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What mattered, however, was the committee's decision to appoint an outside counsel to investigate whether Gingrich improperly used tax-deductible donations to fund the videotaped college course Renewing American Civilization, that he taught until earlier this year. The crowd at the Wednesday fund raiser applauded loudly when Gingrich told them the six charges had finally been resolved. As for the seventh, he said, it was a "technical'' matter. That line was echoed the next day by other members of the G.O.P. leadership. House Republican Conference chairman John Boehner of Ohio faxed around a 1994 letter by a former...
Democrats prefer to remember the 1988 investigation of House Speaker Jim Wright, whose chief accuser was Gingrich. Then too the ethics committee dismissed nearly all complaints against Wright but asked for a special counsel to investigate the remaining one. Eventually the counsel requested and was granted the authority to look wherever he felt he needed to. More harmful disclosures ensued. Wright resigned. Calculating the prospects for Gingrich, House minority whip David Bonior of Michigan assumed his most sepulchral tones: "As time passes, the gravity of the situation will...
...even if the special counsel absolves him of wrongdoing, what may be more harmful to Gingrich and his party is the fully lawful success he has had in refining the G.O.P. fund-raising machine, a triumph that has every potential to offend reform-minded voters. By drawing tens of millions of dollars to the Republican campaign chests, Gingrich and the G.O.P. congressional leadership have kept Washington awestruck for months. Republicans came to town promising to decontaminate the political process, to rid it of the corrupting pursuit of "special-interest" money, a chase in which Democrats were the undisputed frontrunners...
President Clinton reversed course and agreed to provide Senate Whitewater Committee with notes taken by former Associate White House counsel William Kennedy during a controversial 1993 Whitewater meeting. Just as quickly, the committee turned him down. The offer, faxed to the senators minutes before they voted 10-8 along Party lines to ask the full Senate to enforce a subpoena of Kennedy's notes within 24 hours, also would have allowed them to question four presidential aides who attended the meeting. But having for weeks cited attorney-client privilege, the President attached important conditions to the deal: Clinton's private...
President Clinton has refused to turn over the meeting notes of former White House counsel William Kennedy to the Senate committee investigating Whitewater, citing attorney-client privilege and raising the possibility that he might resort to executive privilege if necessary. "From a public relations standpoint, this is bad," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "because it raises the question in people's minds of why Clinton would block this if he has nothing to hide." Senate Whitewater Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato urged the President to reconsider, and said that the public has the right to know what went...