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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Another chapter in the White House as Motel 6 story broke Tuesday with a newly released internal memo that showed President Clinton eagerly approving a recommendation to use Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers as bait to encourage big Democratic donors. Clinton?s handwritten note was prompted by a memo from Clinton-Gore finance chairman Terence McAuliffe identifying ways to pursue10 prominent contributors, including recommending that they be treated to Presidential face time at breakfasts, lunches, coffees or other outings. "Yes, pursue all 3 and promptly -- and get other names of the 100,000 or more," Clinton wrote back, apparently asking...
There were other signs last week that Starr was entering a late phase of his probe. The Washington Post reported that he is close to completing a detailed memo outlining the pros and cons of bringing charges against senior Clinton officials, as well as the President and his wife. A Clinton adviser suggests that Starr is merely leaking word of such a memo to keep the Clinton camp off balance. But when it comes to Hubbell, Clinton has a way of sounding flummoxed. Asked recently if he knew anything about Hubbell's Lippo contract, the President denied knowing about...
Although the crisis is plagued by a lack of adequate data, a recent memo from the city's community development director indicates that up to 2,326 units of Cambridge's estimated total inventory of 6,980 low-income housing units could potentially be lost by the year...
...last campaign. Meanwhile, a cohort of departing Cabinet secretaries, whose relationships with Clinton were more deeply rooted than the new OMB director's, seized their final chance to make demands. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, for example, facing $1 billion in new low-income-housing cuts, lamented in a memo to Raines that found its way to the Wall Street Journal, "Now is not the time to change course. I believe this is a serious mistake...
...approached not only Shalala but also Medicare- and Medicaid-programs administrator Bruce Vladeck, whose office had written the sharper guidelines and who offered to consider revisions. Solomont says he was the "impetus" for at least two meetings with Vladeck and an exchange of letters. In one memo, Solomont asked Vladeck to review suggested changes: "Put it in your own words and send it back to us in a letter [to show] our mutual direction." To consumer advocates such as Toby Edelman of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, "it's disturbing they had access that ordinary people don't have...