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...episode in which a deputy chief of staff gingerly points out that Clinton's many fund-raising coffees may make it necessary to temporarily cut short those troublesome government duties like his daily briefings by advisers. All the same, for sheer madcap ingenuity, nothing beats the unsigned memo suggesting ways to reach "our very aggressive goal of $40 million." The ways? Offer donors seats on Air Force One and Two. Put them at the table at presidential dinners. Get them into that maximum lunchroom, the White House mess. Never let it be said that only Republicans want to privatize government...
...January 1996 there was another memo to Ickes and chief of staff Leon Panetta. This one, from Evelyn Lieberman, another deputy chief of staff, urged more coffees. In 1995 and '96 there would be a total of 103, several in a good week-- enough to produce mild caffeine overload and $27 million. But the really notable part of that memo was the warning by Lieberman that during two weeks of intense activity, "staff who routinely brief the President will be asked to be flexible during this period and accept that their briefings may be considerably truncated or eliminated...
President Clinton is notorious for his obsession with the legacy that he will leave. Perhaps a part of that legacy will be the following memo written to the national-finance chair of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe. When presented with a busy schedule of for-sale breakfasts, lunches and coffees, Clinton writes, "Yes, pursue all three and promptly. And get other names at 100,000 or more, 50,000 or more. Ready to start overnights right away...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Did Democratic fund-raisers sell jobs and federal appointments for cash? A memo written in April, 1994 by an unidentified fund-raiser, and kept in the files of former senior White House advisor Harold Ickes, flatly stated that in order to reach a fundraising goal of $40 million, the Democratic party needed White House support, among other things, for "Better coordination on appointments to boards and commissions.? Ickes gave the memo to Congress. Trying for positive spin as the news got progressively worse, the Democratic National Committee said Friday that it is returning another $1.5 million in improper...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Did Democratic fund-raisers sell jobs and federal appointments for cash? A memo written in April, 1994 by an unidentified fund-raiser, and kept in the files of former senior White House advisor Harold Ickes, flatly stated that in order to reach a fundraising goal of $40 million, the Democratic party needed White House support, among other things, for "Better coordination on appointments to boards and commissions.? Ickes gave the memo to Congress. Trying for positive spin as the news got progressively worse, the Democratic National Committee said Friday that it is returning another $1.5 million in improper...