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...Pat Choate— economist, xenophobe, former adviser to Pat Buchanan, and now the Reform party’s candidate for vice president— is as oblivious as Perot to the unseemliness of his associates as the man at the top of the ticket...

...The irony is that during her time at State, Tutwiler was viewed by many reporters as aloof and inaccessible herself...

...It seems Dole did not like the way the Nixon White House and campaigns conducted business, and wanted nothing to do with Walker, a Bob Haldeman prot?g...

...What march was he talking about...

...The House leadership still refused to strip the provision...

...After rambling about the influence of “the global elite,” and the “New York bankers,” Harder got down to business, outlining for Cooper the “problem” of “Jewish greed...

...Americans “live in a public sewer...

...The author: Joe Klein...

...David McIntosh is looking into the matter...

...PRIMARY TOE-SUCKING “If we lived in an even vaguely humane public environment,” Newsweek columnist Joe Klein writes in that magazine’s September 9 issue, “Dick Morris’s private tragedy would be strictly off-limits...

...But these days “trash that appears in Martians-stole-my-baby tabloids” quickly “moves up the media food chain,” he complains...

...Choate went on to become a founder, key investor, and, until the day Perot picked him last week, chairman of a radio network, United Broadcasting...

...The impossibility of unraveling the antiSemitic and the self-help elements of such an event should be self-evident, but it wasn’t to Kemp, who did call on Farrakhan to renounce his anti-Semitism two days after the Globe piece appeared...

...11, Congress reauthorized the Orwellian-sounding “Airport Improvement Program,” which mandates that at least 10 percent of the companies operating at the nation’s airports be owned by minorities or women...

...What is surprising is the scope of the information the White House has collected on those supporters...

...On Sept...

...But that’s only because Morris chose not to deny them...

...And if “Morris is sent packing” under internal attacks led by “an unreconstructed lib” like White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, it will represent another “irresponsible left turn” by the president...

...The database, known by the acronym “WhoDB,” contains not simply the routine facts of a person’s life, such as name and address...

...GOING FOR THE CHOATE Nobody is going to accuse Ross Perot of being inconsistent in his choice of running mate...

...Arthur Coia, for instance, the head of the Laborers’ International Union of America, is described on the computer as an “Italian...

...Her February 20 diary entry, for instance...

...A recent informal survey by National Journal found Harder’s show a favorite among Perot supporters...

...BIG BROTHER ISWATCHING YOU The recent news that the White House has used public funds to maintain a computer database of political supporters comes as no surprise, given this administration’s continued inability to tell the difference between running for an office and holding one...

...And how did White House staffers come to that conclusion...

...What is it, we wonder...

...Then [Morris] told me he’s in Newsweek,” Rowlands wrote, according to the September 17 edition of the Star...

...How does the Clinton Administration determine a person’s ethnic origin...

...Klein is certainly correct that Sherry Rowlands’s Star tabloid disclosures about Morris found their way into the mainstream press awfully fast...

...Including one, it turns out, about Klein...

...Meanwhile, Dick is the one who really leaked the article...

...Reporters have been complaining for months about the inaccessibility of not only the candidate but of traveling senior staff as well...

...His love of pasta...

...26: Dick Morris is “apparently shameless,” is “no hero,” and “has done some stupid things...

...Also, did the White House compile the list of 200,000 names itself...

...Congressional investigators want to know where the names on the database came from—and particularly whether they have been loaned, illegally, to the Democratic National Committee as a fund-raising tool...

...Let the stereotyping begin...

...United Broadcasting’s uncontested star is a conspiracy-minded populist named Chuck Harder, for whose program Choate worked as the Washington correspondent...

...Something about the Dick Morris story makes Joe Klein really indignant...

...KEMP’S FARRAKHAN PROBLEM Jack Kemp told the Boston Globe that Louis Farrakhan’s “self-help message” is “wonderful” and averred he “would have liked to have been invited to speak” at the Million Man March...

...Based on the vowel at the end of Coia’s name...

...The article is about how if Clinton [gets rid of] Dick he won’t win the presidency...

...Nice going, guys...

...Last week, national chairman Don Rumsfeld was rebuffed by Bob Dole in his attempt to hire Ron Walker, who was Nixon’s chief advance man...

...GOP Rep...

...PUT A ROSE ON THE PILLOW, FELLAS As you might expect, there’s turmoil in the Dole campaign...

...And the reason Rowlands’s tale is still in the news is just as simple: All the details keep checking out...

...The olive hue of his skin...

...This is why if you go to Wall Street you’ll see it’s all Greenbergs, Sheinbergs, and so on,” Harder explained...

...Should any of this disqualify Choate as Ross Perot’s running mate...

...Given the time required to enter a name into a database of this complexity, it would have taken 12 White House employees working full-time with no vacations an entire year to complete the task...

...AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, GOP-STYLE Remember when everybody thought affirmative action was breathing its last...

...But Morris has also produced for Clinton “a political comeback that may eventually rival Harry Truman’s...

...The one where Greenpeace rep Damu Smith said the march had been called because “white men are wreaking havoc in our community...

...Several years ago, Choate wrote a book, Agents of Influence, that was so hostile to Japan and so apocalyptic in its predictions that he was fired from a longtime consulting job with TRW...

...But Dole aide Jill Hanson did convince the candidate to hire Margaret Tutwiler, the State Department spokeswoman during James A. Baker, III’s tenure, to handle press on the campaign plane...

...Depends on your perspective...

...The one where former congressman Gus Savage said that billing the march as a “Day of Atonement” meant atoning “not for our anger, but for not being angry enough [and for not] taking control of our economy in defiance of white power, in defiance of Jewish influence...

...Wow...

...He said he told the reporter the story himself and that the story needed to knock Dick so it doesn’t look like he’s behind it...

...Harder may have formed his opinions with help from Eustace Mullins, a frequent guest on Harder’s program...

...He said the story was supposed to be a leak...

...Here is the relevant Newsweek article, dated Feb...

...In so doing, it overlooked last year’s Supreme Court ruling that such programs are unconstitutional...

...Mullins is the author of The Jewish War Against the Christian World and an advocate of the theory that Auschwitz was actually an “intensive Talmudic training school...

...Last year, reporter Marc Cooper sat down with Chuck Harder for an interview...

...Charles Canady of Florida, the author of legislation to abolish such preferences, tried to build opposition but was told that no debate and no amendments would be permitted...

...The one where 40 percent of participants told the Washington Post they had negative feelings towards Jews...

...Thus a Congress that once had as a goal the abolition of federally sponsored racial and gender preferences has now reauthorized legislation containing such preferences...

...It also records such details as religion, “Relationship(s) to the First Family,” political contributions, and— this being the Clinton administration— race and ethnicity...