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...White House mess, indeed. There comes a moment in every political scandal when the fog starts to clear. In the intricate matter that is Democratic fund raising, the moment is now. For much of that we can thank Harold Ickes. In response to a request from congressional investigators, Ickes has been turning over thousands of pages of documents from his three years as Clinton's deputy chief of staff, the job he left in January, thus forcing the White House to release them before they leak. While most appear to be harmless to the White House, a few priceless pages...
...knows Harold Ickes was surprised to learn that he walked out of the White House in January with thousands of documents. In a White House where files have a way of getting lost in closets, Ickes was the compulsive pack rat, a man known for keeping Eugene McCarthy campaign records in his basement. One friend, when told last week that Ickes left with at least 2,400 pages, said only, "Uh...is that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Did Democratic fund-raisers sell jobs and federal appointments for cash? A memo written in April, 1994 by an unidentified fund-raiser, and kept in the files of former senior White House advisor Harold Ickes, flatly stated that in order to reach a fundraising goal of $40 million, the Democratic party needed White House support, among other things, for "Better coordination on appointments to boards and commissions.? Ickes gave the memo to Congress. Trying for positive spin as the news got progressively worse, the Democratic National Committee said Friday that it is returning another $1.5 million in improper...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Did Democratic fund-raisers sell jobs and federal appointments for cash? A memo written in April, 1994 by an unidentified fund-raiser, and kept in the files of former senior White House advisor Harold Ickes, flatly stated that in order to reach a fundraising goal of $40 million, the Democratic party needed White House support, among other things, for "Better coordination on appointments to boards and commissions.? Ickes gave the memo to Congress. Trying for positive spin as the news got progressively worse, the Democratic National Committee said Friday that it is returning another $1.5 million in improper...
...fired the fatal shot. This shadowy figure, Caldwell says, seemed to be focusing his attention on the balcony where King's aides were hovering around the fallen civil rights leader. Caldwell lost track of him in the confusion. His account is in line with the story told by Harold ("Cornbread") Carter, who was drinking wine in a cardboard shelter near the flophouse when the killing occurred. Carter claimed a white man with a rifle walked right past him to the foot of the embankment--precisely where Caldwell spotted a crouching figure--and fired at the motel. Yet the FBI never...