On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Secret Agent Mag Last month's American Spectator cover story on David Watkins's Clinton recollections was widely disseminated among the Secret Service not only in Washington, but also...
...Maybe I should just give her a pat on the shoulder," the president is said to have quipped...
...The Clintons aren't popular with many of us, and while we will always do our jobs to the best of our ability to protect the office of the president, we would have preferred a new boss in 1997...
...weren't being directed by the DNC, but by former DNC chairman and then–Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, as well as high-ranking White House staffers...
...In spite of Trie's connections, though, no one can figure out how he earned the money he donated...
...They were just lying around...
...Sensing an opportunity that could propel him to the White House in 2000, Thompson is counting on televised fireworks between staff attorneys and witnesses, and he's likely to put the spotlight on Vice President Al Gore, whose inept efforts to distance himself from the scandal have already weakened his claim for the top spot...
...I don't want to look foolish chasing that hand all over the place in front of the cameras...
...The source of that money is unclear...
...She then asked this scourge of giant corporations if he "would like to use my lip gloss...
...Sure to be on Thompson's hot seat as well is Rahm Emanuel, retained as a top White House adviser by new chief of staff Erskine Bowles...
...A staunch Dole backer who served as his finance chairman, Merrill is favored to beat conservative choice Tom Pauken of Texas...
...That remark evoked a bemused smile...
...The owner of the purse cautiously retrieved it while Schorr's attention was distracted by other purses around the table...
...Kaplan's sin...
...But in a conference call with members just before the New Year, Boehner strongly pushed for a public airing of the Gingrich matter and electing a new speaker in the interim...
...But staffers in his office say he's much more involved in palace intrigue than has been admitted in the press...
...The Waiting Game No restaurant does a better business during the holidays in Washington than the Palm, where the likes of James Carville and John Sununu are apt to sit at adjoining tables at power lunchtime...
...Alas and alack, not everyone loves TAS...
...Might the woman know whose bag he had spirited away...
...As it turned out, Reno wasn't present at the renomination ceremony...
...As one would expect of National Public Radio's "senior news analyst," Schorr was seated between stylish wives of distinguished ambassadors...
...Boehner knows how to play the media, too: he's always good for a negative quote—on background...
...Burke Remains True After Bob Dole's defeat, it was only a matter of time before his former top staffer Sheila Burke would come into her own...
...The octagenarian startled one of them when he picked up her expensive Judith Leiber purse, put it on his plate, and began examining its contents: an elegant linen hanky, a silver compact, lipstick...
...Loan number one from this SBIC went to Trie's Fu Lin Restaurant...
...Maybe we'll be free sooner than 2000...
...Says one: "When I didn't have anything to do, he'd tell me, 'Go work on the files...
...I never got any specific instructions about them or anything...
...Johnny Two-Face Public comments to the contrary, House Republican Conference leader John Boehner did little to help embattled House Speaker Newt Gingrich during the holiday season...
...Privately, Fowler is telling friends that John Huang & co...
...This was the crack in the armor people have been waiting for," said one agent not currently assigned to the White House...
...Clinton surely continues to irritate her...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Five days before Christmas Washington Post investigative star Bob Woodward along with sportswriters John Feinstein and Tony Komheiser cooled their heels at the entrance to the dining area for almost 20 minutes before being seated...
...Those would be the goo FBI files assembled by Craig Livingstone...
...Party Animal Last fall Daniel Schorr, that paragon of reform and defender of the underdog, found himself at a black-tie fete honoring Arnaud de Borchgrave...
...Pamela Jacovides, wife of Cyprus's ambassador to the United States...
...Merrilly Merrilly If former New Hampshire governor Steve Merrill wins the top slot at the Republican National Committee, expect Democrats to examine his campaign finances...
...Within a week she had her revenge anyway, serving the White House with a flurry of subpoenas concerning potentially illegal campaign fundraising...
...It was the right thing to do," he argued...
...Hand Out Bill Clinton may be stuck with Janet Reno, but that doesn't mean he can't laugh about it...
...After Newt settled with the House Ethics Committee just before Christmas, 14 February 1997 The American Spectator he publicly supported Gingrich's re-election as Speaker...
...The Ohio congressman has long had an eye on the top Republican slot, and knows that those senior to him, Majority Leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay, could be overtaken because they lack the sort of support Boehner has nurtured among younger GOP talent like Steve Largent...
...We can't talk, though some of us have been tempted to, but if more people like Watkins come forward, we won't have to worry about it...
...Sources in both offices say Burke is actively working with these top Democrats on a Democratic blueprint for health-care and welfare issues for the new Congress...
...Merrill admits to spending at least $3oo,000 on his glossy, high-profile run for the RNC chairmanship, but committee sources say that, when all is said and done, the governor will have spent in excess of $75o,000 on mailings to state party supporters, videos, posters, pins, etc...
...Meanwhile, Republicans are expected to put heavy pressure on Democratic National Committee co-chairman Don Fowler before the hearings even commence...
...Merrill claims much of it is from party supporters from around the country...
...Now an associate dean at Harvard's Kennedy School, Burke helped organize its latest bipartisan training seminar for incoming congressional freshmen and their staffs...
...McCurry's people had ready access to these files, though the staffer says he had no idea what, exactly, he was supposed to do with them...
...Fowler believes he is being made the patsy by co-chairman Christopher Dodd and the White House, and is thought to be eager to tell what he knows about DNC fundraising...
...The place was so packed that Donna Shalala (for once) had to leave her five-man security team outside...
...When his wife saw that the lipstick had been used, she realized her husband's error...
...She did—the Gucci in question belonged to Mrs...
...Wang's father is a PRC general who was the hardest of the hardliners during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre...
...She's also helping minority leader Richard Gephardt and Sen...
...Emanuel was a key fundraiser for Clinton and the DNC before moving to thoo Pennsylvania Ave., where he has coordinated fund-raising visits by prominent business types...
...Thompson's Game Tennessee Sen...
...Early the next morning, the woman received an agitated call from Schorr: he hadmistaken the purses for "party favors," and taken home an expensive Gucci handbag...
...It wouldn't have been so bad, if it weren't for the fact that the man couldn't even help Dole win New Hampshire...
...In this magazine's Christmas books issue, he recommended "scurrilous books" that attack "our president...
...Two weeks after failing to come through, he found his excuse, telling his editor at Freedom House, Roger Kaplan, he would not be able to work with someone who writes for TAS...
...Oit,} The American Spectator ?February 1997 15...
...But consider: After his restaurant reported a loss in 1983, he was helped out by a Small Business Investment Corporation called Lippo Finance and Investment (later sold to Worthen Bank) —one of the RiadyLippo Group's first Arkansas ventures...
...Fred Thompson is serious about the Indogate hearings he will co-chair: in interviewing lawyers to investigate Asian ties to the White House and Democratic National Committee, his staff has limited candidates almost exclusively to those with federal prosecutorial experience...
...Current Slate magazine hack Jacob Weisberg, perhaps reliving his days as a Rhodes Scholar, recently missed a three-month deadline on an assignment from Freedom House, the bipartisan New York–based foreign policy think tank...
...From everything we've heard, we anticipate knowing what the Republicans will be doing before they do it themselves...
...I know the media will be all over us for weeks if we don't do it...
...Prowler hopes that next time o everyone recommends Weis-berg's own forgotten book above all others...
...A couple of nights after his re-election, she rented Blue— a film about a woman coming to terms with what a rat the man in her life has been...
...He was a real pest during the campaign," said an RNC staffer of Merrill...
...ON THE PROWL Secret Agent Mag Last month's American Spectator cover story on David Watkins's Clinton recollections was widely disseminated among the Secret Service not only in Washington, but also in Dallas, Chicago, and Los Angeles...
...Jacovides was surprised to hear that he had the missing bag—and to hear that Schorr wanted her to come to his place to get it...
...It's like having the other team's signs," says one staffer...
...She's been a great help...
...File Under: McCurry White House spokesman Mike McCurry is generally known as an easy-going, laidback sort of fellow...
...While discussing how he would introduce new members of his cabinet and renominate others, including Reno, Clinton joked that he might have to shake hands with Reno, whose Parkinson's disease makes her hands shake involuntarily...
...But when the lunch line gets too long, it's amazing who will wait for a table, even if it's a lousy one...
...Trie Top The mystery deepens around Charles Yah Lin Trie, the former Little Rock restaurateur, major DNC donor, and fundraiser for Bill Clinton's legal defense fund who had the clout to bring Red Chinese arms dealer Wang Jun to a White House coffee klatch with Clinton...
Vol. 30 • February 1997 • No. 2
