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Eric Holder figured the call could wait. His pager had gone off in the middle of a Washington Wizards game on Jan. 14, 1998. But when a second page came in at 10:18 p.m. with a message marked "Urgent," the then Deputy Attorney General decided to call back. "What's up?" he asked Jackie Bennett, principal deputy to Independent Counsel Ken Starr...
...that night of Jan. 14, Holder demonstrated the kind of apolitical open mind he was known for as a local judge and U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Named to the DOJ's No. 2 job a year earlier, he served as the contact point for the sprawling independent-counsel probes commissioned by his boss, Janet Reno, into everything from an Arkansas land deal to the firing of the White House's travel office. So when Bennett asked for a meeting late the next day, Holder quickly acceded with an invitation to his office...
...bell with the prosecutors, who had been pursuing evidence that Jordan helped obtain a lucrative consulting contract for another Clinton pal who was a potential witness in the Whitewater land-deal probe. Starr's team had heard enough from Tripp to wire her up for a planned meeting on Jan. 13 with Lewinsky, who ended up confiding more damaging information about Clinton: she claimed he had told her he planned to deny their affair in a deposition by Jones lawyers four days later...
...Still, there were two key differences then: Hoover was actually eager to work with Roosevelt, while Bush has little interest in helping Obama push through an auto-industry bailout. Also, Roosevelt's Inauguration was not until March 4, while Obama's is set for Jan. 20. "That was a much longer period in which the Depression and other things went on," Hess says. "So the delay was much more serious. Whatever happens now, they're just postponing things for a few weeks...
...cataclysmic presidency, and yet nobody talked of impeachment even after it had become evident that the Administration lied about its motives to go to war. Bill Clinton almost lost his presidency because of an affair! It makes me sick to think that Bush will stay in office until Jan. 20. Remove him now, and let Obama start to repair the damage that has been inflicted on the U.S. and the rest of the world. Those eight years under Bush have not only been wasted, they have reversed the geopolitical evolution of the human race. Alexander Schneider, BRIXLEGG, AUSTRIA...