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Stephanopoulos confirms that the conversation occurred but says he only "suggested as a courtesy that ((Altman)) write a letter to the President explaining his decision. I don't remember anything else about that conversation." Other sources familiar with the call offer more elaborate accounts. Says one: "As best we can figure it, it was an extremely heated conversation. It seems to have gone right from acknowledging the recusal to ignoring it, in that Altman was almost immediately asked to help think of a way to fire Stephens...
...Altman's own version, as reported by sources close to Fiske, is that either Stephanopoulos or Ickes asked, "What about Jay Stephens? Can anything be done about it, or are we stuck with this?" Altman reportedly cut off the conversation "quite quickly," telling his callers he "absolutely would not" be a party to sacking Stephens. According to this version, Altman then reported the substance of the conversation to Steiner, adding, "These guys are nuts...
...productive first year of a presidency last year of anyone in a generation." True, Clinton is not yet directly involved -- and may never be. One source familiar with Fiske's work does speculate: "What really causes us to wonder is whether Stephanopoulos would have pursued the Stephens matter beyond Altman's firm 'No' if he wasn't following the President's orders." But proving any presidential involvement would be most difficult...
Long before Fiske is ready to make any legal moves, though, the Stephanopoulos-Ickes-Altman-Stephens story will make a mighty stick Republicans will use to whack the White House. And more questions will be asked during the (probably separate) Senate and House investigations that Senate Republican leader Bob Dole predicted might get under way around May 1. That the House will match the Senate in conducting such hearings became likely -- though not quite certain -- last week, in somewhat roundabout fashion. Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, abruptly canceled a hearing into RTC matters last Thursday at which...
...next year his salary as Governor was $33,750. In response to Leach's charges about the RTC investigation, Clinton remarked that "all the appointees of the RTC were hired under previous Republican Administrations." That was not entirely accurate; two of Breslaw's superiors were appointed last December by Altman, who is an old associate of the President...