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...John Sununu's travel travails force his resignation as White House chief of staff, one Washington insider is perfectly placed to succeed him. Craig Fuller, who served as Bush's top aide during the Reagan years before being shoved aside by Sununu after the 1988 election, has spent the past few years on the bureaucratic back bench working for a Washington public relations firm. Fuller is reminding acquaintances of his continuing ties to the Oval Office by confiding that the President is privately very concerned about the Sununu flap...
Most people who work at the White House treat an order from the President as holy writ. So everyone expected quick action when George Bush, embarrassed by news stories on the freeloading travels of chief of staff John Sununu, directed him to "get it all out" and make "full disclosure" of his expensive trips aboard Air Force executive jets to ski resorts in Colorado and to his home in New Hampshire...
...Instead, Sununu stonewalled. At Bush's insistence, he issued a list of his White House travels, but it has proved to be incomplete, inaccurate and misleading. It conceals crucial information that TIME has obtained concerning at least four family skiing vacations and a fifth trip to his New Hampshire home that were financed by corporate interests -- in violation of federal ethics laws. Sununu declined requests for interviews about his travels, smugly assuring associates that if he simply hunkered down and said nothing more, "this whole thing will blow over." But Sununu's troubles are not going away just yet. President...
...Sununu's conduct raises questions that go far beyond the use of taxpayer-funded planes and invites a new twist on the New Hampshire motto: LIVE FREE OR DIE. Since he joined the Bush Administration, Sununu and his family have taken at least four ski trips and one trip home to New England that were financed in large part by corporate interests. Yet federal law forbids officials to accept valuable gifts, including travel and recreation, except from certain charitable and educational organizations. Items...
...CHRISTA MCAULIFFE SABBATICAL FOUNDATION, named after the New Hampshire schoolteacher killed in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, raises money to give teachers time off to pursue further studies. The foundation, which was organized by Sununu in 1986, holds a four-day fund- raising ski event each February at the Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire. For the past three years, Sununu and unidentified members of his family have flown to the event on Air Force executive jets. The Sununus in 1989 flew up on Air Force Two with Vice President Quayle. In response to written questions submitted...