LUGAR'S SECRET ALLIANCE WITH THEWHITEHOUSE
Lugar's Secret Alliance with the White House Richard Lugar's pique with Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is no secret. But now he wants to circumvent not just Helms...
...Note_ In our August 4 issue, we reported that congressman Jim Leach saw private investigator Jack Palladino near Mr...
...Lugar also proposes that he lead one or two fact-finding trips to NATO headquarters for wavering senators...
...Leach's home or that he ever investigated Mr...
...Don't count on Helms, or Albright, to lead the enlargement campaign—let's you and me run the country's foreign policy...
...Support for affirmative action became a virtual mantra for liberals, even though it contradicted a widely held American belief that no racial or ethnic group deserved a mandated advantage in the marketplace, and even though the central beneficiaries—middle-class blacks—commanded a limited political base...
...The Weekly Standard has obtained a lengthy confidential memo Lugar recently sent to Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's national security adviser, laying out a strategy for securing Senate ratification of NATO enlargement...
...Maybe...
...He can be in the middle of the night reading a book and he'll call me and say, 'Armstrong, you got to tell me, what does this mean?' He has all these questions: 'Why would God do this...
...Some conservatives will argue that the Times's Page One editors are being liberal hacks, trying to put a preposterously positive spin on what was in all respects a devastat-ingly bad day for Al Gore...
...Please fax letter and resume to: Business Manager, 202-2934901...
...Dick Morris's Spiritual Rebirth Every disgraced politico needs a guru...
...I know he's read them...
...But affirmative action has eroded liberals' moral credibility as reformers and driven away many natural allies...
...Excellent opportunity for an energetic and enthusiastic person interested in politics and publishing...
...Next, he proposes writing a series of "Dear Colleague" letters to other senators making the case for ratification...
...The two proceeded to break into prayer in the restaurant...
...Fred Thompson's campaign-finance hearings...
...Duties include answering phones, sorting mail, handling back issues, customer requests, and other support tasks...
...Leach's house one evening in 1994...
...I've got all these questions for you...
...Lugar's memo contains numerous other recommendations, including the appointment of a pro-enlargement Committee of Notables—he suggests Bob Dole, James Baker, Warren Christopher, William Perry, and Henry Kissinger—as well as White House events, White House/State Department "blast faxes," and the commissioning of public-opinion polls...
...Williams, who was making last-minute preparations for a trip to Europe, was late...
...Affirmative action didn't cause America's fundamental racial problems," it declares, "slavery and segregation did...
...He found Morris waiting for him at a table near the back...
...The Washington Times had the most sensational front page: "Nuns admit shredding evidence of event...
...The Venerable New York Times The testimony of the three Buddhist nuns—venerable Man Ho, venerable Yi Chu, and venerable Man Ya— made headlines everywhere the day after their first appearance at Sen...
...As an encore, maybe Lugar should apply for a job at the White House...
...He's so honest, he's honest to the point he makes himself look bad...
...Palladino has now written to Mr...
...He can do this by appointing the national security adviser—Berger—as the "'point' man, the 'quarterback,' of the enlargement campaign...
...It's like what Dick says, 'Once you have been moved and you've seen part of the light, you can't ignore it because you want to see the rest of the light.'" These days, says Williams, Morris doesn't even care about politics...
...and Dick Morris has . . . Armstrong Williams...
...Augustine...
...I'll tell you, that's the thing about faith...
...He's like a little kid who hungers for wisdom and knowledge," says Williams...
...How do you know when you're doing something wrong...
...According to a recent Washington Post item, Williams—tireless radio and television talk-show host and black conservative about town—is now advising Morris on spiritual matters...
...At the time we published our story, our sources were confident of this information...
...This salutary, not to say astonishing, development leaves the Nation virtually alone among prominent American opinion magazines still decrying the retreat from state-proffered racial preferences as "staggering" and "ominous...
...First, Lugar proposes convening a "Resolution of Ratification Working Group" that he, conveniently, would chair...
...For instance, he explained, "I recently turned down a person who claimed to represent Imelda Marcos...
...Indeed, says Williams, Morris may be on his way to becoming an evangelical Christian...
...The cross-town Washington Post played it almost the same: "Nuns Tell of Panic About Fund-Raiser, Documents Destroyed or Altered to Conceal Temple's Role With DNC...
...We believe that the Times's headline writers are superior journalists who always play it straight...
...The editorial in the September/October issue is admirably blunt...
...Our relationship has to do with what the meaning of life is...
...Lugar's message to Berger...
...I told them, 'You obviously take the reports of my foot fetish too seriously.'" And how seriously can reports of Morris's spiritual rebirth be taken...
...On the other hand, sometimes, seeing is believing...
...Palladino's disclaimers, and, accordingly, so do we...
...The "Dear Colleague" campaign, writes Lugar, "is likely to have more of an impact on members than the hearing process"—a process that would be chaired by none other than Lugar's nemesis, Helms...
...Hillary Clinton has Eleanor Roosevelt...
...How should I have known that it was wrong what I was doing?' " The question-and-answer period continued not long ago, when the two met at Galileo, a fashionable D.C...
...The State Department, writes Lugar, "would likely resist such an effort," but centralizing the enlargement campaign in the White House and the NSC "is the only way to succeed...
...Lewis and The Confessions by St...
...And the Wall Street Journal weighed in with "Buddhist Nuns Tell How They Funneled Money...
...Lugar suggests that President Clinton needs to demonstrate that NATO enlargement is "one of his highest priorities" through "active personal involvement...
...Take that, Madeleine...
...The Nation—and all the mainstream press...
...And when a man's honest, you can trust him...
...Richard Nixon had Rabbi Korff...
...Deadly seriously, assures Armstrong Williams...
...Mother Jones, Meritocrat An interesting newcomer to anti-affirmative-action ranks is the left-wing San Francisco bi-monthly Mother Jones (named for Mary Harris Jones, 1830-1930, scourge of child labor and, as the masthead has it, "orator, union organizer, and hellraiser...
...Thanks to Williams's guidance, Morris told the Post, "I am sort of making an effort not to work for bad people...
...To help Morris along, Williams says he passed along two books to the former Clinton adviser, "Mere Christianity by C.S...
...He's a decent guy...
...Help Wanted_ Staff Assistant/Receptionist: The Weekly Standard has an opening for a full-time entry-level administrative staff assistant...
...restaurant...
...I'm telling you, Clinton and the Republicans, he doesn't want to talk about it, he's not interested in it...
...The New York Times, on the other hand, sifted through all of the uncontroverted testimony of nuns destroying documents and came up with this front-page headline: "Nuns Say Temple Event With Gore Was Not a Fund-Raiser...
...But it didn't make the same headlines...
...Pretty impressive stuff...
...Leach...
...But now he wants to circumvent not just Helms but Madeleine Albright, secretary of state, as well...
...There's a lot there to work with...
...Armstrong," Williams says Morris enthused, "I've been sitting here reading these books...
...The Scrapbook, though, certainly does not believe in anything so crude as liberal bias...
...We base this on the historical record, which shows many similar New York Times headlines in years gone by, notably 1973's "Nixon Is Innocent: President Assures Us He Is 'Not a Crook,'" and only a decade ago, this: "Oliver North Sets the Record Straight: Patriotic Witness Tells Iran-Contra Senators He Did His Duty...
...He is becoming a man of faith," says Williams in earnest tones...
...I've got a lot of hope for him...
...Leach and to The Weekly Standard denying that he was ever near Mr...
...Leach has written back that he accepts Mr...
Vol. 3 • September 1997 • No. 1
