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...Hillary Clinton's land deals. Prosecutors unsuccessfully asked Mrs. McDougal three questions before seeking a contempt charge. Two dealt with whether Clinton knew about a loan and a piece of property in which the Whitewater corporation had an interest, she said. The third, Mrs. McDougal said, asked, "Did William Jefferson Clinton testify truthfully before your trial?" Judge Susan Webber Wright said Mrs. McDougal faces up to 18 months in prison if she does not testify to the grand jury before Monday. "Mrs. McDougal is exercising what she says is her right to silence without good cause," the judge declared...
Though he cultivates an outsider's air and stands apart from the Clinton establishment--making the weekly commute from his rural Connecticut home, conducting business out of a suite at the elegant Jefferson Hotel--Morris has an insider's ability to push his agenda. His allies are the First Lady, Vice President Al Gore, press secretary Mike McCurry, communications director Don Baer, policy adviser Bruce Reed and presidential counselor Bill Curry. But his closest confidant is the President himself, for whom he prepares exclusive briefing books that sometimes critique Clinton's other advisers. Some aides say Morris sees the Executive...
...Call me William Jefferson. I originated in a place called Hope, but which might as well have been called Lust or All-Consuming Ambition, and I came roaring forth filled with a soaring zest to converse, to consume, to bunk down with my fellow countrymen and especially countrywomen on the warm, level mattress of Democracy. But somewhere along the way, I discerned a cold, repellent glint in America's eye. Maybe it was my stepfather's rages, or the way my wife's face hardened when the subject turned to cattle futures or real estate or banking. So I learned...
...Thomas Jefferson once wrote that he "trembled" for his country when he remembered that God is just, that He will not withhold judgment forever. When "reform" means throwing families into the streets and starving their children, it's possible that judgment day is nearing. And when it comes, the blood will run ankle-deep...
...fallen from $1.9 billion in 1992 to $1.4 billion this year, a cut of more than 25%. "The money is collected for aviation, and it should be spent for aviation, not to make the deficit look smaller," says Tim Neale, spokesman for the Air Transport Association. Representative William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, was stunned earlier this year when FAA Administrator David Hinson and Transportation Secretary Federico Pena told him the trust fund was going broke. Jefferson was looking for money to expand the New Orleans airport. "The bottom line is that there isn't a fund for forward-looking capital...