Word: barbarae
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...sources of Mrs. Clinton's problems may be herself. In her 20/20 interview last week with Barbara Walters, the First Lady's answers were both forthright and unsatisfying. Did she demand the firing of the White House travel staff? Chief of staff Mack McLarty "took responsibility for the decision," she said. "I did not tell him to do anything." But while McLarty may have taken responsibility, it was administrative aide David Watkins who did the firings. And in the 1993 memo disclosed by the White House two weeks ago, Watkins wrote that he did it at her "insistence...
...White House acknowledged last week, there had been a collaborator. Barbara Feinman, a veteran book doctor, was hired by publisher Simon & Schuster to help organize the book and draft several chapters. Mrs. Clinton liked the initial chapters, say sources on Feinman's side. As the work progressed, Feinman stayed overnight at the White House and even accompanied the First Family to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last summer. In October, according to Feinman's side, Mrs. Clinton called the writer to say the work was fine. But after Feinman returned from a trip to Italy, the publisher told her the First Lady...
AUSTIN: Finally succumbing to the multiple sclerosis which had crippled her for the last several years, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan died on Wednesday. She was 59. The daughter of a Baptist minister, Jordan attained national prominence for her ringing oratory during the Watergate hearings in 1974 and a keynote address that galvanized the 1976 Democratic National Convention. "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total," she declared during one of the House Judiciary Committee hearings on whether to impeach Richard Nixon. "She had a voice that sounded like the voice of the Constitution itself," recalls...
...Reported by Staci D. Kramer/St. Louis and Barbara Rudolph/Murray Hill
...BARBARA EHRENREICH'S MASTERLY SUMmary of Princess Di's plight [ESSAY, Dec. 18] and Ehrenreich's premise that the "only honest description of [Diana's] occupation would have to be 'hired womb'" was right on the mark. I would add that Di was no ordinary broodmare, since her progeny will sit on England's throne as long as it endures. As such a benefactor, she is certainly entitled to enormous perks in the form of a comfortable life, cashmere included. JACK K. KOOK Newton, New Jersey...