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...officials insist they were as shocked as anyone else when the White House on May 19 fired the entire seven-person travel-office staff without any proof or even formal accusation of wrongdoing. The White House got the FBI to confirm that it was investigating the travel office, as official guidelines permit if another agency or "credible person" first breaks the news. But on Friday, May 21, as reporters' questions became far more persistent, John Collingwood, head of the FBI press office, was summoned from lunch to an impromptu meeting at the White House. With communications director George Stephanopoulos, press...
Despite opposition from conservatives, the Senate voted to confirm Roberta Achtenberg to head the fair-housing office in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She's the first open lesbian ever appointed to such a high federal post...
...there is little evidence that Clinton will go along with such steps. If he fails to adjust quickly, he will confirm the widespread belief that the biggest problem with the Clinton presidency is Clinton himself. Unless he can, as he likes to say, make change his friend, he is in for a decidedly unfriendly 3 1/2 years...
Soros the Speculator was not saying, but in a sense it didn't matter. The mere fact that he was buying into gold was enough to cause a stampede. When unexpected reports of inflation caused the price to rise again last week, it just seemed to confirm his legendary nose for the market. After all, this was the man who led the raid on the Bank of England during last September's European currency crisis, a robber baron, as some called him, who emerged with profits estimated at $2 billion by selling sterling short...
Sources said Johnson had spoken with Marshall Sunday about his illness. In an interview on Tuesday, Marshall said she often met with the chief, but she would not confirm or deny whether she had spoken with Johnson on Sunday...