Who's Who
Threadgill, Susan
Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Two of the more curious attackers of Bill Clinton’s alleged adultery and lying were George Will and Joe Klein. Klein, you will recall, repeatedly lied about...
...To back up his 70 in-house lawyers, he has retained not just one but two of the nation’s most prestigious firms, Sullivan and Cromwell of New York and Covington and Burling of Washington...
...David Pryor, riding in coach, spotted Sen...
...The significance of the poll, insiders tell us, is that these are the red-meat conservatives who dominate GOP caucuses and primaries...
...David Keene, the CPAC (chairman, told Ralph Hallow of The Washington Times that the results, which more than doubled the 11 percent Forbes got at last year’s conference, showed that Forbes “has worked the hardest and spent the most to build a following among economic and social conservatives.~’ When Bill Clinton’s friendship with Vernon Jordan first became news a few years ago, this column noted that they certainly had one interest in common...
...All of which reminds us of a recent taxpayer-financed junket led by Sen...
...Joe McCarthy without any apology for his own role...
...Who's Who BY SUSAN THREADGILL Two of the more curious attackers of Bill Clinton’s alleged adultery and lying were George Will and Joe Klein...
...Curiously enough, before Joel Klein filed his landmark case against Microsoft, he had been suspected of being too soft on big business...
...Now comes Gloria Borger with a report on just how far some of the fellows are willing to go to get Reed: “Both Quayle and Forbes have signed on to stump for some of Reed’s congressional clients...
...But did you know that not only did Goldberg urge Tripp to do the taping and introduce her to Newmeek’s Michael Isikoff, she even suggested the messenger service, owned by Goldberg’s older brother, that delivered Lewinsky‘s packages and then turned over the delivery records to Goldberg...
...David Boren luxuriating in first class...
...Now that Stephanopolous has A straw poll was taken at the 25th annual Conservative Political Action Conference held recently in Arlington, Va...
...You’ve probably learned by now that Lucianne Goldberg, the literary agent who suggested that LindaTripp tape Monica Lewinsky’s acocunt of her extracurricular activities in the Oval Office, was paid $1,000 a week by Richard Nixon’s forces to spy on George McGovern during the 1972 campaign...
...To back up the attorneys, Microsoft has a Washington lobbying team headed by Jack Krumholtz and has enlisted the service of two highly influential former congressmen, Republican Vin Weber and Democrat Tom Downey...
...A recent article in Nezomeek was more explicit: “Asked at a party earlier this year what it was he and Clinton talk about on the golf course, Jordan slyly replied: ‘We talk pu-y.’”Nmmeek is no doubt trying to be delicate, but those who are mystified should understand that two letters are missing, not one...
...The highlight of the trip, wrote Eric Schmitt of The New York Times, was “a twonight stay at Fantasy Island, a luxurious resort in Honduras known for its world-class scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, tennis, and white sandy beaches...
...Thoughts of hypocrisy naturally lead to George Stephanopolous...
...Pryor wrote a note signed “an indignant constituent” and had a flight attendant carry it to his colleague...
...At Klein’s confirmation hearing, Sen...
...Think about it: campaigning to curry favor with a political consultant!’ Does ‘Who’s Who,’ get it first...
...I remember her as a very flashy blonde who wore short skirts, tight tops, and made goo-goo eyes at all the guys,” Bess Abell, who was Lady Bird Johnson’s top aide, told Knight Ridder’s Frank Greve and Ron Hutcheson...
...Klein, you will recall, repeatedly lied about his authorship of Primary Colors and indignantly attacked those who said he lied...
...You bet it does...
...Trent Lott...
...One of AI Kamen’s sources caught Sen...
...It seems he just might be...
...From Jamie Rubin’s closeness to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - wonder if it will be a tad diminished by his attention to bride-to-be Christiane Amanpour...
...We’ve noted that practically all the GOP presidential hopefuls are trying to hire Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition...
...whch we reported in September, to the crucial part of the Gennifer Flowers tape where Bill Clinton advised, “I just think that if everybody’s on record denying it you’ve got no problem . . . @If everybody kind of hangs tough, theyke not going to do anything and if they ever ask if you7ve talked to me about it you can say no!’ That item appeared in the March 1992 ‘W’~O~S Who:’ Speahg of Steve Forbes, a friend swears he heard him say this in a recent speech: “But also too we’re entering a new economic era as well!’ If you wonder why Ralph Reed decided to go into campaign consulting, Dick Morris made $1.5 million from the 1996 Clinton campaign, even though he left in August after his toe-job at the Hotel Jefferson had been revealed...
...It said: “I’m shocked to realize that you7ve either used taxpayers’ funds or used special influence to sit in first class while those of us who work to pay your salary ride in the rear!’ Pryor finally confessed to authorship when they disembarked...
...The episode reminded one of our colleagues of a time when Sen...
...Robert Squier‘s firm, Squier Knapp Ochs, which served throughout the campaign, took in $2.5 million, according to The Warhington Post’s John F. Harris...
...A few years ago, Will’s first wife evicted him, throwing his belongings on the street in front of their home, after she learned that he was involved with another woman...
...become a Clinton tsk-tsker on ‘W3C News,” Kaus observes, “it’s as if Roy Cohn went on television in the mid-1950s to soberly rue the damage wreaked by Sen...
...Is Bill Gates worried about the antitrust suit that the Department of Justice’s Joel I. Klein has brought against Microsoft...
...The result: Steve Forbes came out ahead with 23 percent, trailed by George W. Bush with 10...
...Ernest Hollings warned “we’ve got an antitrust fellow here who rolls over and plays dead...
...As Boren read it, he blanched...
...Mickey Kaus recently noted in Slate that in the 1992 campaign documentary, “The War Room,” Stephanopolous “bullied and cajoled” a phone caller who proposed to release a list of Clinton paramours: ‘You would be laughed at . . . I guaranree that if you do this you will never work in Democratic politics again . . . nobody d believe and people will dunk you’re scum...
...Frank Lautenberg pressuring flight attendants to move him into first class...
Vol. 30 • March 1998 • No. 3
