On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Hermann Rodham Clinton And Hillary Rodham Clinton wonders why the Secret Service doesn't like her. On her recent trip to an international economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, the...
...After about five runs through the powder, Clinton quit for the day, though not before requiring Secret Service assistance one o last time: She ordered one member of her security team to pull off her ski boots, and o another to carry her skis, poles, and boots back to the rental stand...
...When Clinton traveled to New Mexico in late January to talk up his 1999 budget, native son Donaldson went along as part of the traveling press contingent...
...I'm Outta Here The abrupt departure of White House maitre d' Alfredo Saenz has staffers wondering...
...I think he considered what it would be like to have challenged the second-most powerful man in Congress and lost, and decided making that kind of trouble just wasn't worth the hassle," the Hill source says...
...But the plan isn't fooling anyone...
...David Satcher, whom few Republicans were willing to oppose if it came to that...
...New Jersey Catholics suggest that a man who cannot stand up to an unpopular Republican governor is hardly a man who should be charged with dealing with the Chinese Communist Party...
...President") Donaldson to new heights...
...This looks less like democracy and more like a disaster in action," Albright told staff as she walked off the stage...
...McCarrick's gesture undercut not only pro-life Republicans, but neighboring Bishop James McHugh, who has forbidden pro-choice politicians of any stripe to use church premises...
...In the days before Ronald Reagan's 87th birthday, Senate Republicans spearheading the drive to rename Washington National Airport after the former president weren't certain they had the votes—even though the White House had already announced Bill Clinton would sign the bill...
...In return he would not fight the airport's renaming and leave it at that...
...For service beyond the call of duty, the enlisted man received an undated three-day pass...
...The atmosphere was such that a breast-feeding mother even asked 14 April 19 9 8 The American Spectator the newsman to autograph the breast her child was suckling—and he obliged...
...And she tried the intermediate slopes, even though she's a beginner...
...Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Newark, spent 18 days in China in February delving into the state of religious tolerance in that country...
...Another reason for Clinton to disdain Sam...
...Yet after that meeting, the Prowler has learned, DeLay met privately with influential Republican sophomore and Armey critic Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and lobbied on Paxon's behalf...
...In the aftermath of that conversation, Gingrich spoke to DeLay, one of the men involved with Paxon in the attempted coup against the Speaker last summer...
...Saenz, who incidentally has not been subpoenaed by anyone, won't say why he quit his post—but it's a position that is directly overseen by the first lady and her staff...
...Albright had been leery from the very beginning, but Kaplan — who'd negotiated exclusive rights for CNN's coverage—promised the meeting would be tightly controlled, and White House staffers such as Sidney Blumenthal insisted such forums played well with the American public...
...It's Not Funny In the aftermath of Monica, instructors at the three major military academies received identical memos from academy attorneys (presumably acting on instructions from the Pentagon) which stated: "While it is expected talk and jokes about President Clinton's current situation will occur in and out of the classroom environment, faculty—while certainly allowed to participate in such discussions—are expected not to tell such jokes, and should not refer to the commander-in-chief in a satirical manner...
...There's a bigger problem Ferraro may not be aware of— a lot of the Reagan Democrats have switched to the Republican Party...
...Majority leader Trent Lott was showing a readiness to push up the vote for surgeon general appointee Dr...
...On her recent trip to an international economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, the first lady took time out from her busy schedule managing her husband's intern program to try her legs at skiing in the vast Swiss Alps...
...Coverdell thought he had the votes without a GOP cave on Satcher, but Lott overruled him and made his agreement with Daschle anyway...
...But many in New Jersey wonder why McCarrick was included...
...In return for Ted Kennedy's support, John McCain was ready to have the Justice Department recast as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building...
...There was even discussion in the Republican Senate caucus to offer Democrats a chance to rename the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building...
...How high...
...Gerryatrics Former vice-presidential hopeful Geraldine Ferraro thinks she's figured out how to upend unrepentant liberal and camera-hog Charles Schumer in this year's New York Democratic Senate primary: she'll pitch herself as a Reagan Democrat...
...Bob Livingston appears certain to challenge Armey in January 1999 for majority leader...
...But McCarthy, who is running for Illinois secretary of state, declined the offer...
...Turns out she's as fearless as Hermann Maier...
...He thought she was too liberal for his constituents' tastes," the DNC source says...
...So they began to cut deals...
...The first lady tumbled a number of times, and at one point remained on her back in the snow until a Secret Service agent came along to haul her up...
...While the phone calls were generally favorable and friendly—the first was from a member of the military in support of action in Iraq—CNN and the White House proved inept in screening attendees, a key portion of whom slipped through to heckle and berate Albright in particular...
...He remains under fire in his own diocese for allowing Christie Whitman—the pro-choice GOP governor who almost lost her re-election bid last fall due to inyour-face veto proclamations that she will oppose any limits on partial-birth abortions—to use Newark's Sacred Heart Cathedral for an ecumenical prayer service on inauguration day...
...Don Argue, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the New York-based Appeal of Conscience Foundation, and the Most Rev...
...Keeping Abreast of the News Monicagate is raising the profile of Clinton-nemesis Sam ("Hold on there, Mr...
...It looks like democracy in action," one White House aide is said to have told Albright...
...Gingrich told him to stay out of whatever feud there might be between Paxon and Armey," another Hill source tells the Prowler...
...What's in a Name...
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...The Navy took that admonition a step further...
...Paxon said only that he would support Gingrich as speaker, and that he might challenge Armey for leader...
...Although this 27-year veteran of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was closing in on retirement age, he'd given no indication that he was thinking of leaving anytime soon from a job that saw him in charge of dining room operations for both formal and informal White House affairs...
...Says the staffer: "Her behavior didn't go over very well with the six-person detail...
...Christie and the Archbishop A delegation led by the Rev...
...During the last week of February, Paxon's staff began tallying up potential votes, and found support for him too soft to guarantee even a serious challenge to Armey, particularly since Louisiana Rep...
...Meanwhile, throughout Clinton's presentation Donaldson was busy signing autographs and shaking hands...
...She went by herself and her Secret Service detail," says a staffer to the first lady...
...During Defense Secretary William Cohen's brief visit to the USS George Washington in the Persian Gulf, an enlisted man was ordered to ask Cohen this question in front of cameras from Armed Forces Television: "Sir, how is the president holding up during this trying time...
...One Republican not pleased with the side deal was Georgia's Paul Coverdell, whom Lott had put in charge of the Reagan National issue...
...Goodbye, Columbus Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was livid with White House events planners and CNN News head Rick Kaplan, who's turned his network into the Clinton Network News, for the embarrassment she suffered at the hands of demonstrators at the February 18 Ohio State town hall meeting on Iraq...
...At the time, a source close to Gingrich says, the speaker did not dissuade Paxon from making the challenge...
...On cue, Cohen replied: "Your commander-in-chief is staying focused on the crisis in the Gulf...
...For his part, Kaplan promised to limit the number of questions from the audience, and to set up in advance a series of questions from callers who would be screened at least one day before the event so CNN and the White House could vet the questions...
...In mid-January Gerry offered to endorse conservative Democrat Tim McCarthy, the police chief of Orland Park, Illinois, and former Secret Service agent who took a bullet for President Ronald Reagan during the assassination attempt by John Hinckley...
...According to a Democratic National Committee source, Ferraro has been busy trying to meet with moderate-to-conservative Democrats around the country for photo-ops and endorsement swaps...
...Quitting While He Was Behind New York Congressman Bill Paxon's decision to retire from the House had little to do with family and everything to do with Newt Gingrich's fickle taste for colleagues in his leadership...
...In the end, Senate minority leader Tom Daschle accepted Lott's offer for a quick vote on Satcher...
...In Albuquerque, much to the chagrin of White House planners who had done everything to ensure the president a friendly crowd, Donaldson was mobbed while Clinton received what staffers felt was a lukewarm reception...
...At a House GOP retreat in Williamsburg, Gingrich cornered Paxon and asked him to support the current leadership ticket, which includes House majority leader Dick Armey, whip Tom Delay, and caucus leader John Boehner...
Vol. 31 • April 1998 • No. 4
