On the Prowl
"On the Prowl" Whole Lott 0' Shakin' Gain' On Two men are in a Capitol Hill dogfight for the post of Senate Majority Leader if Bob Dole steps down after New Hampshire and Iowa. Mississippi's Trent...
...Though Clinton is famous for last-minute changes of mind, associates expect Blanchard to be named to the campaign shortly...
...Rudy's Cop Out New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, whose political star has been rising faster than Manhattan's crime rate has been dropping, has told friends he's moving to Washington...
...This spot allows press photographers to shoot speakers with the building's name overhead...
...Felix the Fat Cat Federal Reserve Board member Alan Blinder announced in early January his intention to resign from the board...
...This, because of a New Jersey bond deal from March 1992...
...The Kit-Kat Club One of the biggest Washington cat fights in years is taking place between first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Washington native Maureen Dowd, the New York Times columnist whose lively work has left Frank Rich sounding like a poor woman's version of Anna Quindlen...
...Stonewalling The Clintons' former eyes and ears at Justice, Webster Hubbell, is talking...
...Meanwhile, staffers on the Republican House Oversight Committee are quietly looking into bulk sales of It Takes a Village by several nonprofit children's organizations with close ties to the Clintons...
...For Bratton, the last straw came in January when the mayor's office announced a 2,000-man cut in police ranks—the sort of thanks you get when the crime rate falls...
...Meanwhile, the novel's command of political minutiae has caused some to credit former Clinton consultant Paul Begala...
...Precisely what they are discussing isn't clear, but they are communicating via the United States Postal Service...
...Although Feinman's contract bars her from discussing any role she had in the book's creation, according to a source close to the book's production, Feinman provided Hillary with a researched draft that sat around for a month unread in that now infamous third-floor office...
...Vandivier has been hard at work on a mysterious book for the past year, a project that involved the hiring of a research assistant and the mailing of a manuscript...
...Although largely unknown on the national stage, Nickles lent Dole's campaign a number of staffers for election-year window dressing...
...The Prowler graciously forwarded the letter to la Hockersmith after noting its return address and thickness...
...The real authors are probably a husband and wife team, David Dreyer and Elizabeth Vandivier...
...While Rohatyn's appointment to the board would be the capstone of a long career as a political bankroller, executives at his investment bank, Lazard Freres & Co., are leery of a confirmation hearing for their boss...
...Village People The dust jacket says It Takes a Village was written by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and even the inside would make you think that was the case...
...ambassador to Canada, appears to be preparing to go to Washington with the eye on a top campaign job, perhaps even chairman...
...Hockersmith is the interior decorator brought in to transform the White House's Bush-era Ralph Lauren snootiness to its present glitter—call it New Orleans Bordello circa 1870 sans oil lights...
...ON THE PROWL Whole Lott 0' Shakin' Gain' On Two men are in a Capitol Hill dogfight for the post of Senate Majority Leader if Bob Dole steps down after New Hampshire and Iowa...
...Barbara Feinman, the woman who actually did write it, isn't even given the usual ghostwriter's reward: a heartfelt thanks on the acknowledgments page...
...Since the book is well written and has verisimilitude, journalists such as the New Yorker's Michael Kelly, the New Republic's Matthew Cooper (who dates former Clinton media viper Mandy Grunwald), and this magazine's own David Brock have been top suspects...
...Carte Blanchard The search to find someone willing and able to head up President Clinton's re-election campaign may be over...
...John Dean, Oliver North, and Bernard Nussbaum are but a few who have been immortalized in such photos...
...Lott's stock has been dropping in the Senate since, in pre-Christmas press briefings, he exaggerated his role in the budget talks led by John Kasich and Pete Domenici...
...Clinton, 16 March 1996 The American Spectator are telling friends they have yet to be paid for their two years of service...
...Customers at a downtown D.C...
...Prowler bets that if anybody's going to get paid now, it'll be the lawyers...
...Others who have worked on the first lady's wardrobe—particularly the maker of those hip-hiding shawls—also say they've been stiffed...
...That archaic institution missent a letter from the famous inmate not to Kaki Hockersmith of Stonewall Road, Little Rock, Arkansas, but to one of the Prowler's hideouts on Stonewall Road...
...Together, the couple had the access (he was close personally with the Clinton campaign inner circle), the motive (they are very disgruntled liberals), and the talent (both are accomplished writers) to produce this tell-all tale...
...barber shop overheard him issuing this pronouncement after watching a CNN report on Carolyn Huber's damning "book room" testimony: the first lady is in "deep s--t," he observed...
...Now living as an all-expensespaid guest of Uncle Sam at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland, Hubbell has been communicating with Hillary's pal Kaki Hockersmith back in Little Rock...
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...Two former hairstylists, brought to the White House weekly to do the do of Mrs...
...Maureen has gained her revenge and then some...
...George raised eyebrows only after hours...
...The hack Walter Shapiro, who wrote about the book for Time, has gone on television hoping viewers might think him the author...
...He is currently a senior aide to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin...
...Rumors abound regarding the authorship of Primary Colors, the roman a clef about the randy 1992 Clinton campaign...
...Bratton and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had a falling out a year ago, after Giuliani fired the commissioner's press office claiming the commish was getting better press than he was...
...Mississippi's Trent Lott, Dole's current majority whip, would seem to have the inside track for the job—but Dole's choice is actually Oklahoma's Don Nickles...
...Who Wrote the Book of Love...
...According to those close to the couple, even the dedication rings true: "For my spouse, living proof that flamboyance and discretion are not mutually exclusive...
...True, he is a former employee with his own Southern roots and affinity for country music, but wouldn't it be a bit much to expect that any partner of James Carville could sit still long enough to even pen a press release...
...federal courthouse...
...One recent column included a passage describing Hillary as "earth mother meets Mommy Dearest...
...According to sources familiar with the deal, structured for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the investment bank split the fee for legal services between the Newark, New Jersey-based law firm that actually worked on the deal, and the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock...
...The microphones into which Clinton would be making her comments outside, after her testimony, had been placed at the traditional position in front of the D.C...
...According to one of Dowd's fellow Washington Hibernians, in the spring of 1993 Hillary was overheard calling Maureen a "short Irish bitch...
...Former Michigan Gov...
...The check for more than $300,000 in legal work had already been sent to the Newark firm when it received a call from Lazard asking it to split the fee with Rose...
...Hair Cutlery Former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler remains loose-lipped...
...Clinton campaign officials feared this kind of photo of the first lady would make for great campaign-ad fodder—and so sent three secretaries to the courthouse to move the microphones across the courtyard, in front of a small lawn with the Canadian embassy in the background...
...Presumably, though, Feinman got her money—which is more than can be said for others who have toiled for the first lady...
...Immediately, the White House leaked the name of President Clinton's choice to fill the vacancy: longtime Democratic fundraiser Felix Rohatyn...
...Jim Blanchard, who was passed over for a cabinet post before becoming U.S...
...His puffery rankled colleagues, and staffers in the offices of both Lott and Nickles admit that head counts show Nickles with an edge of one vote —the margin with which Lott won the whip's post in the first place...
...Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund is said to have placed orders for more than 5,000 copies of Feinman's—er, Hillary's—book...
...Cameramen who tried to shoot the first lady from an angle that would still have gotten the building's name in the shot were threatened with arrest by Hillary's Secret Service detail...
...Some say he's been offered the director's post of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau...
...During the first year of the Clinton administration, Dreyer worked closely with George Stephanopoulos at the White House, where he raised eyebrows with his prominent earring...
...What was in it...
...More curious is that the decision to cut Rose in on the action seemed to be made at the last minute...
...On Location An urgent White House email message was sent out to the support staff in Hillary Rodham Clinton's office at four in the afternoon the day the first lady went before the Washington Whitewater grand jury...
...A senior official in the diplomatic corps is headed to Canada to assume the number two position at the embassy in anticipation of the ambassador's departure...
Vol. 29 • March 1996 • No. 3
