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...Bush vice presidency. Grobmyer's plan was heard far and wide: it reached Clinton twice by letter, and it landed in offices as high as Deputy National Security Adviser Nancy Soderberg's. In fact, it so consumed White House aides that the relentless Grobmyer was dubbed the "pitchman" by an insider. But for all the boasting he did about his presidential connection, Grobmyer came away without the environmental waivers he needed to deposit the radioactive waste in Palmyra atoll, a U.S. territory where this kind of storage is prohibited...
TIGER WOODS The "Cablinasian" golf champ continues to turn his irons into gold. His latest incarnation: global pitchman for American Express. At least he's not endorsing sneakers...
...also episodes outside the White House that look suspiciously as though fund raisers tried to lure special interests with the prospect of spending time with officials who could affect their businesses. One was a $10,000-a-plate dinner attended by Clinton last year at the mansion of Democratic pitchman William Brandt, outside Chicago. It raked in more than $1 million for the D.N.C. The guests included bankruptcy lawyers and bankers. Also present was Brady Williamson, whom Clinton had just appointed chairman of a commission that will file a report later this year recommending changes to bankruptcy...
Despite his stiffness in public, Gore is a born pitchman. Last year he brought the party more than $15 million. "If we needed someone to go to a fund raiser," says a campaign official, "he'd always volunteer." If Gore runs in 2000, many of those donors, their names resting in the personal database that he keeps at the DNC, will be tapped again. During his trip last week to the Los Angeles meeting of the big-spending afl-cio, where he promised new rules requiring all businesses that contract with the Federal Government to meet fair-labor standards, Gore...
...inspire the more independent, creative types, however, Glaser paid RealMilk pitchman and film auteur Spike Lee to make three five-minute online "films." "Before this technology came into play, there was always a question about whose work would get seen and whose wouldn't," said Lee during the press demo. The Pavarotti of the Net looked on and beamed...