Word: jims
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...Jim McDougal was the kind of go-go entrepreneur that likes to befriend politicians but that politicians sometimes later regret ever having met. His friendship with fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton began in the late 1960s, when both were young staffers for Senator William Fulbright. In 1978 Bill and Hillary joined McDougal and his wife Susan in a real estate venture. A year later, Clinton became Governor and appointed McDougal his economic-development adviser. By the early 1980s, McDougal had left government work to make his fortune: he converted Madison Guaranty, a tiny institution, into one of the largest savings...
Federal officials insist that the Clintons are not targets of the investigation and that the only link is their coincidental association with McDougal. Clinton said last week that neither he nor Hillary had done anything improper. "Knowing and being associated with Jim McDougal looked a lot different when he seemed to be a successful entrepreneur than it does now," says Bruce Lindsey, another native Arkansan, now senior adviser to the President. Indeed, based on the evidence known thus far, the Clintons may be guilty only of poor business judgment (they lost nearly $70,000 on the Whitewater deal...
...said never again," recalls Graham, who put everyone on straight salary and later set up a board dominated by outsiders. (Graham has, however, ministered to his wayward fellow preachers; after Jim Bakker's fall from grace, he quietly visited the imprisoned televangelist in Minnesota for a prayer session.) For years Graham's annual salary was $69,150 plus a $23,050 housing allowance, but last April his board raised that to $101,250 plus $33,750. He was given homes in Florida and California but donated them to Christian causes...
...Jim says he has started to put his life in order. He has been clean since March, and says he has benefited from living at the center...
Whitman's campaign manager Edward J. Rollins said that Whitman endorsed payments to ministers totalling $500,000, in connection with asking the ministers not to make strong efforts to get out the vote for Democratic incumbent Gov. Jim Florio...