Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 11 Foster again complained to Lisa about the travel office, which he was convinced would lead to congressional hearings. He again said he intended to resign. Lisa suggested he write down what was bothering him. He should take the offensive, she said, and defend himself...
Foster went upstairs. Taking a pen and a piece of yellow legal paper, he wrote down a series of thoughts about the previous few months, including his belief that no one in the White House had violated any laws in the travel-office firings. (The piece of paper would later be found in his briefcase, ripped into scraps.) The last item said, "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport...
Foster had turned to Thomases to express frustration over the travel-office report, and she had become something of a confidante. Now she tried to reassure Foster, but he said he needed to talk to her "off the campus," somewhere they wouldn't be seen. Thomases suggested 2020 O Street, a private rooming house where she sometimes stayed in Washington...
...mentioned how overworked he was and how he lacked the time and the support staff he was used to in Little Rock. If he didn't get more help, he said, he was afraid he'd "let the President and Hillary down." Predictably, he brought up the travel-office affair, adding that he didn't trust presidential aide David Watkins, whom he feared might fabricate or embellish the facts to cover himself, possibly at the expense of the First Lady...
Foster's relationship with Hillary suffered even more strain in the wake of the travel-office firings and never recovered. In response to a later question from the independent counsel, the First Lady testified that she hadn't even spoken to Foster after mid-June...