On the Prowl
Drama Queen Few things were more nauseating during the weeks-long festival of Diana than the behavior of her emotional pal Captain Fantastic, also known as Elton John. The famously flippy...
...Lott was annoyed and embarrassed by the whole affair and swore he'd never work with Horowitz again...
...Since he's No...
...Frey is said to have told friends that in her years in Washington and New York she "serviced" many famous people, and in recent years had gained a regular client who served in a top Clinton post and traveled to New York regularly or paid Frey's way to Washington...
...Lott went so far as to trumpet the coming legislation on the Senate floor...
...But when Horowitz got a look at the bill, he was furious: as worded, it would have treated Israel and its restrictions on religious minorities as seriously as it would have the crimes of a barbaric regime like Sudan, which allows Christians to be sold into slavery...
...Jim Moran would like nothing better, since he already has his eye on Fazio's caucus post and privately despises Bonior...
...Carmen Gala After attending the gala opening night performance of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Carmen—at which the Clintons showed up with more than forty people, only five of whom had tickets—President Clinton spent about 45 minutes holed up in a Waldorf-Astoria suite talking politics with old friend Dick Morris...
...It wasn't like we could go anywhere else...
...Morris and his on-again, off-again wife had also attended the opera, but weren't among the Clinton freeloaders who did their viewing standing at the rear of several private boxes...
...Bill Thomas...
...She's breaking the law and the Justice Department has been asked to enforce the subpoena—forcibly take her to court if need be...
...While both Daleys have proved themselves astute fundraisers, neither comes close to McAuliffe's flair and tenacity in raising big bucks for those he backs...
...No one asked him about it and none of us really cared, but there he sat just talking away...
...It's personal now...
...When Blair raised this possibility with Oasis, its frontman Liam Gallagher said the group would cancel if the two world leaders tried to join the band on stage...
...Romer told Mr...
...Though he hasn't been formally interviewed for the chief of staff position soon to be vacated by forgetful Erskine Bowles, Fazio has let it be known he'd take the job if offered...
...Shouldn't be a problem, seeing that its members have become frequent visitors to No...
...Virginia Rep...
...Asked for permission to show a snippet of his Abbey performance in the film, John refused—because, as he said, he "wouldn't get any money out of it...
...But some House Democrats are urging him to challenge David Bonior for minority whip...
...Some days later, he then dismissively told the English people that it was time to cut out the mourning: Diana, he was sure, 9 would have wanted it that way...
...So it shouldn't come as a surprise that Lott has essentially killed Horowitz's 1997 version of a religious freedom act put forth by Sen...
...Chelsea, by the way, won't be without a protective shoulder should need for one arise...
...Fazio Fades Away Frustrated by his diminished role in the House, California Congressman Vic Fazio, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, wants a White House job...
...If anything is going to happen on Christian persecution, it's going to happen on Lott's terms and without Horowitz's assistance...
...Perry, who left the Pentagon earlier this year, now teaches part-time at Stanford...
...Get Off Of My Cloud British Prime Minister Tony Blair, already busily planning the G-8 summit that will meet in Manchester, England, next year, has asked the hot pop band Oasis to perform at the event...
...There are no known suspects, and the little black book Frey kept has not been made public by police or its contents leaked to the press...
...She was personally served and has been ducking the requests and the court-ordered appearance for months," says a staffer for Oversight chairman Rep...
...Fazio will have to decide soon...
...io Downing Street...
...Gingrich-slayer Bonior now has a new reason to watch his back, Lott-Horowitz Back in the fall of 1994, conservative Michael Horowitz began lobbying Republican leaders like then-minority whip Trent Lott for legislation that would bar U.S...
...Clinton asked if, given his and Tony's musical leanings (he plays the sax, Blair the electric guitar), it might be all right to join the band on stage for a couple of numbers...
...He never writes his own lyrics, and the re-tooling was the work of his longtime song-writing partner Bernie Taupin...
...Without further ado, the president nixed the plans, but had Romer and White House aide Rahm Emanuel break the news to the missus...
...Clinton such an event would put a strain on the DNC's already bare-bones budget...
...Then, while Di's friends were actually grieving on the morning of her funeral, John was hard at work inside Westminster Abbey, rehearsing his performance for the biggest worldwide television audience ever...
...Daley Bread Staffers working for Vice President Al Gore report that the veep made more than ten trips between July and September to visit with Chicago mayor Richard Daley, brother of Clinton commerce secretary William Daley...
...Just Beat It Some powerful Washingtonians are breathing a little easier several months after the body of New York dominatrix Nadia Frey was found shot to death in her Upper East Side apartment...
...aid to any country that committed human-rights abuses against Christians or religious minorities...
...Before leaving, the Clintons made sure she had former Defense Secretary William Perry's office and home phone numbers...
...But the people at Justice act like this isn't something they're supposed to do...
...A staffer in Lott's office calls Wolf-Specter "a useless piece of legislation" and says that Lott "has basically told us that under no circumstances is that bill to see the light of day...
...In late August, DNC chairman Roy Romer informed President Clinton that he'd received a memo from the first lady and members of her staff requesting the DNC to plan a fundraiser for her 5oth on October 26...
...Cabin Fever On the way back from covering the Clintons' depositing of daughter Chelsea at Stanford, White House pool reporters on Air Force One were surprised when the president came back to their cabin to chat...
...Loretta Sanchez, the woman who defeated him in California's 46th District last year, to comply with a court-approved subpoena that was served her last spring, as part of the ongoing investigation into possible election fraud in the race she won by fewer than i,000 votes...
...Relations between press and the Clintons have been icy of late —Clinton peeved at what he perceives to be "attack dog" coverage of the fundraising scandals, the press annoyed at having been kept from up-closeand-personal coverage of Clinton's three-week vacation...
...3 already his options are limited...
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...House Oversight Committee mem14 November 1997 The American Spectator bers are angry that the Justice Department has failed to enforce the law and compel Sanchez to obey the subpoena...
...Horowitz threw a fit, and threatened to do everything to kill the bill," says the RSPC staffer...
...Above the Law Loretta Try as Bob Dornan might, he can't get Rep...
...It was an odd hour," said one reporter who had to sit through the history lecture...
...His term as caucus head ends next year, and he's told a California colleague that he'll remain in the House only in a leadership post...
...Arlen Specter and Rep...
...Party Time Bill Clinton's 5oth birthday bash in New York City last year may have been a fundraising disappointment, but why should Hillary pay the price...
...Jailed on prostitution charges in the late 1980's, she turned to sado-masochism and was soon earning $15o an hour...
...Before meeting with Clinton, Morris eagerly approached a small press contingent to say he had no idea the president was going to be at the event, and that he had not spoken with him in months...
...The famously flippy shmaltzmeister made a big fuss about rewriting his Marilyn Monroe song for Di, without really making it clear that he didn't do it...
...Gore is believed to be courting Daley because standout Democratic fundraiser Terry McAuliffe has already told Gore that he is going to be working for his old friend, Dick Gephardt, a likely challenger to Gore for the 2000 Democratic nomination...
...But most distasteful of all is the story Prowler hears from a source at one of the 0 British TV networks at work on a documentary about the tiaras-and-mascara-wearing entertainer...
...Frey was a well-known Washington prostitute for more than 15 years...
...Frank Wolf...
...After the band accepted Blair's offer, he called Bill Clinton with the news...
...Clinton spent more than an hour in the press cabin reminiscing about his failed 1974 congressional run...
...Reporters who've traveled extensively with Clinton say such behavior is fairly normal, particularly when Clinton is looking to smooth over awkward periods...
...Sensing a potential hot-button issue, Lott quickly put Republican Senate Policy Committee staffers to work, and within six months they produced a bill that Lott said "had teeth, lots of sharp teeth," a RSPC staffer recalls...
Vol. 30 • November 1997 • No. 11
