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Some of the revelations surrounding Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons have fallen under the "Gosh, that's embarrassing" category. Take Hugh Rodham's lobbying effort - and his $400,000 payday after securing two pardons from his brother-in-law. Or even the weekend allegations that Rodham asked White House lawyers about pardons or commutations for Nora and Eugene Lum, a high-powered couple convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Democrats. (The query, if it was made, was unsuccessful - neither Lum was pardoned...
Neither Roger nor Hugh nor the fugitive financier will be much help to President George W. Bush on Tuesday night when he takes the prime-time stage and delivers his budget address to a joint session of Congress with the nation watching. This was what Bill Clinton lived for, the annual sales presentation, and though the man could go on and on, he always his made his inch-by-inch priorities sound like the right, pain-feeling things to do, and afterward the Republicans always sounded stingy and mean...
...Hugh Rodham, Dade County public defender, makes a run at one of the U.S. Senate seats from Florida. While he stomps all over his primary opponent (an "X-Files" junkie who suspected the government of a massive alien-related cover-up), he eventually loses by a gaping margin to incumbent Republican, Connie Mack...
...Hugh decides to take on the tobacco lobby, along with several other well-connected plaintiff attorneys. He has never tried a major case before, but manages to stick with the lucrative suit until a settlement is reached in 1997. However, the $365 billion deal failed to get the required congressional approval...
...what is perhaps his weirdest scheme, Hugh teams up with younger brother Tony in an enterprise to grow and export hazelnuts from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. The $118 million venture comes to a screeching halt when Bill and Hillary discover that the brothers' business partner also happens to be the chief political rival of Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, a key U.S. ally. Months later, Hugh and Tony were back in the headlines - the brothers reportedly thought it might be OK if they stopped actually growing the nuts and just kept exporting them. Once again, the White House...