Word: travels
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...communications chief David Gergen and transferred George Stephanopoulos to a new post. Gergen, a Republican, is expected to become Clinton's new spokesman. The shift came at the end of a week in which the White House tried to recover from a string of political gaffes. After dismissing seven travel-office workers for alleged mismanagement and then inappropriately calling in the FBI, the White House reinstated five of them within days. The President also denied charges that his Administration has "gone Hollywood" and apologized for tying up traffic at the Los Angeles airport to get a haircut. "I'm glad...
These past few weeks, only a sadist could take pleasure in watching Stephanopoulos sputter as he tried to explain to skeptical -- and even scornful -- reporters the abject reinstatement of five employees from the White House travel office who had been summarily fired a week earlier. And only Saturday Night Live's writers could enjoy the spectacle of Myers trying to defend the White House's farcical attempt to turn a female TV reporter into a presidential makeup artist during a Clinton visit to New Hampshire. Why had a White House staff member asked the local journalist, who was about...
...Clinton White House also had its end-run press strategy, whereby Clinton used talk shows and electronic town meetings, rather than dreary old press conferences with the dreary old national press corps, to commune with the people. To aggravate things further, Stephanopoulos & Co. shook up the White House travel office, which, however mismanaged, did provide first-class creature comforts -- at first-class prices -- to reporters on presidential trips...
...former Watergate committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier to the travel-office flap. Even congressional lobbyist Paster, one of the few officials with deep Washington experience, is too closely allied with the liberal House leadership for many House moderates and Senators...
...self-inflicted wounds. Clinton, in fact, was still stumbling from the missteps of the preceding week. His balmy decision to have his hair trimmed on Air Force One by a Beverly Hills coiffeur put the presidential scalp in national headlines, while a cronyism scandal in the White House travel office pitted Clinton's staff against the Justice Department. Later Secretary of State Warren Christopher had to telephone news organizations to contradict a speech by a top aide who had stated in public what many had been saying in private for weeks: under Clinton, the U.S. was retreating from leadership...