Word: pooley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began two weeks ago when we were closing our cover story on Morris' secretive relationship with Clinton, which White House correspondent Eric Pooley had been working on for two months. Morris became worried that he would appear on the cover along with Clinton, something that neither he nor the White House wanted. He called me late one night to say, in no uncertain language, that this would upset him, and the President as well. I told him I understood the concern but that it was up to us to choose our cover image...
Late last Friday afternoon, TIME White House correspondents Eric Pooley and J.F.O. McAllister interviewed the President in Washington. Excerpts...
...Cole said, he denied passes to employees who had used drugs, some of them shortly before the checks. But after the White House instituted a voluntary drug-testing program in May 1994, the workers were issued passes. "The Republicans will probably try to use this," says TIME's Eric Pooley. "But, it is not likely to prove a decisive turning point. Drugs are a part of the culture, and voters know this. Besides, a Democratic administration attracts idealistic young people who grew up during the 1970's." Unless the GOP concocts an unusually clever way to exploit the issue, Pooley...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton's new campaign dollop is a four-year, $5 billion construction program designed to fix crumbling schools nationwide. "Because it's about schools and kids, and it's an election year, proposing this now is very attractive for Clinton," says TIME White House correspondent Eric Pooley. "Everything Clinton's doing this year is designed to make him look good." The program, which will help school districts pay for repair costs and new construction, apparently is Clinton's response to a General Accounting Office report released two weeks ago that documented serious decay in the many...
...differ: while Dole opposes smoking ads that might encourage kids to smoke, he prefers to let states set their own bans, according to Dole press secretary Nelson Warfield. "This has less to do with what Dole really believes than it does with Dole's character," says TIME's Eric Pooley. "You have to put up with a tremendous amount of inanity in politics, and this incident shows how much better Clinton is at handling these situations than Dole is." Dole set himself up for the new Clinton ad campaign by sternly defending his position on tobacco to the point...