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August 1995--Story--1--Big Tobacco had nothing to worry about--about ninety per cent of its KNOWN political contributions were going to the GOP. IN OTHER ACTION The nation's largest tobacco company boosted the nicotine in Benson & Hedges and Merit cigarettes sold to smokers who wanted a ''light,'' healthier cigarette, a congressman contended Monday. Philip Morris executives had told Congress under oath last year that they never manipulate nicotine levels and that nicotine is naturally lower in ''light'' cigarettes. But Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, showed private Philip Morris documents on the House floor that he said quoted company researchers as admitting (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 315 words.) Aug 1

August 1995--Story--2--And neither did Judge Sentelle and his wife-- collusion between conservatives is a subject the Mainstream Media avoids covering. JUDGE'S WIFE LANDS JOB -- WASHINGTON -- Last summer, Sen. Lauch Faircloth met with a federal judge whose panel was about to replace the Whitewater prosecutor. Six months later, the judge's wife went to work for the senator. Jane Oldham Sentelle, the wife of federal Appeals Judge David Sentelle, was hired Jan. 3 as a receptionist in Faircloth's Capitol Hill office at a salary of $20,000 a year. She had been paid $5,201.37 through March 31, Senate payroll records show(BOSTON GLOBE, 159 words), Aug 1

August 1995--Story--3--The results of an interesting poll.POLL FINDS RECORD DISTRUST OF LEADERS DISCONTENT CONSIDERED OPENING FOR NEW PARTY Three of four Americans distrust government, the most in polling history, according to a joint survey by Democratic and Republican pollsters. The results suggest an opening for a strong third-party presidential candidate, they said. ''It's just not pretty,'' said Stanley Greenberg, who does political polling for President Clinton. ''This is a period of continuing and certainly deepening cynicism.'' (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 576 words.) Aug 1

August 1995--Story--4-Senate/FosterGATE WW documents or any documents for that matter. FOSTER ITEM VANISHED, AIDE SAYS Vincent Foster's former secretary told the Senate Whitewater panel Tuesday that an index to some of the papers of President and Hillary Rodham Clinton was missing when the office was searched after Foster's suicide two years ago. The secretary, Deborah Gorham, said she had prepared the index and left it in a drawer in Foster's office. She said that when she was summoned into the office by White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum to go through the file drawers with two senior aides two days after Foste (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 387 words.) Aug 2

August 1995--Story--5-- Senate/FosterGATE WW documents -- The Heymann testimony on August 2. In the Boston Globe: EX-OFFICIAL RECALLS WARNING OVER FOSTER FILES -- WASHINGTON -- There was "a major disaster brewing," former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann says he told the White House two years ago, as he battled for law enforcement access to Vincent Foster's papers. In testimony before the Senate committee holding hearings on Whitewater, Heymann said yesterday that he was so upset with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who blocked police from seeing Foster's papers, that he asked, ''Bernie, are you hiding something?" (BOSTON GLOBE, 304 words), Aug 3

And the Knight Ridder press: TESTIMONY ON FOSTER HURTS WHITE HOUSE In testimony damaging to the White House, former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann said Wednesday that he warned the White House two years ago it had ''a major disaster brewing'' in stymieing investigators after Vincent Foster's suicide. Appearing before the Senate Whitewater panel, Heymann said he was so angry with then-White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum that he asked him: ''Bernie, are you hiding something?'' (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 495 words.) Aug 2

August 1995--Story--6--See Story 16 (July 1995) in the Washington Post where Neuwirth's testimony was negatively spun by GOP senate staffers and leaked. None of the Mainstream Media accounts picked up on his discrediting the Susan Schmidt story, it cut too close to the credibility of their own stories. REMOVAL OF WHITE HOUSE FILES DISPUTED Two White House lawyers today disputed some testimony of other witnesses in the Whitewater hearings and said they remember no details about the Clintons' personal financial papers being moved out of Vincent Foster's office. Appearing before the Senate Whitewater Committee, Stephen Neuwirth said he recalls a conversation in which his boss, White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, said he ''understood that . . . the first lady'' was ''concerned about the prospect of unfettered access'' by police to Fo (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 484 words.) Aug 3

August 1995--Story--7--And Neuwirth's testimony was still given a GOP spin by the Media. COPS WERE BLOCKED IN FOSTER CASE WITNESS DISCUSSES ROLE OF FIRST LADY. A White House attorney said Thursday he learned shortly after the suicide of deputy counsel Vincent Foster in 1993 that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton did not want police to be given ''unfettered access'' to Foster's office. The testimony of Stephen Neuwirth was greeted by Republicans on the Senate Whitewater committee as evidence the first lady may have been part of what they believe was an effort by top White House officials to obstruct the investigation of Foster's death on July 20, 1993. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 498 words.) Aug 4

FIRST LADY'S FORMER LAW FIRM CENSURED FOR S&L CONFLICTS Abbreviated version of the Post story. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 628 words.) Aug 5

August 1995--Story--9--As far as I am aware, the Boston Globe was the only newspaper that covered this story. BUSH-ERA AIDE REJECTED WHITEWATER CASE -- GOP PROSECUTOR DOUBTED THE MERITS OF ALLEGATIONS WASHINGTON -- Six months before the Clinton Justice Department rejected opening a criminal investigation into Whitewater, a Republican prosecutor had reached much the same conclusion, documents released yesterday show. The Justice Department's decision in the spring of 1993 to reject a criminal referral recommending investigation of an Arkansas savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater partner led to public outcry, charges of a coverup and the appointment of an independent (BOSTON GLOBE, 282 words), Aug 6

August 1995--Story--10--They are terrible ! They cheated on their taxes for two years ! 2-YEAR DELAY IN RIGHTING ERROR ON TAXES In March 1992, Bill Clinton, running for president, acknowledged that he and his wife, Hillary, had improperly claimed tax deductions for interest payments that had actually been made by Whitewater Development Co., not by themselves. Clinton and his aides said the couple's accountant had simply made a mistake, and he pledged to reimburse the government. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 496 words.) Aug 6

August 1995--Story--11--The L.Jean Lewis story, as only L.Jean Lewis can tell it. But see August Story 9 EXPLAINING WHITEWATER -- LEACH VOWS STRAIGHTFORWARD' HOUSE HEARINGS LEACH PROMISES STRAIGHTFORWARD' HEARINGS By Kevin Merida (WASHINGTON POST, 1,983 words ), Aug 7

[Para 9] To tell the story, Republicans have called on a group of largely glamourless witnesses -- former Federal Home Loan Bank Board examiners, inspectors general and other federal investigators. The "star witness" is expected to be L. Jean Lewis, an investigator with the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), the federal agency charged with disposing of failed S&Ls.

[Para 10] Lewis, who helped ignite the Whitewater probe from her office in Kansas City, will testify on Capitol Hill for the first time about what led the RTC to ask the federal prosecutors to pursue a criminal investigation of Madison and how those referrals in 1992 and 1993 were handled. As part of its 1993 referral, the RTC asked prosecutors to investigate whether funds from Madison were improperly diverted to the reelection campaign of then-Gov. Clinton. Republicans allege that high-level officials in Washington tried to suppress or control the referrals after Clinton became president.

August 1995--Story--12--330,000 pages of documents containing NEW material. Now, we are going to learn something NEW ! (No, we didn't --I am still trying to figure out how First Federal of Arkansas got away without being investigated while it had the largest bail-out costs -- $833 million -- of the failed Arkansas S&Ls. HOUSE TAKES UP WHITEWATER- PANEL CHIEF PROMISES NEW INFORMATION ON CLINTONS' TIES WITH MCDOUGAL With other weary House lawmakers on vacation, the House Banking and Financial Services Committee today will convene a week of Whitewater hearings that Republicans promise will explain the controversy like no other forum has thus far. It is the product of a 21-month investigation by committee Chairman Jim Leach, R-Iowa, and his staff that began when he was ranking minority member of the committee. They have unearthed 330,000 pages of documents that Leach says contain new information about the relat (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 488 words.) Aug 7

August 1995--Story--14-- Illegal, immoral, or fattening proof ? - 1 CLINTONS DEPICTED AS ACTIVE IN VENTURE -- TAX DEDUCTIONS RELATED TO WHITEWATER CITED By Susan Schmidt -- House Republicans yesterday laid out their most exhaustive case thus far to try to prove that President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton improperly benefited from their relationship with former Arkansas S&L owner James B. McDougal, their partner in the Whitewater real estate venture. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,298 words ), Aug 8

August 1995--Story--15--Illegal, immoral, or fattening proof ? - 2 LAWMAKER VOWS TO DETAIL CLINTON'S WHITEWATER GAINS The chairman of the House Banking Committee said Monday he would show this week that President Clinton benefited from the now-defunct Arkansas real estate venture known as Whitewater. Opening a week of hearings into Whitewater, Chairman Jim Leach, R-Iowa, also accused Clinton of bestowing favors on an ailing Little Rock savings and loan, Madison Guaranty, to which he had ties when he was governor of Arkansas. ''Whitewater is about the arrogance of power - conflicts of interest that are se (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 406 words.) Aug 8

WHITEWATER WITNESSES SAY INVESTIGATION WAS THWARTED. Appearing before a bitterly divided House committee, the three federal regulators whose work led to the Whitewater investigation testified today that top government officials thwarted their probe at nearly every turn. ''This committee should know that I believe there was a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation,'' Resolution Trust Corp. investigator Jean Lewis told the House Banking Committee. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 400 words.) Aug 8

As reported in the Boston Globe: WHITEWATER INTRUSIONS ARE ALLEGED AT HEARING -- INVESTIGATOR SAYS SHE WAS SUSPENDED -- WASHINGTON -- The investigator who allegedly unearthed the purported banking fraud at the heart of the Whitewater affair told a House committee yesterday she has had to overcome "a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" her work by federal officials. Jean Lewis, an investigator for the Resolution Trust Corp., the government agency in charge of cleaning up the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, testified that she was removed from the case of Madison Guaranty Savings and (BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Aug 9

WITNESS SAYS PROBE WAS BLOCKED -- WHITEWATER EXAMINER SAYS CONCERTED EFFORT' THWARTED HER -- By Kevin Merida and Susan Schmidt - Front page. The federal investigator whose work helped launch the independent counsel's ongoing Whitewater probe told a House committee yesterday that there was "a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" her findings at high levels of the federal government. (WASHINGTON POST, 2,243 words ), Aug 9

S&L PROBE WAS HAMPERED, WHITEWATER PANEL IS TOLD INVESTIGATION: BANK EXAMINER SAYS SHE WAS LET GO AFTER CITING 'RAMPANT FRAUD.' A federal bank examiner who looked into the failure of an Arkansas savings and loan owned by a former business partner of President Clinton's told a House committee Tuesday that she was removed from her job because she aggressively urged a criminal investigation of those involved. ''We uncovered rampant bank fraud, including check kiting,'' Jean Lewis, a Kansas City-based investigator for the Resolution Trust Corp., said of her examination of old check stubs from the Madison Guaranty Savings & Loa (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 452 words.) Aug 9

GOP SEEKING COVER-UP BY MRS. CLINTON -- WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans, nearing the end of four weeks of Whitewater hearings, redoubled their attempts yesterday to show that Hillary Rodham Clinton led a cover-up in the hours after the suicide of her friend and lawyer, Vincent Foster. The committee's star witness, the former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, dismissed the suggestion through a long day of testimony. Nussbaum told the Senate Whitewater Committee that it was he, and not Mrs. Clinton, who made a decision t(BOSTON GLOBE, 877 words), Aug 10

NUSSBAUM RE-ENACTS SEARCH OF FOSTER'S BRIEFCASE Under an intense cross-examination, former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum re-enacted his original search of Vincent Foster's briefcase today, trying to explain to skeptical senators how he overlooked an anguished, torn-up note inside it. For a second day, the Senate Whitewater Committee zeroed in on Nussbaum's conduct during a much-disputed search of Foster's office July 22, 1993, two days after Foster killed himself. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 698 words.) Aug 10

EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE OFFERS STOUT DEFENSE OF ACTIONS FOSTER SUICIDE: DATA KEPT SAFE, NUSSBAUM DECLARES. In a spirited appearance before the Senate Whitewater committee, former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum - the clear heavy in this summer's hearings - denied doing anything improper with Vincent Foster's files after his suicide two years ago. Nussbaum said no records were destroyed and that he had no regrets. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 616 words.) Aug 10

August 1995--Story--19--This was the tape L.Jean Lewis secretly recorded during a discussion with April Breslaw with a new tape recorder she had purchased a week before. WHITEWATER TAPE PLAYED -- RTC CHIEFS WANTED LAND VENTURE ABSOLVED By Kevin Merida -- Like the pivotal scene in a courtroom drama, it was the most striking moment of this week's House Whitewater hearings: A 25-minute audiotape was played yesterday in which a government attorney reviewing the investigation of a failed Arkansas thrift hinted at the probe's political sensitivity among her superiors in Washington. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,978 words ), Aug 10

August 1995--Story--20--RoseGATE HEARING PUTS FOCUS ON ROSE LAW PRACTICE -- CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST CASES CITED BY GOP By Susan Schmidt -- House Republicans turned a harsh spotlight on the failings of Little Rock's Rose Law Firm yesterday, calling it a case study in conflicts of interest for work it did for the federal government. They released new documents to flesh out Hillary Rodham Clinton's role in representing an S&L regulated by her husband's gubernatorial administration. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,230 words ), Aug 11

August 1995--Story--21-- WHITEWATER STILL AN UNSOLVED PUZZLE-- ANALYSIS: AS HEARINGS WIND DOWN, THE PUBLIC SEES IT AS A STALE SAGA. At times, the Whitewater hearings have sounded like a suspenseful summer page-turner. A handsome White House lawyer working on the president's family finances kills himself. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 650 words.) Aug 11

August 1995--Story--22-- UPSET GOP WRITES GUIDE ON HOW TO RUN HEARINGS. Some House Republicans, upset at bad reviews on the Waco and Whitewater hearings, have come up with a two-page primer on how to conduct hearings. Evidently, it made the rounds among House GOP staffers last week. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 224 words.) Aug 12

August 1995--Story--23--REPUBLICANS' DIVE INTO WHITEWATER SCORES SOME POINTS -- GOP MAKES USE OF DUAL HEARINGS TO ATTACK WHITE HOUSE CREDIBILITY - By Kevin Merida -- For the past three years, "Whitewater" has snaked in and out of the limelight, causing President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton periodic distress but leaving the public, for the most part, bored or baffled. (WASHINGTON POST, 640 words ), Aug 14

August 1995--Story--24-- IN OTHER ACTION The Whitewater prosecutor has won a six-month extension of the special grand jury now investigating a land-development project invested in by President and Hillary Rodham Clinton. U.S. District Judge Stephen Reasoner granted the extension, saying Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr made a compelling argument. With the extension, the jury can meet through March 23, 1996. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 117 words.) Aug 17

August 1995--Story--25-- 3 CLINTON ASSOCIATES INDICTED IN ARKANSAS Published on 08/18/95, Article 169 of 243 found. James and Susan McDougal, President and Hillary Rodham Clinton's business partners in the failed Whitewater real estate deal, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Arkansas on Thursday and charged with bank fraud and other felonies. Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who succeeded Clinton and served as his lieutenant governor, was also named in the 21-count indictment, sought by independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Tucker had already been indicted in the Whitewater matter on other charges. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 717 words.) Aug 18

August 1995--Story--26-- ARKANSAS LEADER DENIES CHARGES IN WHITEWATER CASE Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas told a judge Monday that he was not guilty of fraud, conspiracy and making false statements in obtaining millions of dollars of federally backed loans. Two co-conspirators in that indictment, James McDougal and his ex-wife Susan, said they will also plead not guilty this week. The McDougals were partners with President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Whitewater land venture from 1978 until 1992. During part of that time, the McDougals also operated Madison Guaran (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 127 words.) Aug 29

August 1995--Story--27---MCDOUGAL DENIES 19 CHARGES IN WHITEWATER CASE James McDougal, former business partner of President Clinton and his wife and a central figure in the Whitewater scandal, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Little Rock, Ark., to a 19-count indictment charging him with bank, wire and mail fraud. Later, McDougal denounced the indictment and said a trial would show that he and the Clintons are innocent. The judge at the U.S. Magistrate Court in Little Rock accepted McDougal's petition and appointed local attorney Sam Heuer to represent McDougal. Heuer, wh (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 204 words.) Aug 30

September 1995--Story--1-- NOT-GUILTY PLEA GIVEN IN WHITEWATER CASE In Little Rock, Ark., Susan McDougal, a partner with President and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Whitewater real estate development, pleaded not guilty Thursday to an eight-count indictment brought by special prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr. The indictment charges that she misapplied a $300,000 loan obtained from an Arkansas business development company, using the money to keep the struggling Whitewater project afloat. The man who granted the loan, David Hale of Little Rock, has charged that President Clinto (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 121 words.) Sep 1

September 1995--Story--2--FOSTER'S WIDOW SAYS DEPRESSION PROMPTED SUICIDE Vincent Foster's widow investigated his death and is certain he committed suicide out of depression - and Whitewater had nothing to do with it, she told the New Yorker. In her first interview since the White House deputy counsel died July 20, 1993, Lisa Foster said, ''I never thought he'd been murdered. The worst possible thing had happened, but it was like everything came together.'' After reviewing her husband's records and files, she determined that he had taken his own life because he was dep (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 183 words.) Sep 4

September 1995--Story--3--Judge Wood's decision would lead to a right-wing smear of the judge in the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a smear that would cause the judge to be dismissed by a Republican-controlled court of appeals from the McDougal-Tucker case in early 1996. ARKANSAS GOVERNOR FREE OF 1 OF 2 INDICTMENTS A federal judge Tuesday dismissed one of two indictments against Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker on grounds that the prosecutor, Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, exceeded his authority in bringing the case. U.S. District Judge Henry Woods threw out a June tax fraud and conspiracy indictment of Tucker and two other men involved with him in a cable television venture, saying the case ''bears no relation whatsoever'' to the questions Starr was charged with investigating. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 366 words.) Sep 6

September 1995--Story--5-Starr/FosterGATE-suicide. 2 YEARS LATER, SITE SEALED OFF WHERE FOSTER DIED In the suicide inquiry that refuses to go away, the U.S. Park Service has sealed off the roadside park where Vincent Foster, a White House counsel, was found dead more than two years ago. Numerous investigations have concluded Foster died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Virginia's Fort Marcy Park. But FBI Agent Jim Farley said the search at the park had been ordered by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who has been revisiting the Foster suicide as part of his Whitewater investigation. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 314 words.) Sep 14

September 1995--Story--6-- L. Jean Lewis leaves the RTC (with all of her assigned missions completed). S&L INVESTIGATOR QUITS RTC JOB -- The government savings and loan investigator whose work helped prompt the Whitewater inquiry quit her job yesterday with a final shot at the bosses she accused of impeding her probe. L. Jean Lewis' resigned from the Resolution Trust Corp. a month after she testified before Congress that her supervisors engaged in a "concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate" the Whitewater probe. In her resignation letter, Lewis cited "mounting frustrations" and accused RTC managers of creating "basel(BOSTON GLOBE, 107 words), Sep 19

October 1995--Story--1-- WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR PROTESTS SENATE PROBE Rejecting a plea from the Whitewater prosecutor, the Senate will resume its investigation of the Clintons' real estate venture, with public hearings late this month on how the White House and federal officials handled the controversy. In a strong signal that his criminal probe of President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton is far from over, Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr unsuccessfully urged the Senate to limit the scope of its inquiry. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 125 words.) Oct 3

October 1995--Story--3--Starr/FosterGATE - suicide CORONER TO REVIEW FOSTER'S DEATH -- Whitewater prosecutors have hired the chief medical examiner of San Diego to review findings in the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. Dr. Brian Blackbourne said yesterday he would be meeting with Whitewater prosecutors in Washington and that he is weeks away from reaching any conclusions about the Foster matter. Blackbourne joins Dr. Henry Lee, a forensic scientist with the Connecticut State Police crime lab who testified at the O. J. Simpson trial. Lee was hired by Whitewater (BOSTON GLOBE, 110 words), Oct 21

October 1995--Story--4--Senate/FosterGATE-WW documents D'AMATO REVIVES QUERIES ON FOSTER OFFICE -- WASHINGTON -- The Senate Whitewater Committee plans to call Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff and a longtime friend for further questioning about White House restrictions that kept police from searching Vincent Foster's office. After a hearing yesterday, committee chairman Alfonse M. D'Amato, Republican of New York, said the committee might consider calling Clinton to testify, depending on what witnesses Margaret Williams and Susan Thomases say(BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Oct 26

WHITE HOUSE HOLDING BACK WHITEWATER DATA, GOP SAYS Republicans on the Senate Whitewater committee said Wednesday that the Clinton administration had delayed turning over potentially incriminating telephone records and had shredded Treasury Department documents that could relate to their investigation. Chairman Alfonse D'Amato, D-N.Y., said the committee would take the unusual step today of voting to subpoena the White House for records it is seeking. At a special meeting, D'Amato outlined new information that he said casts doubt on the truthfulnes (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 671 words.) Oct 26

October 1995--Story--5--Senate/FosterGATE-WW documents -- in case you missed it the day before. WHITEWATER PANEL DEMANDS RECORDS -- The Senate Whitewater committee voted Thursday to issue 49 subpoenas for records from President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and a variety of other Washington and Arkansas figures involved in the investigation. Avoiding a potential constitutional clash, the panel's Republicans acquiesced to the Democrats and decided to defer issuing a subpoena for the Clinton lawyers' notes of the independent counsel's interrogations of the Clintons. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 318 words.) Oct 27

November 1995--Story--1--Starr/FosterGATE - suicide PASSERBY IS CALLED IN FOSTER PROBE -- WASHINGTON -- A passerby who said he was at the park where Vincent Foster's body was found has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury as Whitewater prosecutors reexamine the deputy White House counsel's death. The witness, Patrick Knowlton, said that when he arrived at a Virginia park on the afternoon Foster died, he saw an empty parked car with Arkansas license plates -- but a different car than the one Foster was driving that day(BOSTON GLOBE, 337 words), Nov 1

November 1995--Story--2--Starr/FosterGATE - suicide --meanwhile in Massachusetts. STATE DISPUTES ROLE OF CONSULTANT -- PEMBROKE HANDWRITING ANALYST STUDIED FOSTER SUICIDE NOTE -- The work of a self-described handwriting consultant who concluded that a White House aide's suicide note was a forgery had been disputed earlier by investigators in Attorney General Scott Harshbarger's office, sources said yesterday. A spokesman for Harshbarger denied that Ronald H. Rice of New England Legal Investigations has ongoing ties to the office. During a well-attended press conference last week, Rice announced his findings concerning Vincent Foster's suicide note and described him(BOSTON GLOBE, 516 words), Nov 2

How could anyone know the content of those phone calls? TWO OF HILLARY CLINTON'S AIDES CLASH WITH SENATORS ON WHITEWATER PANEL. Two of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's close associates repeatedly clashed with Republican senators Thursday in claiming only vague recollections of phone conversations in the hours after the death of White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster. Senate Whitewater Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., and his GOP colleagues declared that, in spite of previous denials, a cluster of 17 phone calls suggests Clinton personally gave orders to remove financial documents from Foster's office after (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 552 words.) Nov 3

November 1995--Story--4--We once more return to TreasuryGATE. The Fiske report of June 30, 1994 had found nothing illegal or unethical in Treasury -White House contacts. BENTSEN DEFENDS HIS ACTIONS ON WHITEWATER. - Republican members of the Senate Whitewater Committee charged Tuesday that former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen compromised an investigation last year into allegedly improper contacts between his department and the White House. Bentsen, while denying the charges, acknowledged that he sent confidential transcripts of testimony in the ethics probe to then-White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler - at Cutler's request. Bentsen said he did so only to help Cutler prepare for his own appearance before cong (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 489 words.) Nov 8

November 1995--Story--6--Mea culpa! Cutler EX-ADVISER CONFESSES AN ERROR ON WHITEWATER -- WASHINGTON -- Confronted with a letter from the government's chief ethics officer, the former presidential lawyer, Lloyd Cutler, conceded yesterday that ''I may have transgressed" when testifying that a Whitewater inquiry had cleared the White House of improprieties. Questioned by Republicans on the Senate Whitewater Committee, Cutler said his 1994 testimony on Capitol Hill had been imprecise, but not intentionally misleading(BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Nov 10

November 1995--Story--7---The Mainstream Media and the Foster suicide. DOUBTS ABOUT FOSTER DEATH STILL ECHOING 2 YEARS LATER The keening voices of doubt fill the nightly airwaves, bombard news organizations and echo through countless chat rooms along the information superhighway. Why was the fatal bullet never found? Why did the .38-caliber revolver dangling from the dead man's right hand bear no fingerprints - neither his nor anyone else's? Wasn't it odd, given the violent nature of his death, that both arms were extended neatly at his sides? And what of the first observation by paramedics that the victim had su (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 742 words.) Nov 11

November 1995--Story--8--Heuer got that right. WHITEWATER PANEL CALLED 'MOCKERY' -- Calling the Senate Whitewater Committee's work "the biggest mockery since the McCarthy era," the lawyer for President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton's former Whitewater partner refused yesterday to be questioned by Republican investigators on the panel. Counsel Robert Giuffra sought to interview attorney Sam Heuer about all his contacts concerning David Hale, a former Little Rock judge who has made allegations against President Clinton. Heuer, who represents former Arkansas savings and loan (BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Nov 15

November 1995--Story--9--"all three are accused of loan fraud in a case not directly [or indirectly] tied to the Whitewater real estate development." Now, read the headline. CHARGES IN WHITEWATER CASE STAND A federal district judge in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday upheld the indictments of two of President Clinton's partners in the Whitewater real estate project. In addition to James McDougal and Susan McDougal, the indictment also charges Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. All three are accused of loan fraud in a case not directly tied to the Whitewater real estate development. The charges were returned in August by a special Whitewater grand jury at the behest of independent counsel Kenneth Starr. All th (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 149 words.) Nov 16

November 1995--Story--12-- Susan Schmidt in defense of L. Jean Lewis (and the Washington Post). WHITEWATER PROBER ACCUSED OF PREJUDICE AGAINST CLINTON -- DEMOCRATS' COUNSEL CITES DISPARAGING LETTER By Susan Schmidt (WASHINGTON POST, 849 words ), Nov 30 Front page.

[Para 1] Sometimes in war you have to burn the village to save it.

[Para 2] Richard Ben-Veniste, special counsel for Democrats on the SenateWhitewater committee, risked some heavy collateral damage yesterday inorder to cast doubt on the fairness of L. Jean Lewis, the savings andloan investigator who initiated the Whitewater criminal probe

[Para 3] For more than a year Democrats have tried to discredit Lewis as a way of countering Republican efforts to portray her as a hero who pursued Whitewater despite resistance and pressure from her superiors at the Resolution Trust Corp. It was Lewis who dissected the books of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and uncovered enough misdeeds to send criminal referrals to the U.S. attorney's office in Little Rock that named President and Hillary Rodham Clinton as "possible beneficiaries" of illegal acts.

[Para 4] Trying to establish that Lewis is anti-Clinton and was driven by political motives, Ben-Veniste yesterday produced part of a personal letter Lewis wrote to a friend in February 1992, a month before she embarked on the Whitewater probe In it, she referred to then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton. as a "lying bastard."

[Para 5] But context is everything. To pull off that hit on Lewis'scredibility, Ben-Veniste had to dredge up Gennifer Flowers's embarrassing claims during the campaign that she had an affair withClinton when he was Arkansas governor. Lewis's letter, which she inadvertently gave the committee on a subpoenaed computer disk, offhandedly referred to Clinton and the then-current Flowers allegations in a discussion of a relative:

[Para 7] Republican senators saw an opening wide enough for a convoy.

[Para 10}But Ben-Veniste and committee Democrats sought to show Lewis had a bias against Clinton and was determined to draw the Clintons into her probe of the failed Madison S&L, which was owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner, James B. McDougal. Committee Democrats also said Lewis neglected the investigation of other financial institutions, where taxpayer losses were much larger,to spend much of her time on the relatively small Madison case.

[Para 11] Lewis said her supervisors made her assignments. In addition to the personal letter, Ben-Veniste cited material from the agent in charge of the FBI field office in Little Rock, whose notes on telephone conversations show Lewis frequently checking on the progress of her recommendation in the fall of 1992 that Madison be subjected to a full-scale criminal probe. The agent, Steve Irons, also wrote that Lewis thought the Madison investigation could "alter history" -- a comment she told the committee she probably meant sarcastically. Lewis denied any bias against the Clintons. She has made no secret ofthe fact she is a conservative Republican. She is always conscious of her political leanings, she said, and in the Whitewater investigation was careful to hold herself "to a higher standard" than usual to ensure she was being impartial.

[Para 12] Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) revived questions that House Democrats raised a year ago about a contract arrangement Lewis entered into for T-shirt logos that spell out the acronym B-I-T-C-H, for "Boys, I'mTaking Charge Here," and "Bill, I've Taken Charge. Hillary." Boxer said the shirts denigrate the Clintons. Lewis disagreed, saying she admires the first lady as a strong personality.

[Para 14] Lewis, who recently resigned from the RTC, drafted the criminal referrals that alleged fraud and other wrongdoing by McDougal and the current Arkansas governor, Jim Guy Tucker (D), and detailed how funds from Madison made their way into the Whitewater account and into one of Clinton's gubernatorial campaigns. Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr is continuing to investigate matters raised in those referrals, and to date has obtained three guilty pleas and three indictments based on information Lewis helped develop.

The Boston Globe: WHITEWATER INVESTIGATOR CHALLENGED AS GOP CONSERVATIVE-- WASHINGTON -- The federal investigator who started the Whitewater investigation acknowledged yesterday that she is a conservative Republican, after senators confronted her with a letter in which she used an epithet in describing President Clinton. The investigator, Jean Lewis, got a rough reception from the Senate Whitewater Committee as the Democrats' lawyer, Richard Ben-Veniste, produced a 1992 letter from Lewis to a friend in which Lewis called Clinton a "lying bastard." (BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Nov 30

The Knight Ridder press: WHITEWATER WITNESS CALLED CLINTON A LIAR In a highly unusual attempt to defend President Clinton against Whitewater-related charges, Senate Democrats made public a portion of a letter Wednesday in which a government investigator offhandedly accused Clinton of lying when he denied having an affair with Gennifer Flowers. Democrats on the Senate Whitewater investigating committee produced the letter excerpt during a hearing in an effort to discredit Jean Lewis, an investigator for the Resolution Trust Corp. who has accused the administration (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 511 words.) Nov 30

December 1995--Story--1--The D'Amato Documents -- Act 1, Scene 2 -- Don Alfonso demands the documents. REPUBLICANS SEEK TO QUERY FORMER CLINTON ATTORNEY WASHINGTON -- Republicans on the Senate Whitewater Committee said yesterday that they plan to question the former personal attorney of President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton after it was disclosed that he reviewed Vincent Foster's papers in the White House family residence. The Republicans also said they want to recall -- for a third round of questioning -- Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, and longtime friend, New York attorney Susan Thomases(BOSTON GLOBE, 316 words), Dec 1

December 1995--Story--2--Come clean Hillary! You worked for Madison for 12 hours, not the 6 hours you claimed! GOP QUESTIONS S&L'S PAYMENTS TO HILLARY CLINTON WASHINGTON -- Payments to Hillary Rodham Clinton from her Whitewater partner's savings and loan came under scrutiny yesterday, with Republican senators questioning her previous statements that most of her law firm's work for the savings and loan had been done by others. Meanwhile, the US attorney who oversaw the prosecution of a key accuser of President Clinton acknowledged that the Justice Department urged her to step down from the case because she had political ties to Clinton and to A(BOSTON GLOBE, 238 words), Dec 2

FIRST LADY ACCUSED OF DECEIT BY GOP WHITEWATER ROLE SAID TO BE GREATER Senate Republicans accused Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday of making misleading public statements that minimize the extent of the legal work she did for the now-defunct Arkansas savings and loan owned by James McDougal, her partner in the real estate development known as Whitewater. Republicans on the Senate Whitewater investigating committee made public a summary of bills that the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, Ark., submitted to Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan for legal services rendered to (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 492 words.) Dec 2

[Para 4] Sarbanes said he welcomed any review the ethics committee deems appropriate. "Counsel acted properly in this matter, which involved a disk from a government computer used by Jean Lewis at work," he said in a statement released by this office.

[Para 5] Lewis's letter was written to a friend in February 1992, a month before she was assigned to investigate the failure of a savings and loan owned by President Clinton's Whitewater business partner. In it, Lewis compares a relative's propensity to lie to that of the most "astute politicians." In an aside, she refers to Gennifer Flowers's then-current allegations that she had had an affair with Clinton and calls Clinton, who denied the charges, a "lying bastard."

December 1995--Story--4--Irons is also the FBI agent who gave testimony suggesting the L.Jean Lewis had perjured herself in testifying before the Congress --another aspect of the Whitewater Smear Campaign not covered by the Mainstream Media. FBI AGENT REPORTS WHITEWATER TALE -- Fearing that the Clinton administration might interfere in a Whitewater- related probe, an FBI agent warned his superiors back in Washington about a rumored effort to kill the investigation, a Senate hearing was told yesterday. Agent Steven Irons testified that he was informed by an assistant US attorney in Little Rock, Ark., that local lawyer Richard Mays had gone to Washington in August 1993 "to meet with unknown officials to attempt to have the investigation quashed." Irons outlined the infor(BOSTON GLOBE, 133 words), Dec 6

December 1995--Story--5--The D'Amato Documents-- Act 1, Scene 3 -- Don Alfonso makes an offer that cannot be refused. WHITEWATER PANEL SUBPOENA EXPECTED Paving the way for a significant constitutional and political clash,the head of the Senate Whitewater committee announced Wednesday that the panel would issue a subpoena for the notes of a 1993 meeting where President Clinton's top lawyers and other officials discussed Whitewater. The chairman, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., said the subpoena would be formally voted on today, a result of the recent refusal by two of Clinton's closest advisers - Bruce Lindsey and William Kennedy - to answer questions abou (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 113 words.) Dec 7

December 1995--Story--6-- The D'Amato Documents --Intermezzo--A soprano solo by Hillaria --"Subpoena Me! Subpoena Me!" WHITEWATER PANEL TO SUBPOENA NOTES CONSTITUTIONAL BATTLE IS LIKELY OVER GUARDED DATA Published on 12/09/95, Article 29 of 243 found. The Senate Whitewater committee voted Friday to subpoena meeting notes the White House had sought fiercely to withhold under the attorney-client privilege, paving the way for a constitutional battle likely to be waged in court. Voting 10-8 on party lines, the panel decided to seek notes of a Nov.5, 1993, meeting between White House aides and private attorneys representing President and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The meeting's purpose, according to a White House official, was for White House official (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 425 words.) Dec 9

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Encore by Don Alfonso and his comrades. WHITEWATER PANEL TO SUBPOENA NOTES CONSTITUTIONAL BATTLE IS LIKELY OVER GUARDED The Senate Whitewater committee voted Friday to subpoena meeting notes the White House had sought fiercely to withhold under the attorney-client privilege, paving the way for a constitutional battle likely to be waged in court. Voting 10-8 on party lines, the panel decided to seek notes of a Nov.5, 1993, meeting between White House aides and private attorneys representing President and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The meeting's purpose, according to a White House official, was for White House official (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 425 words.) Dec 9

December 1995--Story--7-- The D'Amato Documents --Act 2, Scene 1 -- Don Alfonso's complains to Don Davido (a close friend and confidant) D'AMATO ALLEGES WHITEWATER COVERUP The head of a Senate investigating panel charged Sunday that President Clinton's lawyers met Nov. 5, 1993, as part of ''an attempt to suppress the legitimate investigation'' by federal officials of the Whitewater case. The allegation, voiced by Sen. Alphonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., on ABC's ''This Week with David Brinkley,'' is the closest Republicans have come to accusing Clinton and his aides of participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 88 words.) Dec 11

December 1995--Story--8--In another subplot to the opera. CLINTON'S LAWYER, GOP SPAR OVER WHITEWATER DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans suggested yesterday that three of Vincent Foster's files might have been hurriedly removed from the White House after his death because they reflected wrongdoing at the savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater partners. But the Clintons' personal attorney, David Kendall, said he thinks the material came from elsewhere, not from Foster's White House office(BOSTON GLOBE, 344 words), Dec 12

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December 1995--Story--9-- The D'Amato Documents -Act 2, Scene 2 -- Don Alfonso sings the famous tenor solo "El fumo d'pistole" -- "the Smoking Gun" WHITE HOUSE AIDES DISMISS WHITEWATER 'SMOKING GUN' The chairman of the Senate Whitewater investigating committee, Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., declared Monday that he had found a ''smoking gun''demonstrating wrongdoing by advisers to President Clinton. But the White House quickly dismissed it as a ''pop gun.'' At the center of this politically charged exchange were three Whitewater-related file folders that once belonged to the late White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster, who allegedly used them during the 1992 presidential campaign to answer alle (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 501 words.) Dec 12

December 1995--Story--10-- The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 3 --the Evil Kings sings "Privilegia! Privilegia!" CLINTONS INVOKE EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE WHITEWATER AFFAIR MOVES ONTO NEW LEVEL OF DISPUTE Invoking a claim of executive privilege for the first time in the Whitewater affair, the White House refused Tuesday to comply with a subpoena from a Senate investigative committee and accused committee chairman Alphonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., of provoking a constitutional confrontation for political gain. In a press statement and legal papers issued late Tuesday by the White House, officials said the Senate Whitewater committee had no right to notes kept by former White House Associate Counsel William (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 460 words.) Dec 13

and the Media reacts . . . . .WHITEWATER'S SMELL IS BECOMING FISHY ARMED WITH improperly obtained warnings about criminal references involving the president and Mrs. Clinton, four federal employees went to consult with three privately hired Clinton lawyers on Nov. 5, 1993. One of the private lawyers was Denver's James Lyons, whose ''report'' during the 1992 campaign threw most reporters off the Whitewater scandal's scent; five months before, Lyons was a caller to, and scheduled to be a visitor of, Vincent Foster, at the time of his apparent suicide. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 656 words.) Dec 13

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December 1995--Story--11-- The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 3 --Don Alfonso and his comrades vow to seek help. GOP VOWS TO UP ANTE ON WHITEWATER FILES Raising the stakes in their confrontation with President Clinton, Republicans on the Senate Whitewater panel said Wednesday that they would order the White House to turn over more documents and vowed to move swiftly to gain the support of the full Senate. Last week, the White House forced a constitutional showdown with the Whitewater committee after refusing to comply with a demand for information about a 1993 Whitewater meeting involving Clinton's senior lawyers and aides. The White House has sai (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 514 words.) Dec 14

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the Evil King's motives (offstage voices) PRESIDENT RELYING ON TWIN SHIELDS LAWYER-CLIENT PRIVACY, 'EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE' CITED The White House has asserted that notes of a critical Whitewater meeting are protected by two very different legal shields. Its primary defense is the attorney-client privilege. One of the most unqualified of legal protections, it says that written or oral communications between a lawyer and client are not subject to outside inquiry, even by courts. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 314 words.) Dec 14

December 1995--Story--12-- The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 3--Don Alfonso and his comrades hold fast! COMPROMISE ON NOTES REJECTED -- SENATE WHITEWATER PANEL VOTES TO ENFORCE SUBPOENA RESISTED BY WHITE HOUSE By Susan Schmidt -- The Senate Whitewater committee rejected a last-minute compromise proposed by the Clinton administration and voted yesterday to enforce a subpoena for notes that the White House contends are protected by the attorney-client privilege. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,007 words ), Dec 15

December 1995--Story--13-- The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 4 --The Evil King caves a little bit. WHITEWATER COMPROMISE OFFERED PROPOSAL: PRIVATE LEGAL NOTES WILL BE TURNED OVER TO HEAD OFF COSTLY COURT BATTLE. The White House offered Friday night to drop most of the conditions it set on turning over disputed Whitewater documents to the Senate, including its insistence that the meeting in which the notes were taken was protected by President Clinton's attorney-client privilege. The proposal was made hours after the Senate Whitewater Committee voted to ask the full Senate to go to court to enforce a subpoena for the notes taken by a former White House lawyer at a confidential 1993 meeting. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 544 words.) Dec 16

December 1995--Story--14---- "The D'Amato Documents" flack speaks loudly off-stage to tell the audience what is actually going on. This is repeated at five-minute intervals to make sure the story sinks in. WHITEWATER EVOKES ECHOES OF WATERGATE -- Slowly, very slowly, the mainstream press is beginning to awaken from its long hibernation on a series of events and actions collectively known as, but by no means limited to, Whitewater. As the public begins to learn more about what the Clintons and their cronies did and when they did it, highly combustible words have started to creep into news accounts and editorials. They are ''stonewalling,'' ''cover-up,'' and, most recently, a pair that gained potency in the days of Richard Nixon and the Water (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 488 words.) Dec 17

December 1995--Story--15-- The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 5-- Don Alfonso agrees to a counter offer. D'AMATO ACCEPTS CLINTON DEMAND The head of the Senate Whitewater investigating committee agreed Saturday to a White House demand that eventually could help resolve a dispute over presidential notes the committee has subpoenaed. But Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., said his committee still intended for the moment to proceed with plans to go to court to challenge President Clinton's refusal to turn over the notes. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 590 words.) Dec 17

WHITEWATER REPORT: GOOD NEWS FOR CLINTON Abbreviated version of the Boston Globe story --I don't know how it got past the Knight Ridder editors. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 158 words.) Dec 18

December 1995--Story--17--"Handwritten notes" NOTES CITE HILLARY CLINTON'S S&L WORK THEY SUGGEST A WIDER ROLE THAN ACKNOWLEDGED Handwritten notes made during the 1992 presidential campaign by Clinton confidante Susan Thomases suggest that Hillary Rodham Clinton did far more work for Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan than she has previously acknowledged and that her billing records - which are now missing - were then in existence. The notes were subpoenaed by the Senate Whitewater committee, which questioned Thomases about them Monday. She had been summoned before the panel for a third time to answer questions about newly dis (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 630 words.) Dec 19

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December 1995--Story--18-- The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 6 - The Evil King seeks a mediator --Don Starrio (a secret ally of Don Alfonso). WHITE HOUSE REPORTS A DEAL WITH WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR WASHINGTON -- The White House reached an important agreement with Whitewater prosecutors yesterday but it was not enough yet to break an impasse over the release of a presidential aide's disputed notes. As the Senate neared a vote today to challenge President Clinton in court over the notes, presidential aides secured a "no-waiver" agreement with Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr on releasing the notes to him(BOSTON GLOBE, 404 words), Dec 20

December 1995--Story--19--The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 6 But another ally, Gingrichio, sings "No! No! No! (you will screw up the scenario we have so carefully constructed) " HOUSE REJECTS DEAL ON WHITEWATER NOTES LEAD INVESTIGATOR HAD OK'D BARGAIN Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr agreed Tuesday to accept the notes of a controversial Whitewater meeting under strict legal conditions set down by the White House, but the proposed deal was rejected by the House committees investigating the scandal. The surprise refusal of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., to accept the proposed agreement means the Senate will be called on to vote today to enforce a subpoena for the notes of a Nov. 5, 1993, meeting of seven lawyers who were working on the ca (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 333 words.) Dec 20

December 1995--Story--20 -- The D'Amato Documents--Act 2, Scene 7 -- The Evil King is backed into a corner. SENATE VOTES TO ENFORCE SUBPOENA FOR WHITE HOUSE WHITEWATER NOTES By Guy Gugliotta The Senate voted last night to enforce a subpoena for White House documents sought by the Senate Whitewater committee despite last-ditch efforts by the Clinton administration to reach a compromise to turn over the documents and avoid a politically embarrassing court battle. (WASHINGTON POST, 994 words ), Dec 21

December 1995--Story-- 21-- The D'Amato Documents --Act 3, Scene 1 --Don Alfonso WINS! -- - --- - Sings "Gottcha, Gottcha, Gottcha." ------ACCORD REACHED ON WHITEWATER -- PAPERS TO BE GIVEN; LEGAL RIGHTS KEPT -- WASHINGTON -- President Clinton and congressional Republicans agreed yesterday on a plan under which the White House will release notes from a 1993 meeting on the Whitewater matter, defusing a constitutional confrontation and averting a court battle. White House negotiators struck the agreement with Congress late yesterday and promised to release the notes today to New York Republican Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato and the Senate Whitewater committee that he heads(BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Dec 22

CLINTON TO RELEASE NOTES HOUSE LEADERS, WHITE HOUSE AGREE ON WHITEWATER MATERIAL Published on 12/22/95, Article 10 of 243 found. White House lawyers and House leaders forged an agreement Thursday that opens the way for President Clinton to release notes of a Nov. 5, 1993, meeting of presidential lawyers that has been portrayed as a pivotal event in the Whitewater saga. The pact ends a constitutional confrontation between the legislative and executive branches that has given Republicans an opportunity to fan the flames of the long-simmering scandal. White House officials said the notes would be made public soon, perhaps as e (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 498 words.) Dec 22

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WHITEWATER NOTES SKETCHY ON MEETING -- BOTH SIDES SAY PAPERS BUTTRESS THEIR CLAIMS By Susan Schmidt and Charles R. Babcock The much-argued over notes of a 1993 Whitewater meeting, released by the White House yesterday, provided sketchy but intriguing references to Hillary Rodham Clinton's work for a defunct Arkansas savings and loan and to records belonging to the Arkansas law firm where she once was a partner. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,025 words ), Dec 23

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WHITE HOUSE RELEASES NOTES ON WHITEWATER -- WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers investigating the Whitewater affair reacted skeptically to 12 handwritten pages of lawyer's notes released by the White House yesterday, asserting they raised more questions than they answered. "I can understand why the White House would not want these records to be let out," said New York Republican Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato, chairman of the special committee investigating Whitewater, in a first reaction to the notes(BOSTON GLOBE, 925 words), Dec 23

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December 1995--Story--24--The D'Amato Documents --off stage, the Mainstream Media does the best it can with the disappointing documents. WHITE HOUSE RELEASES NEW BATCH OF WHITEWATER NOTES SENATE SUBPOENA SOUGHT PAGES. On Nov. 5, 1993, seven of President Clinton's lawyers - including four White House employees - vowed during a strategy session to make a concerted effort to ''find out what's going on'' in a confidential government investigation of the then-emerging Whitewater controversy, according to notes of the meeting made public Friday by the White House. The notes, produced in response to a Senate subpoena, neither confirmed nor disproved Republican allegations that the meeting was part of an effort to (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 579 words.) Dec 23

December 1995--Story---25--The Mainstream Media was lethargic all right! But not in the way the article suggests. MEDIA FAILS TO PROBE WHITEWATER DISCREPANCIES -- EUGENE McCarthy once described the political press corps this way: ''They are like birds on a wire. One flies off, they all fly off.'' When it comes to the Whitewater story, the birds are sitting still. Though there is pro-forma coverage of hearings held by the Senate Banking Committee, most of the press seems remarkably lethargic about tracking down the real story. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 580 words.) Dec 24

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