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Admas' wife, Margaret A. Young '27-'36, died in1978. He is survived by three daughters--M. EloiseAdams of Bethesda, Ma., Elaine Miller of Madison,Wis., and Barbara Thompson of Oak Park, III. Healso leaves behind seven grandchildren and twosisters, Mary Ella Adams and Lula Hage...
...during contacts with the White House over the Whitewater affair. He nonetheless apologized for potentially misleading testimony given at an earlier hearing. During intense grilling by committee members, Altman pointed out that three independent investigations had discovered no interference by Clinton Administration officials in the case of the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's chief of staff, Joshua Steiner, tried to dismiss the accuracy of entries in his diary, in which he had written that Altman had "gracefully ducked" a question about Whitewater-related meetings...
...other snippet could also come up at the hearings. Clinton himself, it turns out, asked Eugene Ludwig, who as Comptroller of the Currency is the Treasury's top banking regulator, for advice about the Madison investigation. According to Ludwig's spokesman Lee Cross, at a Renaissance Weekend conference over the New Year holiday in South Carolina, Clinton asked Ludwig, who was sitting next to the President in a seminar, "if he could provide any advice on the Whitewater matter, advice on the legal and regulatory issues" involved in the collapse of Madison. Ludwig consulted Hanson and deputy White House counsel...
...memo from Hanson dated Sept. 30 that is in the hands of congressional probers,she writes of press inquiries about the investigation and continues, "I have spoken with the Secretary ((Bentsen)) and also Bernie Nussbaum," who was then White House counsel. The investigation, into the failure of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, which was owned by Clinton friend and Whitewater partner James McDougal, was conducted by the Resolution Trust Corporation, a federal organization that gets financing from the Treasury. RTC had referred its findings to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution, naming Bill and Hillary Clinton as possible -- though perhaps...
Testimony in front of the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater affair revealed the most damning evidence to date. Jean Hanson, Treasury Department general counsel, said that her boss, the beleaguered Roger Altman, told her to give the White House information on the Madison Guaranty investigation. Earlier in the day, an official of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) acknowledged that information was given to the Clinton Administration, but that he had no idea the material, regarding the failed Arkansas S&L, would be passed on to the White House. "It was supposed to be confidential . . . and the RTC breached that responsibility...