On the Prowl
"On the Prowl" Kiss 'n' Tell Cousins Nobody was more surprised than Clinton cousin Catherine Cornelius by a recent telephone call from the White House Counsel's Office. Someone was checking on a...
...But the Kennedy notes show that the lawyers were discussing the Clinton campaign checks on November 5 along the lines suggested in both the 0196 referral and its inter-agency review...
...O'Neill was not the first choice of fiscal conservatives to head CBO—many wanted Bruce Bartlett, currently with the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis...
...This is more detail than any newspaper had on this matter at the time...
...and Mrs...
...One wonders, though, who was advising Jeffords in his delay tactics...
...Rubin, It's You Fed up by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's arrogance toward the Hill during the budget impasse, House Republicans from the leadership on down are making plans to introduce an impeachment petition to remove him from the cabinet...
...Coats Is Clear Look for Senate Republicans to push hard to have conservative Hoosier Dan Coats leap frog over ranking Vermont's Jim Jeffords for the chairmanship of the Labor and Human Resources Committee...
...Doesn't Sheila Burke work for Bob Dole...
...And they asked if each check might have covered two $1,500 donations, just as the RTC reviewer had suggested...
...Making his departure from friends, the normally retiring former White House counsel declared spiritedly, "Well, we're gonna go shoot up a few places...
...Moves Left...
...In December he was forced to refinance the mortgage on his house...
...When Clinton heard Watkins was repaying his kindness by spreading the rumor, though, he exploded...
...This, after Jeffords—in line to replace the retiring Nancy Kassebaum —privately took steps to throw a wrench into the conference committee report on welfare-reform legislation by threatening to withhold his support from the final bill if schoollunch-program funds were block-granted to states...
...The White House is saying that the seven lawyers in that November 5,1993 meeting were just rehashing what they read in the papers, and that the attorneys didn't know anything more than what the Washington Post had told them about the RTC criminal referrals on Madison Guaranty that fingered the Clintons...
...Cross-Dressers In late November Al Gore and wife Tipper confirmed that they ran up an $8,000 tab to have Walt Disney makeup artists do them up as "Beauty and the Beast" for the Gores' annual Halloween spectacle...
...This produced a review of Criminal Referral 0196 and its charge: that loans from Madison Guaranty were misused to provide four S3,000 checks to Bill Clinton at the April 4,1985 fundraiser at the S&L's headquarters...
...Although Dale was acquitted of all charges, the ordeal left him heavily in debt...
...No inside leaks from ongoing investigations...
...Lloyd Cutler emerging from the theater...
...Mount Hillary On her recent Asian tour, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton told New Zealand television that she had been named for famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary...
...This supposedly confidential memo was written on October 7,1993, and wasn't made public for another 22 months...
...No impropriety...
...In other words, Kennedy's notes indicate unmistakably that Clinton's troubleshooters must have had access both to the criminal referralsand the memo that reviewed them...
...Dynamic Scare All eyes on Capitol Hill have been on Republican-appointed Congressional Budget Office Director June O'Neill since her hand-picked staff released a seven-year economic forecast that initially placed the Clinton administration's last-ditch budget proposal in a positive light...
...Cornelius furiously denied the charge, and then set about determining the source of the rumor...
...So there was a leak in the RTC bureaucracy, after all—but it went to the White House, not the press...
...The Prowler was stopped in his tracks when, after a recent Saturday matinee showing of the movie at the Embassy theater, just above Dupont Circle, he spotted Mr...
...During the initial makeup phase, advisers persuaded the Veep that from a public-relations standpoint, a cross-dressing Second Couple might not play well in Middle America with an election year coming up...
...And after I got him that f---ing golf job...
...After the budget wrangle is over, it's expected that Gingrich will placate conservatives and float Bartlett's name for a new position at CBOLegislative Director...
...But there is a road map to those criminal referrals, and it sneaked into the public domain last summer in a mass of documents released by the House Banking Com12 February 1996 • The American Spectator mittee...
...Announced his mayoral office would be completely remodeled, including the addition of "graffiti"— apparently an attempt to show that the high-rolling Brown is "down" with his less-wellheeled constituents...
...She'd worked wonders for him on the election trail, making him appear more mature by keeping his eye from wandering...
...Hit Man In Martin Scorsese's new mafia film, Casino, co-star Joe Pesci plays a character who betrays his former superior and orders a contract on him...
...Brown Town When former California state assembly speaker Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco on December 19, the newspaper headlines read: "While Country Moves Right, S.F...
...Sure enough, in a matter of days he: •Requested that former President Jimmy Carter swear him in, and compiled a guest list that included Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, Oliver Stone, Mikhail Gorbachev (an early Brown endorser), Barbara Boxer, Angela Davis, and longtime San Francisco favorite Fidel Castro...
...Brown has already described the mayor's salary of $175,000 as much too meager for a man of his tastes to live on...
...Here's one trail to follow...
...Now she is cutting into his social life...
...The attorneys expressed concern about donations siphoned off from a loan to Little Rock businessman Charles Peacock that was cited in the referral...
...Clinton apparently made many calls to her, as well as to Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, that other instigator of the Travel-gate debacle...
...But Speaker Gingrich persuaded hardliners such as Majority Leader Dick Armey and budget chief John Kasich that O'Neill—then with the Urban Institute—would incorporate supply-side favorites such as dynamic scoring in CBO analysis, while at the same time providing a moderate front to appease Democrats and the press corps...
...In an attempt to curb the zeal of the Kansas City RTC investigators, higher-ups required their referrals to be reviewed by a more pliable branch of the agency...
...More horrifying than their costumes was Al's original concept: He would go as Beauty, and Tipper would dress up as the Beast...
...Brown will control the city's $2.8 billion budget, have appointment power over all city department chiefs, and be allowed to create new departments and responsibilities without the approval of the Board of Supervisors...
...Her parents apparently had unusual foresight...
...No smoking gun...
...He was last seen headed east on Florida Avenue...
...Clinton screamed...
...They've suddenly recalled how angry they are over the still unanswered questions regarding Rubin's personal financial stake in the Mexican bailout he promoted...
...He didn't conquer Mount Everest, and achieve worldwide fame, until 1953...
...Sources close to his transition staff say Brown's attorneys are preparing documents to create a mayoral discretionary fund made up of "donations" from "friends of the mayor's office," which would be used by Brown for "expenses"—such as clothing, car repairs, meals, and travel...
...The RTC official who reviewed the referral asked if the $3,000 checks, which exceeded the legal limit, might not actually have covered two contributions, as for a man and wife, so that each would have given the legal sum of $1,5oo...
...As it happens, Watkins recently quit his job at the Callaway golf-equipment company of Carlsbad, California, a position he'd landed with the assistance of the Prez...
...In a private Oval Office tete-a-tete, Cornelius told Bill about the phone call—and then revealed that she'd discovered that the person circulating the phony gossip was none other than deposed Clinton staffer David Watkins, who lost his gig after a notorious two-helicopter golf outing in May 1994...
...That f---ing Watkins...
...It hasn't exactly worked out that way...
...Meanwhile, the new San Francisco charter approved by voters last fall gives hizzonah unprecedented power...
...Notes From Underground The Senate Whitewater Committee says it will use the William Kennedy notes as a "road map" for future investigations...
...In 1947, the year of her birth, Sir Edmund was an obscure beekeeper...
...Someone was checking on a rumor circulating around administration hallways that Cornelius was having an affair with the president...
...Even though they're not o kissin' cousins, sources close to the Oval Office say that Cornelius was on the horn ,6,< with Bill throughout the recent trial of railroaded former Travel Office director Billy Dale...
...Embattled Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary is second on the Republican hit list, and other administration figures are likely to be targeted as well, now that Republicans have decided to play hardball with the president...
...ON THE PROWL Kiss 'n' Tell Cousins Nobody was more surprised than Clinton cousin Catherine Cornelius by a recent telephone call from the White House Counsel's Office...
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...More to come...
...Dumped his campaign sweetheart, a 4o-ish Bay Area attorney...
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