 rejection of a proposed Indian gambling casino in Hudson, Wis. New York Times WASHINGTON -- Kathleen Willey's severe financial problems began closing in on her last summer. Since her husband committed suicide in 1993, Ms. Willey has inherited many of his debts, including a $274,500 judgment that she was ordered to pay last June, court records show. |
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