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Clinton was thinking about reshuffling his foreign policy team even as he was forced to accept the resignation of yet another politically naive official from Arkansas who took a Marine helicopter ride to a golf course. Further disclosures about the First Lady's commodities trading competed for space in newspaper columns with questions about the President's legal strategy over a sexual-harassment suit. Congress missed the White House's Memorial Day deadline for marking up health-care-reform legislation. Several White House officials said the best reason for taking the week-long tour of Italy, Britain and France...
...White House that evening when he learned that another old pal from Arkansas had run into ethical problems. White House operations chief David Watkins was forced to resign Thursday after it was disclosed that he commandeered a $2,380-an-hour presidential helicopter for a round of golf in suburban Maryland. Watkins had been a liability for months; he had been reprimanded in 1993 for firing seven White House travel officers on charges of financial impropriety. An embarrassed and angry Clinton promised that the Treasury would be "fully reimbursed" for Watkins' indiscretion. A day later, White House officials admitted that...
...Would you play golf with me or something...
...afternoon of golf at a private Maryland club, complete with convenient round-trip service aboard a presidential helicopter, led to a public outcry and cost White House director of administration David Watkins his job when an angry President Clinton learned about the trip...
Bogey: Clinton aide out after riding Bill's copter to a golf game...