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Cover: Computer-altered photomontage. All photographs from Tony Stone Images. Mountains by Bob Thomason; Denver skyline by Glen Allison; hiker by Barbara Filet...
...HARRY THOMASON...
...cronyism after the abrupt dismissal of its seven-member travel staff, which arranges travel for government officials and receives payment from news organizations for the same service. Accusing the longtime staffers of "gross mismanagement," the Administration insisted its action was not a response to complaints by Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, an intimate of the Clintons who has friends in the charter-airplane business. Facing an uproar when a cousin of the President was named to head an interim operation, while an Arkansas travel agency -- whose owner contributed to the Clinton campaign -- was chosen to handle travel arrangements, the White House...
...without cause, but it should ensure beforehand that its pink slips do not produce red faces. It turned out that the investigation was touched off, in part, by a memo from Darnell Martens, president of an airline consulting firm, TRM, in which presidential friend and Inaugural chairman Harry Thomason has a 25% share. During the campaign, TRM received a fee for administrative work associated with carrier contracts and for locating suitable ground facilities. Thomason, who has a temporary office in the White House while he closes Inaugural accounts and advises the President on reorganization, passed Martens' memo...
WASHINGTON -- From Barbra Streisand to Richard Dreyfuss, dozens of Hollywood types are treating Washington like Malibu East. Now Designing Women producer and Clinton adviser Harry Thomason, who has ensconced himself in a White House office, is trying to curtail the trend. "We don't want to discourage the enthusiasm," said Thomason last week, "but yes, there may be too many of them around." Maybe so, but Hillary Rodham Clinton was so impressed by a recent Liza Minnelli performance that she invited the singer to stop by for a visit next month...