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...President went about his business, but by night he worked the phones, and his staff members spun round the clock trying to keep Democratic lawmakers in line. On Tuesday, House Democratic leaders met with White House aides Larry Stein, John Podesta and Erskine Bowles, all of whom appeared to participants to be "in shock." All they could do was to keep saying they were sorry, complained one Democratic member, and reiterate that they understood what House Democrats were feeling. It was contrition by proxy. For much of the week there was no strategy, no guidance and no evidence that...
Deputy chief of staff John Podesta assembled the team, including former Clinton Hill lobbyists Howard Paster and Pat Griffin, as well as Tommy Boggs, the king of Washington lobbyists. In regular contact with lawmakers and their top staffs, members of the President's shadow lobbying enterprise are in a good position to test Clinton's fortunes. Separately, businessman Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's close friend and principal fund raiser, is known to have phoned hundreds of Democratic financial supporters to rally support for the President. They, in turn, are calling in their support to Democratic lawmakers. And it would be hard...
...letter to the FBI asking it to investigate the White House for trying to intimidate lawmakers, without being able to prove it was behind it. The White House put out frantic calls to its Hill Democrats trying to assure them that it hadn't leaked the story--Podesta called Hyde himself--but as spokesman Mike McCurry admitted, the perception in Washington is that "the White House lies about everything; our credibility is zero...
Aides John Podesta, Erskine Bowles, Sidney Blumenthal and Harold Ickes testified that Clinton confided to them that he had had no sexual relationship with Lewinsky, including oral...
WASHINGTON: Could it be true? Is President Clinton just about the only person in America who has managed to avoid reading any of the Starr report, as his deputy chief of staff John Podesta claims? It's a tidbit that betrays the siege mentality at the White House, where the leader of the free world is increasingly becoming the loneliest man in it. Clinton skipped even his regular church service Sunday (where his transgressions were the subject of the day's sermon), while his attorney David Kendall hit the talk shows to defend his client's indefensible semantic contortion -- that...