On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Hard to Miss Just who was on Bill Clinton's guest list during his three-week stay on Martha's Vineyard? Anybody with a newspaper knows the answer: Carly Simon, Vernon Jordan, Diane...
...The assumption is that Newt still intends to become president...
...He really had nothing to say to him...
...Hit the Road, Jack The big winners at the late August Indianapolis gathering of prospective GOP presidential candidates were Steve Forbes and George W. Bush...
...Yes, that Webb Hubbell...
...Her Willy a sex offender...
...Greenwood told staff on September 2 that Gingrich has given the planning team marching orders "to prepare long-term plans for the 2000 presidential election...
...Now working as a physician in Chicago, William has conquered the heart of a local stewardess who seems as enthralled by the Kennedy touch as the thousands of women before her...
...Anybody with a newspaper knows the answer: Carly Simon, Vernon Jordan, Diane Sawyer, the usual crowd...and Webb Hubbell...
...As first reported by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the former Justice Department official and convicted felon traveled to Massachusetts during the first week of the president's vacation to take part in the Clinton birthday celebration...
...Embassy sources tell the Prowler that, when Clinton made a visit to England and Ireland in November 1995, he had a clandestine meeting for several hours with the suspected terrorist—unbeknownst to then–Prime Minister John Major or even the majority of Clinton's staff...
...After she read it, they stepped away from the table, embraced, then left for home at around 1o:4o...
...Two sources at Labor, one of them a member of Herman's personal staff, say that Herman and at least thirty members of her staff wound up bunked down at the hotel for five days at a nightly cost of $169 per person...
...As one eyewitness—who worked for Forbes in 1996 ?described the scene: "Jack kept hying to make eye contact with Forbes, but Forbes wouldn't bite...
...This pro-partial birth abortion and self-described "rabid environmentalist" rose to prominence this term as a leader of the liberal-tomoderate "Tuesday Group," which included Gingrich's hand-picked Republican Conference vice-chair, Jennifer Dunn...
...He believes the group is to him what the Democratic Leadership Council was to Clinton," said a member of Gingrich's leadership staff...
...The Prowler has learned his investigators have confirmed the Hubbell visit...
...Jim Greenwood to head the House Republican leadership's "long term planning team...
...On top of this $25,000-plus room bill they ran up room service tabs in excess of $20,000 (and at least $1,500 in pay-per-view movie charges...
...When the George honcho recently slammed cousins Michael and Joseph in his magazine?poster boys for bad behavior," he called them—he apparently forgot the Kennedy clan's golden rule: Stick together and keep your mouth shut, for in the end the family mystique will always carry the day...
...I guess hanging around and watching the story on the news didn't appear terribly presidential," said a White House source...
...Though he was granted the visa waiver for this trip, Adams was not invited to see the president this time around...
...Late Saturday night, the White House released a statement that at the time of the Paris crash Bill and Hillary Clinton were at a private clam bake on Martha's Vineyard, and when informed at around 1o:3o of the accident, joined other guests in the host's TV room to watch the story unfold on CNN...
...And guess who happened to be there...
...But on Congress's first day back from summer recess, Gingrich announced that set asides will remain intact and that they are nonnegotiable in talks with the White House...
...Gerry Adams...
...Talking to friends, the young woman routinely dismisses the idea that her boy toy has ever been anything but the perfect gentleman...
...They were driving through the countryside and the president suddenly said he was hungry," claims the source...
...Tell that to Starr...
...Just before taking the 14 October 1997 • The American Spectator podium to attack the Republican budget deal, Forbes found himself in a holding room not far from Kemp...
...As it wound down, he approached the president hoping for a joint photo as a final memento...
...He said he established this understanding with the president and views it as a sign of good faith that Republicans will not challenge it...
...But nobody seemed to notice...
...One might expect the press to go into a frenzy—after all, it appears the Clintons are resuming their friendship with Hubbell at the same time he is stonewalling several campaign finance investigations—as well as Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Stan...
...Nobody knows this better than William Kennedy Smith, another feckless cousin acquitted of rape charges in 1991 after a long night on the tiles with his uncle, underwater motorist Sen...
...In the days before the visit, AP wrote in its wire-service headlines that Adams was to meet Clinton—you had to read the story to discover the Sinn Fein leader was only meeting with national security adviser Sandy Berger...
...Part-Time Work When Labor Secretary Alexis Herman pledged to stay at the Hyatt Regency Washington hotel—site of UPS and Teamster negotiations—until there was a settlement, she didn't mention who'd be staying with her, and at what cost to taxpayers...
...But the Prowler hears that the doctor makes lots of housecalls...
...A Case of the Willies John-John knows not what he does...
...Everyone thought it was strange, but he's the president, so they pulled over into a country pub...
...Ted Kennedy...
...He's such an angel...
...The two chewed the fat for a couple of hours, but of late their relationship has soured...
...It was reported that Clinton was still at the gathering when he heard of the princess's death shortly before midnight, and didn't leave until around 12:45...
...The American Spectator ?October 1997 15...
...But Sunday morning at around 9:30, the White House told a very different story...
...The big loser may have been Jack Kemp, who was the first of the ten or so would-be 2000 runners to commit to the event, but found himself shunted off to the poorly attended Sunday afternoon closing session...
...Because of what the State Department calls Adams's "previous involvement in terrorist activities"—he is a reputed former commander of the IRA, and has never been able to account for the years of his alleged involvement—the Sinn Fein leader is theoretically ineligible for a visa to come to the U.S...
...Steve isn't going to publicly attack him, but he thinks Kemp's foray in helping the White House negotiate the tax-cut legislation was a betrayal of the highest order...
...Conservatives are further dismayed by the position Newt has taken on the upcoming 1997 federal highway and transportation bill...
...Afterward he seemed perplexed at his tepid reception...
...But then Clinton never met a fundraiser he didn't like...
...But was it any surprise, given what happened Friday night backstage...
...But Adams was granted a visa waiver—not for the first time during the Clinton administration—that allowed him not only to visit but to raise money...
...In this version, presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey handed the president a note about the crash at around 10:30, the president read it, solemnly stood up and handed the note to the first lady...
...Ickes Fails to Click Former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes attended the July National Governors Association meeting in Las Vegas, perhaps looking for a job now that he has concluded his last bit of work for an ungrateful Clinton: organizing this summer's splashy G-8 summit in Denver...
...Clinton declined and walked away...
...Another Vacation Whopper Shades of White House reactions in the aftermath of the Ron Brown and TWA 800 crashes, staffers called the death of Princess Diana "an opportunity that couldn't be passed up," which explains the dramatic way they reinvented the official account of President Clinton's reaction to the news...
...Conservative Republicans have been pushing—and thought they had the support of their leadership—to eliminate all racially targeted government contracts in upcoming funding bills...
...When a block of thirty-two rooms was initially unavailable, Labor declared the need for rooms to be of "national importance" and asked the Regency to move guests to another hotel to make room...
...A Fein President As this issue goes to press, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is in the middle of a fundraising trip to the United States, just before his group gets a seat at the table for all-party talks on Ireland's future beginning September 15...
...This kind of thing is viewed as pretty harmless, and no one calls them on it anyway...
...They're furious—and determined to learn more about what went on when Webb and Bill got together...
...Both wowed the heavily attended Friday and Saturday sessions, respectively...
...The dreamy look in her eyes indicates she thinks she's Willy's one and only...
...President Newt Much to conservative dismay, Newt Gingrich has appointed Pennsylvania Rep...
...He didn't help himself delivering the stump speech he's been using for the better part of three years...
...And the o White House denied the Fe' 3 whole thing, telling Tyrrell it was "beyond the pale of poso sibility" that Hubbell would be invited...
...But that didn't make any difference to the hacks at the Associated Press...
...There's no way he could have done it," she sniffs...
...Six years ago, under George Bush's "leadership," he negotiated an amendment to the 1991-92 highway bill that set aside 10 percent of the $14o billion in state contracts to minority contractors...
...Clinton was said to be furious when the IRA ended its cease-fire in 1996 just days after the president had given Adams a very public show of support...
Vol. 30 • October 1997 • No. 10
