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...Hanson called the RTC's Kulka at home the next day with Nussbaum's request. Kulka brushed her off, telling Hanson that while Nussbaum was correct about the charter, Fiske didn't want any part of the civil case...
...from any oversight of the Madison investigation. The reason was obvious: staying in place would create a conflict of interest as the RTC investigated a case involving his friend, the President. But stepping aside would mean that responsibility for the investigation would fall entirely to RTC general counsel Ellen Kulka, who had no ties to the Clintons. Kulka and Treasury counsel Jean Hanson had urged Altman to recuse himself. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen agreed but left the decision to Altman...
...Altman went to the White House, where he intended to present his / recusal at the conclusion of a meeting designed to bring Clinton aides up to speed on procedural aspects of the Madison investigation. But White House counsel Nussbaum urged Altman to stay. Nussbaum worried aloud that Kulka was a smart, tough lawyer. At the hearings last week, Hanson recalled Nussbaum saying that Altman, if he did not recuse, could impose "discipline on the process and lead to a fairer result." After the meeting, Nussbaum pulled Hanson aside and asked how Kulka had been hired. (During the hearings, Nussbaum denied...
...days earlier to step aside. When Hanson replied that only three people knew, Hanson said, Ickes pronounced this good. "If it gets out," she recalled him saying, "it will look bad." (Testifying under oath, Ickes could not recall saying this.) Later in the day, Altman told Hanson to tell Kulka to brief the Clintons' private attorney, David Kendall, on the RTC's probe. Kulka refused. Sometime that day, Nussbaum called Hanson and asked why Kulka's hiring had not been cleared with...
Suddenly the bomb unhinged, dropped through the fragile bomb-bay doors, which flapped open, fell out of the B-47. Somehow Kulka managed to catch hold of something-he cannot remember what it was-and hung on for his life in the empty bomb bay in the whistling wind. Back in the flight cabin, Koehler heard a rumble, and Copilot Charles Woodruff idly noticed a shock wave radiating on the ground. "Just like a concussion wave from a bomb," Woodruff told himself. Then, with a shock, he realized what had happened. Captain Koehler closed the bomb-bay doors and reported...