On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Don't Call Me Hillary Clinton claims she first heard about the Monica Lewinsky scandal from her husband early Wednesday morning, January 2 1 , as the news broke. But according to...
...New York's Finest The appeal of ioo,000 new policemen is becoming clearer: In 1994 President Clinton was in New York for a function at the United • The American Spectator from the White House or the Clinton friend again...
...They don't want to be tarred with anything down the road, and the DNC is pushing a 'stay local' strategy," says a mid-level official of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
...But according to a White House press aide, it was none other than traveling White House press secretary Joe Lockhart who informed the traveling White House press corps of the time and location of the first family's impromptu event that day...
...On the fourth day, the female student received yet another call...
...He knew they were there...
...Deficit Disorder Clinton attorney Robert Bennett is said to be in hot water with his partners at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom over the amount of time he is spending defending the president in the Paula Jones suit...
...Good Girl On January 28 a staffer to the first lady called Chelsea Clinton out at Stanford, to inform her that she was "needed" back in Washington for a long weekend visit with her parents at Camp David...
...The only sign of emotion we saw was when it was reported on Friday that one of the gifts her husband gave to Lewinsky was the Walt Whitman book, Leaves of Grass...
...This year is not going to be a cakewalk...
...Though paid at least $i million by Clinton's insurance companies more than two years ago, Bennett and his partners have yet to be paid any of the $z million in fees that have accumulated since...
...They are right there on the edge with him...
...Of greatest Democratic concern is the Senate, where three female incumbents—Washington's Patty Murray, California's Barbara Boxer, and Illinois's Carol Moseley-Braun—were already facing tough races before the scandal broke...
...She was upset, but not visibly so...
...He slept for several hours in one of the residence guest bedrooms—alone...
...The press had been in boats cruising along the shoreline for two days prior to the video looking for a good vacation photo op, and hadn't found one...
...This source says that during the trip up President Clinton tried to reach his wife three times by telephone...
...That's a lot of money to go unpaid for a firm like this, and the partners would like to see one of their rainmakers focus on bringing in clients who will pay their bills in a timely fashion...
...After the event, 4 according to this source, the 1a Clintons returned to the residence with aides without speaking to each other...
...It was not an enjoyable train ride to Baltimore...
...The next day his friend returned to Princeton...
...The cop laughed the incident off...
...According to a member of the film's production staff, Simon, a glitzy friend of the Clintons, pulled her songs as soon as the scandal hit, citing a wish not to hurt or embarrass the first family further...
...Meanwhile, Republicans are worried about keeping the House, where their n-seat margin is seen as too narrow for comfort...
...Flight arrangements had been made, the young Clinton was told, and she was flying out mid-morning Thursday...
...I was allowed to bring a guest, so I invited a female friend who was attending Princeton...
...Hillary declined to take them, even though she was sitting next to the assistant holding the cell phone...
...The first lady had gotten up before her husband, to prepare for a trip to Baltimore's Goucher College for a speech on race relations...
...When Riley tired of his dog-walking duties minutes later, the president let the dog roam freely...
...As the detail was breaking up in midtown Manhattan, the woman's mother told the Prowler, at least three Secret Service officers from the president's personal detail approached her with job offers and business cards that included a number for the Office of the President...
...It's gotten worse, because all three strongly backed the president immediately following the scandal," the official said...
...She was just on cloud nine that she actually danced with the President of the United States," he recalls...
...Do You Wanna Dance...
...Over the next two days, according to this former intern, his friend received two more such phone calls from the same woman...
...The officer—a brunette who has appeared in police recruitment ads—apparently caught the president's eye...
...A Case of the Jitters The president's popularity post-Monica notwithstanding, congressional Democrats up for re-election this year don't plan to include Bill Clinton in their campaigns...
...A lot of us thought it was funny that the president acted so upset about it, when in the video he's clearly got that 'swagger' from sucking in his gut for the cameras...
...But according to White House sources, it didn't exactly happen that way...
...But Chelsea balked...
...Residuals Chocolate labster Buddy Clinton has lost no time makNations...
...A former intern from Stanford University recalls the time he was invited to a White House dinner in early 1994 as a reward for work he'd done on the Clinton health care reform initiative...
...President Clinton and his aides were said to be "indignant" at the surreptitious video made of the first couple "dancing" in beach dishabille during their early January vacation in the Virgin Islands...
...This former intern, now attending law school in the Midwest, says they had a good time...
...I'll never forget it...
...Hillary stayed up to await the arrival of her brother Tony Rodham from Florida, while Bill retreated to a second-floor conference room with aides Paul Begala and Rahm Emanuel...
...Scheduled for release in March, the movie will now have to do without the several songs pop singer Carly Simon wrote for it...
...Among the New York City Police assigned to the presidential protection detail was a 32-year-old female uniformed sergeant from a Manhattan anti-drug task force...
...She was looking forward to attending the big Stanford-University of Arizona basketball showdown that evening...
...The evening was capped off when the president approached the couple, thanked the intern for all his help, and then asked his date for a "spin around the dance floor...
...She looked shaken, and said, 'He gave me the same book after our second date.'" White House Calls Is the 'White House intern program anything more than a gussied up procurement service for the president...
...Could she fly out Friday morning, she asked...
...As a birthday treat, you have the privilege of keeping Buddy on his leash...
...As he prepared to depart a half-hour later, Clinton found Buddy in a corner of the room where the creature had tried to devour a plastic plant and thrown up his kibble...
...Chelsea left early Sunday to be back at Stanford in time for Monday morning classes...
...The day after she returned to school," he says, "she called me, saying a woman identifying herself as a secretary to the president had called and told her what a great time the president had dancing with her...
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...Regarding the scandal, a smart incumbent will just say, let the truth win out,' and talk about local issues...
...We should be up three to six points in every seat we currently hold, and we barely lead in half of them," says a member of the RNC staff...
...Carlysimo One loser in the Lewinsky aftermath is Primary Colors, the film directed by Mike Nichols from Joe Klein's semi-fictional account of Clinton's '92 presidential campaign...
...She declined, saying she had another job opportunity, and never heard March 1998ing enemies in his master's administration...
...The first lady's mask cracked only once, according to the source...
...The answer was no, and she departed as ordered—in time for Saturday morning papers nationwide to run photos of a beaming president and the devoted daughter who had rushed home to support dear dad...
...The Republican National Committee's generic ballot surveys taken last November show Democrats and Republicans running in numerous dead heats around the country...
...Clinton's insurance companies are out of it now, and it isn't clear that the president will be able to pay it off any time soon...
...It's billable revenue that has not been collected," said a source at the firm...
...We were all aware the press was looking for a shot," the aide said, adding that the first family knew full well the press corps "might be around that morning...
...She first heard about it from news clips and Roberta Green [her deputy chief of staff] before leaving the White House," says one of the White House sources...
...On arriving at education secretary Richard Riley's 65th birthday celebration at the Education Department in early January, President Clinton entered the small auditorium where the party was taking place and said, "Here, Dick...
...My friend said she thanked her and rang off...
...As for the "family weekend" at Camp David, Mom flew off to Switzerland while Dad logged more than six hours Saturday on the golf course, and then two more holed up with personal attorney David Kendall after dinner...
...This time it was from a leading Friend of Bill, who said he was seeking qualified applicants for a summer job in Washington and that the White House had recommended her...
...That evening, the Clintons hosted the White House Endowment Fund dinner...
...Just chilly and withdrawn...
...It was a tremendous night...
...After dinner, there was entertainment and dancing...
Vol. 31 • March 1998 • No. 3
