Word: fleischered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night two weeks ago, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer pushed back from his desk and smiled. The evening news had just ended and, once more, all the TV stories about Enron dealt with it as an accounting debacle, not a political one. Fleischer looked over at Tom Brokaw of NBC, whose cameras had been shadowing Bush all day, and said, "All right. Did you notice all the Enron stuff that everybody was asking about? Look what made it on the air--the business-scandal side...
...January, Fleischer and other senior officials assumed they had put the Enron problem behind them. They were mistaken. Over the last year, the Bush team had quietly performed a host of political sacraments for the Texas company before it began to go bust, and vice versa: there was the $1.76 million in contributions that Enron executives sent to the G.O.P. during the 2000 campaign; there was the energy policy Vice President Dick Cheney drafted in 2001 after meetings with Enron officials, portions of which seem to have sprung directly from Enron's wish list; there were ex-Enron chiefs...
...cost, low-profile way of keeping Reed on their side, off their payroll and yet far from the crowd gathering around Steve Forbes and other conservative rivals. If Rove gave Enron a nudge about Reed--"Karl Rove gave Ralph Reed a good recommendation," said press secretary Ari Fleischer, and Rove says he doesn't recall--then the young Bush campaign was at least capable of the same sort of creative accounting that ultimately brought down Enron in December: finding quiet, off-the-books ways to help itself and its friends...
...statement was released following the meeting, but even on Thursday White House spokesman Ari Fleischer appeared to endorse Israel's confining of Arafat to his Ramallah office by surrounding it with tanks. Where Washington had traditionally condemned Israeli incursions into PA-controlled territory as counterproductive, Fleischer said "the president understands the reason that Israel has taken the action that it takes, and it is up to Chairman Arafat to demonstrate leadership to combat terrorism...
...Bush says he first learned last Thursday that Lay had approached his Cabinet secretaries for help. Press secretary Ari Fleischer told Bush he should expect to be asked about any contacts that he had with Lay. Fleischer had researched the matter, and he "refreshed" the President's memory about the last time he met with Lay: in spring 2001, in Houston, at an event hosted by Bush's mother. O'Neill was present at the Thursday discussion and said, "Oh, by the way, you need to know that I had a conversation with Ken Lay. He called me." O'Neill...