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...need for the two to live and work together in our increasingly interdependent world has never been greater," he said in 1993. Even alternative medicine can now be obtained on the National Health Service. "He is always pushing the boundaries, he wants to go further," says farm manager Wilson. "And he takes a very long view." His communications director, Paddy Harverson, says Charles "works ferociously hard." Last year he had 501 public engagements and wrote 2,300 letters. He never eats lunch (but likes an evening martini, straight up). The directors of his charities receive regular calls (no e-mails...
...Washington, a beautiful summer day, and I had just come back from swimming. All morning I had been trying to reach I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for a cover story about both President George W. Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's controversial Op-Ed. I had been invited to a fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby, who was traveling to Norfolk, Va., with Vice President Dick Cheney...
...supported my making that call, thought Libby might well do so. After all, he had granted a waiver to a Washington Post reporter, and Tim Russert of NBC had just avoided contempt by testifying about his end of his conversation with Libby. Most important, my exchange with Libby about Wilson had been short and, in my thinking and Time Inc.'s, not especially provocative. When I reached Libby to ask for the waiver I told him, "I've been called before the grand jury, and I think they're going to ask me about a conversation we had about...
...RUSSERT Libby first heard the rumor that Joseph Wilson's wife, above, worked for the CIA during a conversation with Russert on July...
Neither Joseph Wilson nor the former diplomat's wife were mentioned in the conversation NBC's Tim Russert had with Libby on July 10, 2003. Libby had already heard about the Wilsons' identity from officials he tapped to help collect information about the Niger trip and had spoken to one person about the couple. Those involved included, among others...