Word: walters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Working for Clinton has helped seal Currie's place in the Democratic firmament--she moves easily through the most sophisticated worlds, and is friendly with Vernon Jordan and donor Walter Kaye (who recommended Lewinsky for the internship). But, as she once told the Chicago Tribune, "I didn't think the hours would be so long." She works 12 hours a day six days a week--and sometimes on Sundays, as she did Jan. 18, when Clinton reportedly called her in and walked her through his version of the Lewinsky affair. As the fallout from that day continues, unwanted opportunities...
...sending volunteers to work with the Cubans and help them lead normal lives. One may agree or not with the Pope's religious doctrine, but as a world leader John Paul II should no more be compared to Castro than Churchill should be compared to Mussolini. RALPH E. WALTER Munich...
...might have gone for it," he told me. "It's true that this wouldn't have got to the point of subpoenas without Richard Mellon Scaife and his fevered friends. But they didn't put Monica Lewinsky in the White House. Of course, the guy who recommended her, Walter Kaye, is a particular friend of Hillary Clinton's, but I never figured Hillary for the engineer of this. Wronged wife who finally takes revenge? Too obvious. Too much like a Barbara Stanwyck movie...
...Walter Kirn...
...fresh out of college, with no background in politics but with a prized Washington asset: connections. Her mother Marcia Lewis, an author and socialite, lives at the Watergate (not far from the Doles, Lewis liked to tell associates); more important, Monica's mother knew Walter Kaye, a retired New York City insurance magnate and generous contributor to the Democratic Party. Kaye recommended Monica for a summer internship at the White House, a job she probably would not otherwise have landed. Monica "was excited about it," says a close college friend. "She enjoys hobnobbing." Especially with the famous and powerful...