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What do you get when you mix an old Clinton chum with former Republican Secretary of State James Baker and a onetime guitarist for the band that made In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida famous? Answer: a particularly screwball episode from the place that has fostered quite a few--the election-year White House...
...congressional investigators suspect was used to track political benefactors. She attended 18 of the now famous White House coffees for big givers. Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr is expected to have a few questions about a Los Angeles Times report that she made frequent prison visits to her old school chum Webster Hubbell, who has since announced that he will no longer cooperate with Starr's investigation. And for the darkest conspiracy theorists, there is this fact to chew on: Scott dropped by deputy counsel Vince Foster's office to offer her own friendly counsel the day before he committed suicide...
...backed by a powerful supporting cast: Ruth Warrick as the prize society wife his fortune buys him; Dorothy Comingore as the heart-and-hair-of-gold lounge singer he wants instead; Joseph Cotten as his intellectual school chum dogging him through life like a nagging conscience; and Agnes Moorehead as the mother whose rejection forms the foundation of the empire he builds...
...committeeman appears unthreatening to turf-conscious White House officials; Mike Synar -- the defeated Oklahoma Congressman is aggressive, but can he raise money?; Kathleen Brown -- a proven fund raiser, but California Democrats don't want to reward her for losing their shot at the statehouse; Mack McLarty -- Clinton's kindergarten chum was too nice for the White House. Would the cutthroat D.N.C. be a better...
Roger Altman probably knew his days were numbered when Bill Clinton issued a tepid, one-sentence endorsement of his college chum and campaign fund raiser. In a statement released by Treasury chief Lloyd Bentsen last Monday, Clinton said, "I believe that Roger Altman has been an excellent Deputy Treasury Secretary, and we want him to continue in that capacity." In Washington, where what isn't said is often more important than what is, those less than bracing words of support could have another translation: "Pack your bags...