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Stephanopoulos was also on the phone to Steiner. That was the conversation in which he says he "blew off steam" about Stephens. Again, others describe the conversation differently. They say Stephanopoulos began with the classic "this conversation never happened" line and proceeded to ask Steiner, "How can we get rid...
The reference is to February 1993 when Clinton fired all 93 U.S. Attorneys who had been appointed by George Bush. One of them was Stephens, who was then U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and developing a case against House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski -- a pivotal...
Stephanopoulos confirms that the conversation occurred but says he only "suggested as a courtesy that ((Altman)) write a letter to the President explaining his decision. I don't remember anything else about that conversation." Other sources familiar with the call offer more elaborate accounts. Says one: "As best we can...
Altman's own version, as reported by sources close to Fiske, is that either Stephanopoulos or Ickes asked, "What about Jay Stephens? Can anything be done about it, or are we stuck with this?" Altman reportedly cut off the conversation "quite quickly," telling his callers he "absolutely would not" be...
Certainly it will not help Clinton in the process he had begun -- but only just begun -- to turn public attention away from Whitewater and back to what he called "the fact that by common consensus we had the most productive first year of a presidency last year of anyone in...