Word: gerth
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...YORK: The papers of record didn't go home empty-handed at this year's Pulitzer prizes: The New York Times took home a pair, one for columnist Maureen Dowd's cranky Clinton-Lewinsky columns and another for Jeff Gerth's chronicling of the China satellite flap. The Wall Street Journal netted two as well, one for International Reporting (the Russian financial meltdown) and one for Feature Writing. And the Washington Post took home the Public Service award for "Deadly Force," about reckless gunplay by D.C. police officers. For photography, it was an historic but not-too-surprising sweep...
What got the New York Times into a lather over these visits was Bruce Lindsey's characterization of them as social calls. According to a Times story by Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton, Lindsey withheld information about the Riady meetings despite the recommendations of White House lawyers Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani. A Times editorial then called on Lindsey to resign. But while Sherburne was quoted in Gerth and Labaton's story, Fabiani has never confirmed the account. Sources close to Sherburne say that she never felt she had been overruled or lied to by Lindsey and that the Times...
...EARLY 1992, AS CLINTON ENDURED A BRUISING PRIMARY campaign for the White House, Whitewater came back to haunt Bill and Hillary. Jeff Gerth of the New York Times began poking around Arkansas, interviewing McDougal and others about Madison and Whitewater. Hillary called her good friend New York lawyer Susan Thomases. She told Thomases that a reporter had stumbled onto a "stupid" investment she and Bill had made, and that the whole deal made her furious, especially at her husband. He'd got them into it, she said; McDougal was his friend. "I don't want everyone digging into our personal...
Susan herself had been enthusiastically supporting Clinton, dropping his name now that he was the Democratic front runner. One evening, before Gerth's New York Times story about the investment appeared in early March, the phone rang, and it was Hillary. Susan could hardly believe it--in all their dealings, it was the first time she could remember Hillary calling her rather than her husband. Susan was excited; she put behind her the ill will that had developed between them. "I'm so proud of you!" Susan exclaimed. "You're running for President. You've made all of Arkansas proud...
...case of Hillary Rodham Clinton, glimpses of the shadow appeared the moment Jeff Gerth's article in The New York Times was printed on March 8, 1992, the first investigative report questioning the Clintons' involvement with Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and the Whitewater Development Company. This report marked the beginning of the end for Mrs. Clinton, during which she would gradually be subjected to the grueling fate of a suspect politician. Her political competence, integrity and trustworthiness were instantly colored by the doubt the media channeled to the public...