Who'S Who
WHO'S WHO Here is a partial list of the Hollywoodites who have visited the White House since Bill and Hillary Clinton arrived: Billy Crystal, Sally Field, Judy Collins, Christine Lahri, Richard...
...and that Clinton completely controlled a $19,000 "public relations" fund but didn't report it as income as the law required...
...She is a former speech-writer for Dan Quayle...
...WHO'S WHO Here is a partial list of the Hollywoodites who have visited the White House since Bill and Hillary Clinton arrived: Billy Crystal, Sally Field, Judy Collins, Christine Lahri, Richard Dreyfuss, Bar-bra Streisand, Jack Nicholson, Sharon Stone, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Lindsey Wagner, John Ritter, Christopher Reeve, and Sam Waterston...
...The General never corrected the record...
...Schwarzkopf said we were "really outnumbered two-to-one" at the time the ground war began, but postwar Army estimates put Iraqi strength at roughly 300,000, and the House committee puts the figure at 183,000...
...While George Stephanopoulos took the fall, the real blame, observers say, may lie with David Dreyer, the deputy in charge of message, an area the Clinton presidency has still not mastered____ The good news is that a hot new White House speechwriter has emerged: Jeremy Rosner, who works for the National Security Council...
...His telephone rings...
...It seems Dee Dee Myers and George Stephanopoulos were reluctant to parcel out tidbits of the Clintons' backstage life—like what the president was munching on when he ordered the airstrike on Baghdad...
...But guess who's usually in the starring role...
...All is still apparently not well in the White House's troubled speech and communications shop...
...that it cost Arkansas $750,000 a year to feed and care for its governor...
...According to a forthcoming book by Rick Atkinson, within minutes after a Norman Schwarzkopf Gulf War briefing in which the General showed the press an Air Force film that he said depicted the destruction of seven Iraqi Scud missiles, he was told that the CIA believed they were oil tanker trucks, not Scuds...
...The Allies, meanwhile, had a total of 700,000 troops...
...One White House problem David Gergen has already solved is what Washington reporters were calling "the anecdote crisis...
...John Dean and John Mitchell are among the most prominent victims of this syndrome____ While Bob Kerrey strutted and fretted in the halls outside the budget conference committee, observers say the real heroes were Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Dick Gephardt, both of whom cut the deals and rode herd on distracted—and distracting—colleagues to get Clinton's budget through...
...There are many other similar anecdotes, all of them useful in a vague way to repairing Bill Clinton's relations with a hungry press...
...Gergen...
...She also alleges that the Clintons have put Chelsea's sitter on the White House payroll...
...The credentials of the Spectator author, Lisa Schiffren, may not, it should be noted, strike some of our readers as persuasive...
...In 1989, under legislative pressure, Clinton began paying taxes on the money...
...But the stories are more directly flattering to someone else...
...In fact, a House Armed Services committee report released after we read Atkinson's book says "a postwar review of photographs cannot produce even a single confirmed kill of a Scud missile...
...People who work in the White House counsel office, and sometimes even the attorney general, lawyers say, can make the error of thinking of themselves as the president's lawyer when in theory they are supposed to be representing the public interest, which is not always the same as the president's...
...Rosner wrote Clinton's acclaimed speech at Waseda University in Tokyo and his foreign policy speech at American University____ Hillary Rodham Clinton, during her years in the Arkansas governor's mansion, donated clothing to Goodwill and the Salvation Army, taking tax deductions, according to the August issue of The American Spectator, ranging from $1,000 to $2,300 each—including $3 for each of Bill Clinton's used undershirts and $1 each for the governor's and Chelsea's used underpants...
...It's David Gergen, who asks, "Would it help if we talked...
...Another significant departure from reality may have occurred when the General continued to assert that Iraq had 623,000 soldiers in the Kuwaiti theater...
...Susan Threadgill September 1993/The Washington Monthly 21 LICENSED TO UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED...
...In one paper, we read about Bob Kerrey's agonies over the budget...
...After a meal with Gergen, Kerrey sees the light...
...With Gergen on the scene, those stories are now flowing...
...And despite the gathering clouds of scandal, Dan Rostentowski also rose to the occasion, coming in third in terms of effectiveness to Moynihan and Gephardt...
...One fact about Vince Foster that may have added to his worries was his continuing work for the Clintons on personal matters while he was being paid by the government to serve as deputy White House counsel...
Vol. 25 • September 1993 • No. 9
