On the Prowl
0 N THE PROWL The West Huang When the Democratic National Committee made much of its post-election furloughing of ace fundraiser John Huang, it failed to mention that it gave Huang a six-figure...
...Steve Largent in an unsuccesful effort to persuade him to challenge Boehner for the conference committee post...
...It didn't seem to trouble Newt that Largent himself had publicly urged him to step down...
...Ickes's number one priority was chief of staff...
...White House talk has him negotiating with Viacom, Inc., the parent company of MTV...
...file down, way down...
...The animosity carried over into the Santopietro hearing: during his testimony, Keefe took a zing at her spousal embarrassment...
...Lott himself wants to keep Vermont liberal Jim Jeffords from taking over Nancy Kassebaum's old committee, Labor and Human Resources...
...He says it's a trivial matter...
...There was a certain wistfulness about their thank-you and good-bye...
...At a late October hearing, McGann argued that her client deserved a new trial in part because his previous counsel was no good...
...Even allowing for the state-booster rhetoric, Huckabee's talk was a remarkable repudiation of the corrupt regimes of his predecessors, Jim Guy Tucker and that other guy...
...The House Oversight committee wants to know...
...Out of respect for Dole several senators and staffers have suggested moving the trees, but Lott—who claims they are there to block nosy photographers — refiises...
...Citing a wish to spend more time with her family, Tyson said she would return to her University of California teaching post, bypassing a possible appointment to head the Departments of Labor or Commerce...
...Dodd says this all happened without his knowledge, a claim rather too consistent with his frequent "So what...
...he also expressed an interest in a 'senior White House adviser' title and deputy secretary positions at Labor and Commerce...
...Clean Break Post-Whitewater Arkansas is a more family oriented, honest, and politically open place to work and invest, Governor Mike Huckabee told a group of media types in a recent expedition to New York City...
...McGann," he said, "but I don't like to be a doormat for anybody...
...The betting is he'll do nothing...
...representatives and a GOP lieutenant governor, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller...
...He has a thin pool of talent on which to draw for appointments, and the elections didn't greatly improve the Republicans' meager presence in the state legislature...
...Besides, he has bigger trees to worry about...
...Power Couple Eileen McGann, the long-suffering wife of former Clinton strategist Dick Morris, is making waves in her own right...
...More galling to Ickes was that Clinton never met with him to discuss the chief of staff position, nor has Clinton met or spoken with Ickes privately about any role in the second administration...
...He's expected to return to his law practice in New York sometime after the new year...
...After her husband, screenwriter Eric Tarloff, and their son returned to California about six months ago, rumors began circulating that another high-profile Clinton adviser was facing marital difficulties...
...Stephanopolous,meanwhile, is expected to land something more exciting...
...Since Congress is notoriously reluctant to investigate a colleague—the animus against Newt Gingrich derives from what he did to former speaker Jim Wright—questions about Dodd's role make another argument for referring the case to an independent counsel...
...After Dole's resignation last spring, Republicans and Democrats unanimously voted to name the balcony of the majority leader's office the "Bob Dole Balcony," in tribute to the Kansan's penchant for holding meetings outside...
...In the 12-page White House Clinton scandal "task list" memo released to House and Senate White-water investigators last July, which Sherburne compiled in November 1994, she listed as a potential problem area "residence renovations...
...He was not on the ballot himself this time...
...Meanwhile, Gingrich continues to alienate the hardliners...
...Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, was elected as lieutenant governor in a 1993 upset, after a campaign in which he railed against the state's one-party lid on competition—a recipe, he said, for carelessness and corruption...
...14 January 1997 The American Spectator Here's to Old Friends As expected, almost half of President Clinton's cabinet went running for the exits after the election...
...Both were instrumental in leaking demands that Gingrich step down as speaker during Newt's ethics inquiries...
...stonewalling during the Senate Whitewater hearings...
...AVery, Very Fine House Did White House deputy counsel Jane Sherburne know about a scandal before anyone else...
...I don't know about you, Ms...
...That would have been Hugh Keefe, one of Connecticut's best-known attorneys...
...In a recent suit Keefe—representing the family of Williams's deceased law partner—accused Williams of misappropriating the proceeds of her life insurance...
...Ugly Plaque Build-Up House Majority Leader Trent Lott didn't waste time exorcising the spirit of Bob Dole from the Senate...
...Incidentally, reporting on e the DNC scandals has remarkably omitted one question: How much of the shady dealing was sponsored by Dodd himself...
...George Stephanopoulos said he'd be glad to pass along a memo to Clinton from Ickes that laid out what exactly he was looking to do in the next administration," a White House source tells the Prowler...
...He'd prefer to go with the second-ranking Republican, Indiana's Dan Coats —but that would mean an unprecedented violation of Senate seniority tradition...
...Representatives of the music-video channel approached him shortly after the campaign about hosting a weekly, half-hour "news and information-oriented show" for young people...
...To criticize Keefe's trial performance, McGann produced civil-rights lawyer John Williams, a notorious Keefe rival...
...According to a House committee source, he still would like to prevent Rep...
...Gingrich was so angered was by Boehner's none-too-subtle attempt to position himself for the speakership, that he met several times with Oklahoma Rep...
...The high-profile defense lawyer has the Connecticut bar in an uproar with her attempt to free Joseph Santopietro, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury who was convicted in 1992 in a federal corruption case that took down a good part of City Hall...
...Now, McCain is arguing, if Lott can do it for Coats, why not for Warner...
...While more than $1 million in dirty money raised by Huang has now been returned, he raised a lot more than that for the party last year and he's not being written off...
...And Clinton somehow "could not find the time" to meet with his old friend to discuss a possible promotion...
...In a private meeting with party co-chairman Sen...
...Committee investigators wonder whether this was a reference to the DNC's shakedown of Asian businessmen for funds to renovate a childhood home of Bill Clinton's in Arkansas and turn it into a museum...
...But after Lott moved in, he placed several large trees on the balcony that obscure the plaque commemorating his predecessor...
...Dan Burton from succeeding William Clinger as chairman of the Clinton-investigating House Government Reform and Oversight Committee...
...But one man who saw the numerous resignations as an opportunity for a power grab was sorely disappointed...
...In November Arkansas voters elected their first Republican U.S...
...Goin' Back to Cali One of the surprise resignations from Clinton's cabinet was lead economic adviser Laura D'Andrea Tyson, who in the past two years had gained unprecedented access to (and trust from) the prez...
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...Christopher Dodd before the furlough was announced, 5 Dodd told Huang he was a 2 "party hero" and joked that I his services would always be welcome so long as Huang kept his "chin up and his pro...
...But Panetta declined to recommend him for the post in the days leading up to the election, which would have allowed Ickes to leak his name to the press, thereby clearing out some of the competition...
...At least from the president's perspective, he was very sorry to see her go, and expressed those feelings openly...
...Clinton didn't want to accept this resignation," says one White House staffer...
...Harold Ickes, the president's deputy chief of staff, was hopeful for a bump upwards after Leon Panetta announced his resignation...
...and though he has maintained an 8o percent approval rating, Huckabee still faces tough odds...
...It defies credulity that lower level apparatchiks, even the hyperactive Huang himself, were responsible for such a string of abuses, which under Dodd's watch have included the suspension of safeguards against illegal contributions and failure to file a final preelection report to the Federal Election Commission...
...0 N THE PROWL The West Huang When the Democratic National Committee made much of its post-election furloughing of ace fundraiser John Huang, it failed to mention that it gave Huang a six-figure payout, or that he has already spoken with departing White House chief of staff Leon Panetta and current White House counsel Jack Quinn about doing "volunteer" fundraising work in California for a '98 Panetta gubernatorial run and a z000 Gore for President campaign, which Quinn expects to help run...
...But the meaning of the memo seemed to convey to George that it was chief of staff or nothing, since he knew there wasn't a chance in hell he could survive a congressional confirmation...
...senator of modern times, as well as two Republican U.S...
...And it was obvious that it wasn't a typical sendoff...
...Boehner on the Make Though House Republicans voted to keep their leadership intact for the io5th Congress, Speaker Newt Gingrich remains furious with majority whip Tom DeLay and Republican conference committee chair John Boehner...
...John Warner, who wants to replace Strom Thurmond as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is using John McCain and Rick Santorum to lobby Lott...
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