On the Prowl
"On the Prowl" Booked at Random Bill Clinton may have waived royalties from his compilation of 1996 stump speeches, Between Hope and History, but that doesn't mean there won't be a bigger...
...Hillary's people showed up and basically forced the hand of Dodd and others involved in the scheduling," said a source familiar with the negotiations...
...But on at least one occasion, Stephanopoulos used his pass to walk the floor and badmouth Oklahoma Rep...
...Clinton's next move was to try to have the DNC pay for a 747 charter to carry Hollywood friends to the New York festivities...
...The new governor got an earful about management problems such as personal and sexual harassment, but he also got more than a glimmer of insight into ADFA's political purpose...
...Before the U.S...
...American Pie Indiana Gov...
...O N T H E P R O W L Booked at Random Bill Clinton may have waived royalties from his compilation of 1996 stump speeches, Between Hope and History, but that doesn't mean there won't be a bigger payday down the road...
...Watts before he had even delivered his speech...
...At one point, after the musical performances at Radio City Music Hall, Clinton asked Secret Service agents about possibly holding over in Manhattan for the night-alone-because of several post-party parties and fundraisers being held around town, especially the Planet Hollywood gathering for younger Democrats...
...officials leave their post, the Americans "sell" the car to the local who put up the cash: That way the Egyptian avoids his country's crippling VAT, and the American leaves town with a handsome profit...
...The president would not receive any money a until after he left office...
...Tensions eased when Mrs...
...All told, it might have cost the DNC between $750,000 to $1 million...
...According to the agreement, if Clinton wins the White House, Random House will have the option on two books...
...How can we throw a party and not have stars...
...Mrs...
...In an August coup little noticed outside the state, he fired the president of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and cleaned out three of its senior officers...
...According to a Cairo source, representatives of the U.S...
...Still, it could have been a lot less...
...One day he was going into a meeting with campaign advisers and the three of them were standing by the door in a row with their arms folded at their chests, and just stared at him as he walked past...
...the first lady fumed...
...He also told friends that he kept duplicates of his White House materials in a "secret" office he leased last May in a downtown Washington building: Morris believed people had been "rifling" through his White House files after hours...
...Should Clinton lose in 1 November, the deal calls for only one book...
...Perhaps that's why Carlson writes things like: "The White House failed to take into account the Travel Office had a powerful protector in the press, which has long been pampered by the plush level of accommodations...
...Cooler heads prevailed when it became clear that very few people were accepting the invites...
...According to spokesman Rex Nelson, Huckabee made ADFA a top concern early on...
...From the moment the Clintons arrived in New York to the late evening flight back to Washington, Clinton was never allowed to be separated from his wife and daughter by Secret Service agents...
...Bayh, Bayh, Ms...
...Its files will likely generate enough material to put Arkansas in the front rank of the "pay to play" scandals still rocking the municipal bond market...
...He really seemed to feel the Watts speech was something worth missing, which of course led us to believe that it wasn't something to be missed...
...They spent the entire meeting just giving him the evil eye...
...Margaret Sends Her Apologies Harry Thomason and wife Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the Hollywood power duo who are two of the Clintons' closest pals, have another close Washington buddy: Time magazine Clintonista Margaret Carlson...
...Then she blamed people like Barbra Streisand and Lou Wasserman for badmouthing them to gossip columnists...
...For God sake, if Whoopi Goldberg hosts enough of these things for us, people will think we're adopting her...
...It got ugly for a time in the late afternoon when Bayh's people threatened to go public with the scheduling mess...
...They think his biography can net them `Colin Powell money,' and they want a broader bidding process," a White House source said...
...Sources at Random House say that negotiations for the slight tome involved a "handshake deal" between Random House and Clinton friend and attorney Eli Segal for what could work out to be a $3 million book contract for one and possibly two additional books written under Clinton's name...
...S When Segal approached o Random House last November with the initial book pro posal, the publisher sought a larger agreement that would have included Clinton's authorized presidential biography, but Segal declined to enter into such negotiations on behalf of his client...
...The Prowler has been told that more than loo people were named in the recent investigation, but that State squashed the probe for fear that the story would be too politically damaging...
...Publicly, the Democratic National Committee, which orchestrated the party along with the White House, claimed the event raised $10 million-though expenses for the shindig, which included a cocktail party and reception, a dinner, and the show at Radio City, will probably knock the take down to $7.5 million...
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...He kept telling me that the Watts speech was going to be another snoozer from a convention rookie," said one reporter...
...Evan Bayh's handlers threw a fit the day of his Democratic Convention keynote address after White House staff pushed his appearance back to give Hillary Clinton a better time slot...
...Birthday Boy Clinton In a reprise of her and Betsey Wright's role in Arkansas, Hillary Clinton put the presidential Secret Service detail on notice that her husband "was to be kept on an extremely tight leash" during his 5oth birthday bash at several Manhattan sites on August 18...
...The second book was casually ly discussed as an examination of Clinton's White House years...
...So why are you letting her dic 14 October r 9 9 6 . The American Spectator tate terms...
...Not that he'd been spending too many hours there of late...
...He says they give him the creeps," said one campaign staffer, referring to George Stephanopoulos, Harold Ickes, and Leon Panetta...
...At least two print reporters from East Coast newspapers say that the diminutive Clinton aide promised them an "exclusive," off the floor interview with him and Carvillebut during the Watts speech...
...Car Wash Sources tell the Prowler that somebody high up in the State Department-possibly even Warren Christopher himself-put the kibosh on an internal investigation that revealed extreme financial wrongdoing by State officials and military personnel stationed in Egypt...
...Bayh's people kept saying, `You keep saying you want a moderate keynote, but you keep screwing the guy who's supposed to give it and who you say can pull you out of the hole that woman put you in...
...Clinton wasn't finished...
...Mike Huckabee, the Republican who took over for convicted felon Jim Guy Tucker in July, is getting serious about disman tling the politicized financial apparatus created by Bill Clinton...
...Floor Pests Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour is still trying to find out why senior presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos and Clinton political hack James Carville were given full-access press passes from ABC News to walk onto the floor-and even the podium-of the Republican convention in San Diego...
...Morris Under Siege Ten days or so before his August 29 resignation, Clinton campaign adviser Dick Morris ordered new locks for his White House office...
...He was targeting the big papers, too, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer...
...She usually talks to my wife, Linda is a very close friend of hers...
...Purging ADFA Arkansas Gov...
...ABC News reportedly told Barbour the passes were issued to allow the duo access to press skyboxes for interviews as part of a "Democratic Truth Squad...
...The first thing the first lady did was blame Harry Thomason for poisoning the Hollywood well for her and her husband because of Travelgate and the haircut thing," says the source...
...Clinton personally called Bayh to apologizebut she still went first...
...This was not a consultative decision...
...Clinton, with help from Cambridge, Massachusetts consultants, the agency was essentially a spigot to tap the financial reserves of state pension funds and generate political giving from Wall Street bond firms...
...This is sleaze of a national scope, the sort of revelation that Tucker may have tried to prevent by his last-hour effort to hang on as governor...
...The first would be a "candid" look at the first two years of Clinton's second term, with the working title "After Victory...
...government have routinely-and illegally-been purchasing expensive luxury cars for official use either with money provided by Egyptian citizens or in their names...
...In Harry's deposition for the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, he said, "Margaret is a friend and so we talk quite often...
...But Hillary nixed those plans and the family flew home together...
...It may take the state equivalent of Kenneth Starr to handle the house-cleaning...
...In June and July Hillary Clinton took a hands-on approach to party planning, a White House source says, and reportedly threw a fit in her White House office in late June when a tentative guest list proved particularly thin on celebrities -Robin Williams had declined, as had Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, and other Democratic luminaries...
...Huckabee took the purge seriously enough to send senior aides to escort ADFA head Vincent Tilford from the building...
...As invented by Gov...
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