On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Shady Lady White House reporters who accompanied the First Family on its recent European tour to Spain, Romania, and Poland couldn't help but notice that the First Lady was...
...the day of 14 September 1997 • The American Spectator the event the DNC announced a take of $1.5 million, but DNC sources say the gate for the event was less than $i million...
...Since then the Secret Service has had to clear a number of visitors for overnight stays in the presidential residence...
...As for Bill Paxon, it appears his usefulness to Newt ended some time before July's coup days...
...The Point of Trooperflap Everyone may have missed the point in the flap over Kenneth Starr's interviews with Bill Clinton's Arkansas state troopers...
...Christopher Cox, the California conservative who is expected to take over some of the duties previously held by the disgraced Bill Paxon...
...Trent Jones golf course in Front Royal, Virginia...
...Flying the Coup There weren't many winners after the aborted July coup against Newt Gingrich, other than maybe Rep...
...Not all donors are coming through, however...
...In June and July he attended major fundraisers in California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Florida...
...Getting Himself Gergenized During the first two weeks of July, former HUD chief and Dole running mate jack Kemp visited with both President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore at the White House on two separate occasions for meetings that lasted about 45 minutes each...
...In fact, a week or so before the botched coup, Gingrich tossed a bone to conservative members by removing Paxon from his advisory group...
...Gingrich has removed plotters Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, and John Boehner from his "Speaker's Advisory Group" and replaced them with new Republican Conference vice chair Jennifer Dunn , Conference secretary Deborah Pryce, Christopher Shays, Bob Ney, and Jim Walsh, all of them members of the moderate to liberal "Tuesday Group...
...According to a Commerce staffer, "John was telling us that he was going to save the Democratic Party...
...That's a number that the DNC determined was necessary to cover debts and lay the groundwork for the '98 election cycle...
...Sullivan was a relative neophyte to the political fundraising game at the DNC," one staffer said, "and in depositions with our lawyers, we got the impression that he potentially could give us something, particularly when he told us that he considered the White House coffees to be fundraisers...
...A month later, Clinton struck out in once generous Hollywood: a party organized by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Lew Wasserman raised less than $1.2 million, or not even half of the expected take of $2.5 million...
...The only new conservative member of the inner circle group appears to be Cox, who's never displayed an appetite or stomach for the kind of political gamesmanship many of his colleagues wound up unable to pull off in their coup attempt...
...At one point he announced that he wasn't going to be at Commerce much longer, that he had friends in high places who had bigger plans for him...
...Goldberg, who was starring on Broadway in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, put together an abbreviated performance of the musical, with tickets for the show and a sit-down dinner going for between $250 and $5,000...
...As it happens, Huang knew the White House was out to help him...
...King demanded that Johnson clarify his remarks, CNN sources said, but Johnson pointedly but respectfully declined to do so...
...Once she announced she was moving to CBS, it left her husband an unlikely lame duck...
...On Mended Knee o On July i8 and 19 President 2 Clinton spent a combined eighteen hours at the Robert `6...
...Sounds like he's angling to be thrown off Steve Forbes's bus once again...
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...On top of that, the extra duty cost the county at least one hour's double overtime for each of the cops...
...But the luxury building also provided digs for bond dealer Dan Lasater, the Clinton family friend and convicted cocaine distributor...
...These weren't just any shades, but such designer brands as Giorgio Armani, Anne Klein, and Ray Ban...
...But friends of Kemp say he is angling for one of two positions: special trade envoy or ambassador to Japan, a post expected to be vacated soon by Walter Mondale...
...Sullivan didn't entirely disappoint, particularly when he cast fellow fundraiser and former Commerce Department official John Huang in a negative light, acknowledging that President Clinton pressured his bosses to hire Huang at the DNC...
...A June event organized by actress Whoopi Goldberg fell flat with New York Democrats...
...A deft conciliator, he helped Armey regain a modicum of Newt's trust—the only elected party leader still tolerated by Gingrich—when along with such colleagues as Dunn he persuaded Gingrich that Armey never really wanted to dump him as speaker...
...Back to the Big Room President Clinton is attempting to raise between $1.5 million to $2 million per week for the Democratic National Committee...
...Sullivan said he was nervous about testifying because he was due to take the bar exam soon," said the committee source...
...We thought he'd essentially confirm the story Thompson was going to lay out in his opening statement...
...For some reason, Clinton just keeps running up the tab and wasting all our time...
...More interestingly, this source told the Prowler, Clinton has reopened the Lincoln bedroom to "guests...
...Bush used to fly to the golf course and it was cheaper for both the feds and us," said a Fairfax law enforcement official...
...Investigators are tracking Clinton's visits to the Qua-paw Towers apartment in Little Rock, where Gennifer Flowers once lived...
...Clinton is spending at least two days a week on fundraising matters, which include lunches and dinners inside the White House with small groups of six to ten people and larger events around the country...
...The stated reason by the White House press office was that Kemp was being consulted by both men on how to negotiate with Republicans over tax policy in the then-ongoing budget talks...
...Since February, Starr's office has kept talking to only one of the troopers, Roger Perry...
...While the president announced himself pleased with his performance, the Fairfax County Police Department was furious...
...The staffer added that Clinton was advised that "all the other leader's wives would be wearing them...
...She brought at least five pairs with her on the trip," a Hillary staffer told the Prowler...
...The first lady believes it gives her a different persona from the one the American public was used to seeing...
...More than twenty visitors slept in the guestroom between April and July 1. "I don't think more than three or four guests stayed in the Lincoln bedroom between January and March," said the source...
...Said a House source at the time: "Gingrich just doesn't think Paxon can help him win over the conservatives, and he's going to need those votes when it comes time for the final balanced-budget vote, and Medicare reform...
...Then the press corps dropped it when it realized the story was "old news...
...It's not like someone just threw the number out," said a White House source...
...An orchestrated campaign belabored Starr for salacious interest in Clinton's sex life...
...Shoe-Leather King CNN talk-show host Larry King was said to be angered by CNN chairman Tom Johnson's comments to reporters that while all CNN reporters and news anchors would henceforth be barred from appearing in advertisements and films, it would be all right for King to do so because "he has never pretended to be a journalist...
...But Sullivan, who got his job as DNC finance director on the recommendation of chief Clinton fundraiser Terry McAuliffe, didn't come through, testifying instead that the DNC never considered the White House coffees to be fundraisers, and placing much of the blame for the fundraising scandal at the feet of his boss, DNC finance chairman Marvin Rosen, and party co-chairman Don Fowler...
...No Explanation Despite more than eight hours of testimony at the Thompson hearings by Richard Sullivan, Senate Government Affairs Committee staff can't explain why he was selected as its first witness other than to say it was a calculated decision on the part of chairman Fred Thompson...
...Its main focus, Perry now tells friends, isn't so much Clinton's extra-marital affairs as allegations of his drug use...
...He's told me he has no affinity for the current leadership in the Republican Party...
...It now seems though that Starr did have an interest in Bill's personal behavior, but it wasn't his sex life...
...It sent a formal complaint to the White House and the Secret Service about having to pull more than thirty police officers from their regular patrols in order to secure on- and off-ramps along the presidential motorcade's 50-mile Interstate 66 route to the course from Washington...
...ON THE PROWL Shady Lady White House reporters who accompanied the First Family on its recent European tour to Spain, Romania, and Poland couldn't help but notice that the First Lady was spending an inordinate amount of time wearing sunglasses...
...The goal was to raise $2.2 million...
...He doesn't want to run again, but he thinks he can establish himself as a bipartisan administration type," says a Kemp friend...
...PaxonSusan Molinari—with whom Newt was said to be "smitten...
...Besides, Paxon's dispensability might have had something to do with Mrs...
...And those were friends of the family...
...An image consultant recommended that she wear them to create an artificial barrier between her and the press...
...More than ioo tickets were given away to local Boys' Clubs in order to fill the theater...
...I don't know what he was nervous about, given he's already thinking and talking like a lawyer...
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