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...Richard Nixon could go to China, then Bill Clinton can bring the voice of democracy to Cuba. MARCIA ABAD-RONKA Calabasas Park, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1998 | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Could Scaife be Mr. Big? It seems that among most conservatives there are only two degrees of separation from the ubiquitous philanthropist. Those who haven't taken money from him usually work with someone who has. Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham writes in her memoir that Nixon wanted Scaife to buy the Post during the Watergate scandal. Scaife has also financed the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a backer of former FBI agent Gary Aldrich's loosely sourced, Clinton-bashing best seller Unlimited Access, and the Free Congress Foundation, which once set up a toll-free hot line for women who claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecuted or Paranoid? | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...right-wing publishing alone offers dozens of them. Consider Lucianne Goldberg, the smoky-voiced New York City literary agent and Bea Arthur act-alike who represents, among others, one Mark Fuhrman, the infamous O.J. detective. Not only did Goldberg serve in her youth as an undercover agent for Nixon during the 1972 election, and not only did she suggest that Tripp tape-record Lewinsky, but she has also been a tipster for Star, which broke the Gennifer Flowers story. According to Phil Bunton, Star's editor in chief, Goldberg came to him last fall with a sketchy version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecuted or Paranoid? | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Clinton home page features a doctored photograph of the President with his pants around his ankles. Then there's cybergossip Matt Drudge's controversial Drudge Report, which put the Lewinsky story on the Net days before it ran in print. In a sign that Clinton's White House, like Nixon's, takes its adversaries seriously, presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal is currently suing both Drudge and America Online, which runs his column, over a false tale of domestic violence that Drudge retracted the day after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecuted or Paranoid? | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Once upon a time that was true," the Spinmaster nodded. "I remember during Watergate, when Johnny Carson made a joke about Richard Nixon's favorite ice cream: 'imPEACHment.' That was a real clue that the public had turned. And all those jokes about Gerry Ford's clumsiness and Dan Quayle's stupidity made those images stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Keep 'Em Laughing | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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