Word: burtons
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...Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who plays foil to House Government Reform Committee Chairman and Clinton Administration Inquisitor Dan Burton, R- Ind., has asked Burton several times if he'll spearhead an investigation into alleged Republican wrongdoing - specifically, the situation of senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, who met March 12 with Intel's chief executive and two of its lobbyists even as he still held more than $100,000 in company stock. Rove has denied any impropriety, with White House officials saying that the conversation was about how the company could support the president's policies, not about a pending...
...spokesman for Burton said Wednesday that no investigation or hearings are planned. And the White House is refusing, for the most part, to cooperate with a General Accounting Office investigation, requested by Democrats, of the operations of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. In fact, much tongue-clucking has ensued over at the White House. "We understand that there have been past, partisan battles over investigations, but these were battles and investigations this president and this administration were not involved in - this president was off in Texas being governor," Bush aide Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post...
...that belies two facts. One, the Bush Administration has actually rewarded some of those who doggedly pursued alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton crew with prominent administration jobs. And two, Burton himself is still investigating Clinton-connected events, six months after the man himself rode out of town...
...including James Coburn, Walter Matthau, and Charles Aznavour) -- enjoy the "charity" offered by Southern and Hoffenberg's nymphette, while scripter Buck Henry (dare this hardcore Southern fan say it) actually improves upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand...
...Plants says Driskell's term was marred by the scandals that surrounded her election, including the impeachment of her running mate John A. Burton...