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...even this feel-good event had a gray cloud: the White House was supposed to host one of the photo-op ceremonies on the South Lawn, but the event had to be moved because of the plane wreckage strewn on Bill and Hillary's lawn. (See above.) The oath was administered to a total of 20,000 throughout the country by satellite...
...House staff members. By last week it was clear that both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill felt they had been misled by the Clinton White House. Roger Altman demanded that lawmakers believe his own recollections of meetings, rather than those of seven other officials who contradicted him under oath. Joshua Steiner, the 28- year-old Treasury chief of staff, insisted that his diary was no longer a reliable source of information. Senior policy adviser George Stephanopoulos, whose memory is legendary among his colleagues, used the expression "I don't remember" 31 times in his Senate deposition. The parade...
...special prosecutor Fiske, who had been chosen two weeks earlier by Reno to launch the criminal inquiry into Whitewater? If so, Nussbaum told Hanson, she might want to inform Altman, still fully in charge of the Madison case, that such a transfer was possible under Fiske's charter. (Under oath, Nussbaum recalled suggesting this to Hanson, but insisted that he did so to help Altman get out of his conflict-of-interest problems...
...recalled that Ickes asked her how many people were aware that she had advised Altman two 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...
...populace that has nearly ODed on O.J., the hearings that begin this week may well prove disappointing. Yes, there will be witnesses -- some from the White House -- answering questions under oath. But instead of bloody gloves and thumps in the night, their testimony will focus on when and what Treasury Department higher-ups learned about contacts between their underlings and White House aides concerning a Resolution Trust Corporation recommendation that the Justice Department consider . . . Are you still there...