All Too Human
Stephanopoulos, George
BOOKS IN REVIEW StairMaster All Too Human: A Political Education George Stephanopoulos Little, Brown /456 pages / $27.95 REVIEWED BY Byron York Ari don't put anything down in writing,"...
...In a note at the end of the book, Stephanopoulos says that while he didn't keep a diary himself, he arranged for a friend, the left-wing journalist Eric Alterman, to keep one for him...
...But it was really just another appearance problem...
...Gimmick refers to married couples merely as "partners," lest sinners ("domestic partners") feel excluded or uncomfortable...
...Clinton didn't even know this woman, he told me...
...Sure enough, they discovered that Clinton, while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, got out of the draft by promising to join the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas—and then breaking the promise...
...While there are obligatory descriptions of health care, the economy, and other campaign issues, most of Stephanopoulos's narrative is really an extended meditation on Bill Clinton's character...
...His assignment was simple: Anytime anyone questioned the candidate's character, Stephanopoulos was to stomp them flat...
...BOOKS IN REVIEW StairMaster All Too Human: A Political Education George Stephanopoulos Little, Brown /456 pages / $27.95 REVIEWED BY Byron York Ari don't put anything down in writing," White House loyalist Sidney Blumenthal once said when asked whether he kept a diary of his work in the Clinton administration...
...He gave the same response when he received a House subpoena asking for, among other things, "diaries, notes, letters, journal entries" or any other information that he had "written, typed, printed, recorded, transcribed, taped," or in some other way preserved...
...Dollars...
...It wasn't just a story for the press...
...So he settled on a simple plan: deny the allegations, vilify the troopers, and denounce TAS...
...I don't think I was a hypocrite," he concludes, "but maybe I was complicit because when I worked for Clinton I had been willing to suspend my disbelief about some of his more suspect denials...
...The alter Christus thinks he's thealtar comic...
...He got into a jam when his friend Josh Steiner—remember him...
...Seeing Clinton lie, Stephanopoulos says, "caused me to focus even more intently on his strengths and believe even more fervently in his ideas...
...Now his book, All Too Human: A Political Education, has come out, and it contains scrupulously detailed accounts of some of the most important events of Stephanopoulos's White House tenure...
...It's going way too far...
...she told a television interviewer...
...in 1996, when Stephanopoulos was questioned by House investigators looking into the firings of the White House BYRON YORK is an investigative writer with TAS...
...And how did he recapture the exact wording of all those conversations...
...T he morning after the 1992 election, an exhausted Stephanopoulos drove to the Arkansas governor's mansion to savor a quiet moment with Bill and Hillary Clinton...
...The Clintons were intransigent," he writes, "and the reporters were self-absorbed...
...A one-night stand or two...
...And First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made it clear she'd never even consider a diary...
...Reading the second Star story, I couldn't help but assume that something had happened with Gennifer," he writes...
...So Stephanopoulos made it known that the scandal had forced him to reassess his old boss...
...Her appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 1994, choreographed by Clinton arch-enemy Cliff Jackson, struck Stephanopoulos as "a farcical turn on Advertiser Index You can make a difference for The American Spectator by patronizing its advertisers...
...The Tabernacle with the reserved Sacrament has disappeared from the sanctuary...
...Avoid the issue...
...The purpose of the liturgy has been transformed from receiving Christ into celebrating our wonderful selves...
...He said it was just a "fluke" that he wasn't drafted in 1969...
...They'd stop at nothing to defeat him...
...the president said he didn't remember Jones...
...Stephanopoulos later talked it over with fellow damage-controller Paul Begala, who chalked the problem up to a clash of generations...
...Within days, he was telling that to a grand jury...
...She was being used...
...I felt like a man on a noble mission," Stephanopoulos remembers...
...Stephanopoulos claims he knew almost nothing about the firings before they happened, although his deputy, Jeff Eller, was deeply involved...
...almost all the investigations are over...
...in his view, everyone shares the blame...
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...And, not being one to exempt himself from criticism, Stephanopoulos would take a hard look at his own role in it all...
...He knew that "fluke" was such a catchy word that some reporters were sure to be curious...
...While Stephanopoulos was explaining the Steiner matter, Clinton found himself facing the scandal that in retrospect proved to be a depressingly accurate predictor of his behavior in office...
...For yet another time, Stephanopoulos's press management was nearly flawless...
...Still, he insists he had no intention of taking any action...
...He ran the White-water Response Team that met twice daily at peak times in the scandal...
...He insisted he never kept a diary or notes about his work, and when he signed a nearly $3-million contract to write his memoirs, he told reporters he would have to rely on a "very good memory" to reconstruct his time in the White House...
...After that, Clinton was obsessed with his own re-election, and Stephanopoulos was obsessed with his falling fortunes as the president relied increasingly on his brilliant political soul-mate, Dick Morris...
...Hoping to contain the story, Stephanopoulos went to Clinton to find out the truth...
...And that it was only when the Lewinsky story became public that he realized Bill Clinton was lying all along...
...It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure...
...Gimmick sits...
...Few news organizations made much of the tapes, and most that did described them as "alleged tapes...
...But then Stephanopoulos, who had been telling reporters that Clinton wasn't even in the hotel when Jones said he was, found out that Clinton had indeed been there...
...But the scars were accumulating on the president...
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...He was so worried about testifying that he couldn't sleep for two nights beforehand, but he felt a great wave of relief the moment he came face-to-face with the grand jurors...
...His one-reporter-at-a-time campaign was working until the Star pub-44 Seeing Clinton lie only made Stephanopoulos believe him more—a 'true true believer.' ,7 lished another Flowers story—"They Made Love All Over Her Apai latent" and Stephanopoulos himself began to wonder whether Clinton was telling the truth...
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...His belief would soon be tested again when some reporters raised old questions about Clinton's draft history...
...for Stephanopoulos, the only answer was to strike back at Clinton's enemies...
...There are long verbatim transcripts ("real, not reconstructed," Stephanopoulos claims) of conversations he had with the president, White House officials, members of Congress, and top military brass...
...There was still more bad news to come...
...In late May 1994, Clinton was worried about a special election to fill the House seat left open by the death of Representative William Natcher...
...The press was still queasy about sex stories," he writes, "especially with Hillary defending her husband...
...He took Air Force One all over the country to stump for Democrats, with disastrous results...
...But normal people seldom get out of bed on Sunday morning in search of self-affirmation or warm huggies...
...What should he do...
...Send letter or this coupon with check payable to NEW OXFORD REVIEW...
...Stephanopoulos doesn't quite see it that way...
...It was Gennifer Flowers all over again...
...Instead, he concentrated on preparing for Clinton's Super Bowl Sunday appearance on "6o Minutes...
...And, finally, he did it because the Republicans were so, so awful...
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...Didn't Stephanopoulos say he didn't make notes...
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...What they didn't know was that the Troopergate story would give birth to the lawsuit that would ultimately lead to Clinton's impeachment...
...Stephanopoulos was now a big-league network commentator and couldn't afford to look foolish like Paul Begala and his old White House colleagues who were blindly defending the president...
...Never said a word...
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...There are "tick-tock" chronologies of crises in the Oval Office...
...When the time came to write a book, Stephanopoulos turned to the tapes...
...He had to get back on the campaign trail, he told Stephanopoulos, or the GOP would gain an advantage...
...Clinton] lied," he thought to himself...
...In his hip homilies Fr...
...The story reached a boiling point with the publication of the candidate's famous letter to Colonel Eugene Holmes in which Clinton outlined his opposition to the war and his intention to avoid the draft...
...Statues of the saints are locked in the basement, replaced by balloons, banners with greeting-card sentiments, and other dime-store decorations...
...White House diary' has become an oxymoron," Clinton defender Ann Lewis told the Washington Post...
...The Republicans, they believed more strongly than ever, had to be stopped...
...Gimmick's stunts and antics over the past three decades...
...I served as Clinton's character witness...
...House investigators would later gather information that cast doubt on Stephanopoulos's story...
...They embraced in a three-way hug and talked44 began to think that doing the dirty work was not only necessary but noble.' about the coming move to the White House...
...Stephanopoulos's job was to run the "War Room," the rapid-response headquarters that coordinated the campaign's positions on issues of policy and scandal...
...Frustrated, Isikoff left the paper for Newsweek...
...He pointed to [Cliff] Jackson's involvement and his advertisement to raise money for the "Troopergate Whistleblower Fund...
...Doubt was cast...
...wrote in his diary about a conversation with Stephanopoulos in which the two discussed the Resolution Trust Corporation's decision to hire Republican Jay Stephens to investigate Madison Guaranty...
...In the White House, Stephanopoulos occasionally became part of the scandal itself...
...In December 1993, TAS and the Los Angeles Times published accounts of Clinton's use of Arkansas state troopers to arrange sexual liaisons, and also of his attempts to offer them jobs for their silence...
...I began to think that doing the dirty work was not only necessary but noble," he writes, "a landmark on the road to greater good...
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...Was his memory that good...
...Stephanopoulos nearly writhed in pain...
...Because he was, in Niebuhr's words, "doubly sure...
...But other character questions were not so easily disposed of, and Stephanopoulos devotes much thought to the two scandals that had the potential to sink Clinton's candidacy: his affair with Gennifer Flowers and his avoidance of the draft...
...It could get subpoenaed...
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...Once Clinton wassafely re-elected, Stephanopoulos, exhausted and on anti-depressants, left the White House...
...It's Nazi time out there," the president said...
...He quotes the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt...
...It was too much for a young staffer to bear: "You guys can relive Woodstock some other time," he thought to himself...
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...they might take it upon themselves to look more closely at Clinton's history...
...Sometimes that was easy...
...How can this be...
...Of course, what else could he do...
...Persuaded George that firing him would be incredibly stupid and improper...
...he seemed determined to keep looking into the story...
...Stephanopoulos told reporters he had been angry the day he talked to Steiner and was just "blowing off steam" about the Stephens decision...
...The morning the Monica Lewinsky story first appeared on the Internet, Stephanopoulos reverted almost instinctively to old form...
...Putting aside his own suspicions that the tapes were authentic, he told reporters they were fake (even though Clinton found it necessary toapologize for a recorded slur to New York Governor Mario Cuomo...
...it turned out he had actually gotten an induction notice...
...Clinton —and Stephanopoulos —survived...
...The next day, Flowers struck back, making public audio tapes of her recent conversations with the governor...
...Stephanopoulos developed more sympathy for the rights of the accused when he found himself under investigation in the Whitewater matter...
...Sorry, Stephanopoulos answered, I don't have any...
...Since some of the Clintons' friends stood to benefit from the firings, reporters might get the (correct) impression that the purgewas an act of petty corruption made exponentially worse by an abuse of the FBI...
...As Stephanopoulos had hoped, the Post delayed the story, finally running an abbreviated version several months later...
...It was about to be released when Stephanopoulos had an off-the-record conversation with Ann Devroy, the Washington Post reporter who covered the White House until her death in 1997...
...66 travel office staff, he swore he never kept a diary or journal...
...He believed the accusations...
...We must clap, clap, clap for the band, the liturgical dancers, the vaudevillians, the pantomimist, and the other clownish entertainers...
...People will think you're scum," Stephanopoulos told the Perotista while a documentary film crew recorded the conversation—and that was that...
...The coverage," he recalls with satisfaction, "was relatively scanty and slanted our way...
...Stephanopoulos writes that he "didn't remember using those words" when he suggested getting rid of Stephens, "but it wasn't a wild inference given how angrily I had questioned Josh about how Stephens had been selected...
...But there was still the press to contend with...
...Steiner wrote that he found it "amazing when George then suggested to me that we needed to find a way to get rid of [Stephens...
...The American Spectator's journalistic standards are on a par with the National Enquirer's," Stephanopoulos told a reporter some months later...
...The tapes, Stephanopoulos writes, were "scratchy but apparently authentic...
...But Stephanopoulos says that instead it actually cemented his faith in Bill Clinton...
...The story went away—for a while...
...Indeed, church attendance among Catholics has dropped from 70%, just before the clowns were sent in 30 or so years ago, to 25% today...
...His abrupt shift to fast-talking, lawyerly, hyperexplanation mode convinced me something was up," Stephanopoulos writes...
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...When Paula Jones—whose first name had been mentioned in TAS—accused the president of sexual harassment, Stephanopoulos wasn't particularly worried...
...But he pushed on in Clinton's service...
...I felt protected," he writes, "drawn into the select circle of those who bore a scar for the sake of the cause...
...And because no matter how much Clinton might be lying, no matter what his character problems might portend, Stephanopoulos believed the campaign was his best chance to change the world for the better...
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...Stephanopoulos then made calls to the top executives of ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to steer them away from the story...
...many reporters joined the White House in condemning the troopers and TAS...
...Come on, George...
...In the campaign, Stephanopoulos found himself defusing scandals from Clinton's past...
...Stephanopoulos asked...
...And today, two out of three Catholics don't believe in the Real Presence — why would they, given Fr...
...70 May 1999 • The American Spectator the original Gennifer Flowers circus—minus the incriminating tapes...
...And now the kneelers are being ripped out and the crucifix taken down — after all, they're hardly conducive to the three-ring festivities...
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...The situation improved more than Stephanopoulos could have hoped when Clinton out-maneuvered Newt Gingrich in the government shutdown of late 1995...
...Not that it matters any more...
...So Stephanopoulos made an appointment to talk to Isikoff's boss, Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie...
...Most had probably voted for Clinton...
...It wasn't...
...The majority were black women," he writes...
...while I swore to reporters her story was false...
...Then he released a brief comment...
...Still, Stephanopoulos was not one to ignore a threat...
...We don't just chronicle liturgical horror stories, we cover the full range of issues of concern to papal Catholics...
...And then he found out that trooper Danny Ferguson had indeed introduced Jones to Clinton, as Jones had said...
...I forgot about it," was all the candidate said when Stephanopoulos confronted him...
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...As press strategies go, it was cheap, easy, and effective...
...Don't start defending the travel office," he told NBC's Andrea Mitchell...
...There was the time a Ross Perot supporter threatened to bring up the old chestnut about Clinton having fathered an illegitimate child...
...Flowers first came into the public eye in the weeks before the New Hampshire primary, when the Star tabloid published a story about a former Arkansas state employee who was trying to sell a list of five women with whom Clinton had supposedly been involved...
...When Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske obtained the diary, Stephanopoulos knew he was going to have to explain himself...
...None of the above...
...Blumenthal's was a common sentiment among those in the president's inner circle...
...Confront the candidate and get the truth...
...The letter's a fake," Stephanopoulos thought to himself, sure that Clinton's enemies were at it again...
...When my [ABC] colleague Bill Kristol aired the intern rumor," Stephanopoulos writes, "I jumped down his throat and accused him of bottom-feeding from Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge...
...Gimmick...
...It was a difficult taping, but when it was all over, Stephanopoulos was pleased...
...George Stephanopoulos became a "true true believer...
...Does Stephanopoulos really expect us to believe that after turning common sense on its head in the Gennifer Flowers matter, he eagerly did it again in the draft controversy, and again in Troopergate, and again in Paula Jones...
...The Clintons told Stephanopoulos they hadn't yet decided what job he would have, but they wanted him to "keep on doing what you did in the campaign...
...That's just what happened, although there was one slight change...
...He signed his big book contract and took jobs at ABC and Columbia University...
...During the reception of Communion, we have no chance to pray because we're forced to sing another one of those show-tune ditties...
...Stephanopoulos tried not to think about it...
...I tried to pick off the journalists one by one to explain why the Star story was not only irrelevant but wrong—and part of a plot," he writes...
...The conversation gave Stephanopoulos a "sickening sense of deja vu...
...Then a few days later, when the Washington Post ran the story, Stephanopoulos finally exorcised the ghost of Reinhold Niebuhr...
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...He was dumbstruck...
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...Starr's inquiry, she said, "chills your candor...
...So he defended Clinton's lies —for every poor child who woke up without enough to eat, for every black family denied a fair chance at a job and a place to live, for every elderly widow who couldn't afford medical insurance...
...Finally, there was the problem of Michael Isikoff, the Washington Post reporter who was looking into the story...
...The seat appeared safely Democratic, but Clinton worked himself into a lather over the possibility of losing it...
...Indeed, the once-sacred sanctuary has really become a stage...
...How come he let me hang out there...
...As it turned out, his time in the witness chair wasn't too bad...
...Clinton attempted to put the story to rest in a December 1991 interview with the Washington Post by repeating his usual assertion that he never tried to avoid service in Vietnam...
...Things were looking up —until January of 1998...
...He privately told reporters they were criminals and then spread word that the FBI was investigating...
...they often complained that there were so many investigators targeting the White House—Senate committees, House committees, federal regulators, and of course Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr—that it would be crazy to risk a subpoena by keeping a detailed record of one's thoughts and deeds...
...But there was no relief in the White House...
...Gimmick back to the circus...
...All Too Human would undergo a re-write in light of the devastating fact that Clinton had lied to the American people...
...To Stephanopoulos's relief, and perhaps amazement, the press bought the story...
...But Isikoff wasn't buying it...
...Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this book is that Stephanopoulos apparently expects us to believe that...
...Why couldn't they figure out that when Stephanopoulos swore he kept no diary and made no notes, he was actually writing "observations" and taping "conversations...
...He had already checked the story out...
...At that point Stephanopoulos knew the situation was "messier than I first hoped...
...Stephanopoulos immediately killed the statement, and after a period of intense media interest, the story began to fade...
...How come Clinton didn't tell us...
...Whatever Stephanopoulos knew, he did not hesitate to throw accusations at the suddenly unemployed staff...
...During the New York primary campaign in April, the Associated Press got hold of Clinton's draft papers...
...It's pulp fiction...
...How stupid all those investigators must feel...
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...Stephanopoulos writes that he now regrets his part in calling in the FBI...
...He pooh-poohs Catholic doctrines, and panders with stage props hidden behind the altar and unfunny jokes we feel compelled to laugh at...
...Trash...
...Assured of my own good intentions," he writes, "I was blind to how the [FBI] meeting looked to the press...
...As for the notes, Stephanopoulos explains that he began writing on the advice of conservative columnist William Safire, who "encouraged me to jot down personal observations when I could," which was apparently quite often...
...On about 4,,C a dozen weekend afternoons," Stephanopoulos writes, "I had a series of conversations" with Alterman, who "taped and stored these talks to create a historical record...
...We had given it our best shot," he recalls thinking as he flew back to Little Rock, "and everything was out in the open now...
...Jones's accusation, he told reporters, was a "cheap political fund-raising trick...
...By the time he writes his final chapter, on his disillusionment in the wake of the Lewin-sky scandal, the dishonesty of All Too Human is simply overwhelming...
...Whether we have the real story is another question altogether...
...As it turns out, no—but there's a nicely Clintonian explanation...
...It was obviously political, he argued...
...T he first quarter of All Too Human is devoted to the 1992 presidential race...
...But judging from his brief discussion of the issue—he devotes just one page to the scandal—it seems the real problem was that the whole thing looked so bad...
...But Stephanopoulos had a hunch he could convince most reporters to stay away from the story...
...But wait...
...The evidence was overwhelming...
...But then Hillary Clinton herself authenticated the letter The American Spectator • May 1999 67 and, as Stephanopoulos remembered, "seemed moved by it— misted by a nostalgic memory of the Bill Clinton she fell in love with across the stacks at the Yale Law Library...
...In May 1993, White House officials, acting at the behest of the first lady, fired all seven members of the White House travel office staff...
...He asked Clinton about it...
...Catholics alienated by freakish Masses often jump ship for an Evangelical church — or just stay in bed if they want warmth and self-cuddling...
...James [Carville] and I speculated on exactly what that something might have been: a blow job in a car ten years ago...
...Stephanopoulos says he found the explanation "hard to swallow...
...He wasn't sure that would be enough to answer the questions, so the White House damage control team prepared a statement professing "full 68 May 1999 • The American Spectator Big-Tent Catholicism In many Catholic parishes today, the sense of the sacred has largely been banished...
...He told Downie he believed Clinton's denial and stressed that whatever the truth, the episode wasn't relevant to Clinton's performance in office...
...We've wound up with a Big-Tent Catholicism that's "inclusive" of everyone and anyone, regardless of "lifestyle" or belief, and where Communion primarily occurs at the (SMILE NOW...
...Stephanopoulos writes, echoing the anguish he felt when Clinton lied to him about Gennifer Flowers...
...One might expect an episode like that would cause even the most loyal campaign consultant to view his candidate with a certain skepticism...
...New York Newsday referred to Clinton's voice as "the male voice that Flowers says is Clinton's...
...For Stephanopoulos and Clinton, the Jones case appears to have intensified their already consuming hatred of those who questioned the president's character...
...This must have been what they were all going through in 1969," Begala told Stephanopoulos, "while you and I were asking if we could stay up late to watch Mod Squad...
...the move, he says, "compounded our problems...
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...And there are passages from detailed contemporaneous notes that Stephanopoulos apparently wrote to keep record of critical days...
...I didn't want our enemies to win," Stephanopoulos recalls...
...You'll be embarrassed...
...Stephanopoulos tried to shoo him away, too, as Isikoff recalls in his new book, Uncovering Clinton: "You're not really going to write a story about this...
...The bells, incense, votive candles, and Communion rail are gone...
...We've got to hit them back...
...Jones was widely dismissed as44 'It's Nazi time out there,' Clinton said of the GOP 'We've got to hit them back.' a dumb bimbo who was being used as a pawn by the president's enemies...
...It was an issue that had arisen many times in Arkansas...
...Both Bill and Hillary Clinton offered their full approval, and Stephanopoulos sensed a new prestige in the Clintons' world...
...George Stephanopoulos, who for four years was at the center of decision-making in the Clinton White House, shared the first lady's fear...
...B y the fall of 1994, nothing could keep Clinton away from the midterm campaign...
...Heavens no...
...One might think that such publicitywould have hurt Stephanopoulos with his boss, but apparently the opposite was the case...
...Gimmick's Throne...
...To an Associated Press reporter he argued simply, "You can't put this crap on the wire...
...But at least we now have what all those subpoenas couldn't unearth: George Stephanopoulos's memories of life with Bill Clinton...
...The only people he forgets to mention are the travel office staffers themselves, who ended up fighting off the FBI, the IRS, and the Justice Department...
...Don't do that, George," she told him...
...Clinton called the story "bogus" and "trash," and Stephanopoulos jumped into action...
...Losing the House and Senate left Clinton and Stephanopoulos stunned, but the new Republican congressional leadership made blunders of its own and let Clinton back in the game...
...He wrote the talking points from which Clinton admitted "causing pain" in his marriage...
...So we no longer genuflect to the Throne of the reserved Sacrament but to Fr...
...Formerly at the center of the sanctuary, it's been replaced by the Presider's Chair, where Fr...
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