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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Another chapter in the White House as Motel 6 story broke Tuesday with a newly released internal memo that showed President Clinton eagerly approving a recommendation to use Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers as bait to encourage big Democratic donors. Clinton?s handwritten note was prompted by a memo from Clinton-Gore finance chairman Terence McAuliffe identifying ways to pursue10 prominent contributors, including recommending that they be treated to Presidential face time at breakfasts, lunches, coffees or other outings. "Yes, pursue all 3 and promptly -- and get other names of the 100,000 or more," Clinton wrote back, apparently asking...
...despite protestations by the FBI about the thoroughness of its investigation, the probe was hasty and incomplete, overlooking evidence that more than one killer was involved. For example, Earl Caldwell, then a reporter for the New York Times, was in his room on the first floor of the Lorraine Motel when the shot rang out. He ran out and saw a man crouching near the edge of a weed-covered embankment at the foot of the flophouse from which the FBI contends Ray fired the fatal shot. This shadowy figure, Caldwell says, seemed to be focusing his attention...
Ozell Sutton was one of three agents from the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Justice Department who were at the motel that evening. Sutton's roommate at the Lorraine was another CRS agent, James Laue, who rushed from their room onto the balcony with the towel that Ralph David Abernathy used to cushion King's head. According to Sutton, he was never questioned by the FBI and, to the best of his knowledge, neither was Laue, who has since died. Neither of them saw anything, says Sutton, but he's troubled by the fact that the FBI never tried...
Elliott and Kessinger first spoke to the FBI on April 19, when McVeigh was still completely unknown. A composite sketch based on their description of "Kling" was shown to motel owners around Junction City. On April 20, Lea McGown, proprietor of the Dreamland Motel, recognized the man as a guest named Timothy McVeigh. The agents searched a database and discovered that someone of that name was arrested on April 19 for speeding 90 miles north of Oklahoma City; he looked almost exactly like the composite sketch. So, the government argues, Elliott and Kessinger described McVeigh before anyone knew...
...asked about the absence of disdain in the press toward the publishers that, according to one report, made competing offers to Morris after his involvement with Sherry Rowlands was revealed--inspiring some writers I know to imagine that if they ever got caught with a hooker in a cheap motel they'd be able to say to their wives, "I was only trying to get a bigger advance...