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August 1994--Story--1-- Legally ethical but "troubling" says the Washington Post. NO VIOLATIONS OF ETHICS CITED AT TREASURY - WHITEWATER CONTACTS WERE OFTEN 'TROUBLING' By Susan Schmidt -- The conduct of Treasury Department officials who discussed the Whitewater investigation with White House officials is "troubling" but was not in violation of legal ethics provisions, according to a review released yesterday by the Office of Government Ethics. (WASHINGTON POST, 883 words ), Aug 1

CASE by Susan Schmidt GREATLY ABBREVIATED VERSION OF THE POST STORY (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 410 words.) Aug 1

August 1994--Story-- 1--The New York Times take --TreasuryGATE was ethical but "troubling". WHITE HOUSE BRIEFINGS SURVIVE ETHICS REVIEW by Stephen Labaton A nonpartisan federal ethics agency concluded Sunday that Treasury officials violated no ethics regulations when they briefed White House officials about an investigation into a savings and loan with ties to President Clinton and his wife. But the agency found the meetings troubling and said that some senior officials did not fully understand the ethics rules. (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS , 363 words.) Aug 1

ETHICS REPORT FAULTS SENIOR TREASURY STAFF -- BUT SAYS NO RULES WERE VIOLATED-- WASHINGTON -- Senior Treasury Department officials were criticized in an ethics report yesterday for disclosing information about a potential criminal probe involving President Clinton's Whitewater land venture. But the report said no ethics rules were violated. Treasury's general counsel, Jean Hanson, gave the White House information that "would seem to go beyond what was necessary" to achieve her stated purpose: helping presidential aides answer press inquiries, the report said. (BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Aug 1

ETHICS REPORT CRITICIZES SENIOR TREASURY STAFF -- THOUGH RULES ARE NOT VIOLATED IN WHITEWATER PROBE, OFFICIALS AND AIDES CITED IN LEAKS OF SENSITIVE MATERIALS. Abbreviated version of Boston Globe story. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 548 words). Aug 1

August 1994 --Story--2--LeakGATE - One day before the testimony, the Negative Spining and Leaking Continues-1 THE COUNSEL'S PAPERS -- Treasury general counsel Jean Hanson has emerged as an important figure in Congress's dissection of a series of White House-Treasury contacts on the Whitewater investigation. Hanson, who is scheduled to testify before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee today, gave then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and lawyer Clifford Sloan a "heads-up" on the case at a meeting on Sept. 29, 1993, an action that Republicans have characterized as improper back-channeling of information about a(WASHINGTON POST, 302 words ), Aug 1

August 1994--Story--3-- How can anyone in the Media say "Leaks" with a straight face? - IMPORTANT -- Indications of Bush White House Knowledge of Madison Guaranty six weeks before the November 1992 presidential election -- mid-September 1992 Media got one story--missed the other. SENSITIVE WHITEWATER DATA -- BUREAUCRAT TESTIFIES THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT LEAKED INFORMATION TO THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION A career government regulator told senators yesterday he gave information about a Whitewater-related investigation to the Treasury Department with a plea that it go no further. But soon after, the Clinton White House obtained the confidential information. Underscoring the political nature of the case, the same regulator also disclosed the Bush administration had sought information about the Resolution Trust Corp. investigation six weeks before the 1992 election. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 614 words). Aug 2

August 1994--Story--4--A carefully orchestrated plan. . . . FAIR GAME -- Washington -- This summer, as his health care reform plan struggles and critics have come out of the woodwork, President Clinton and his aides have concluded that there is something new, and qualitatively different, about the way this president is being bashed. (BALTIMORE SUN, 2,049 words), Aug 1

August 1994--Story--5--The Washington Post's take--the Panel doubted all of her testimony except where it could be used to attack Altman. TREASURY AIDE IS GRILLED ON WHITEWATER -- SENATE PANEL DOUBTS HANSON'S TESTIMONY by Sharon LaFraniere and Susan Schmidt -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee yesterday subjected Treasury general counsel Jean E. Hanson to a seven-hour grilling over how she and other Treasury officials handled a sensitive savings and loan investigation that touched on the First Family. (WASHINGTON POST, 1270 words ), Aug 2

August 1994--Story--5--The New York Times take--contradicting her bosses' accounts (which had been deposed but had not yet been heard as testimoney before the committee. TOP AIDE CONTRADICTS BENTSEN AND ALTMAN by Stephen Labaton-WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department's top lawyer yesterday contradicted her bosses' accounts of how the department decided to notify the White House about an investigation that potentially involved President Clinton and his wife. Other banking officials who testified yesterday called the notification highly unusual. The Senate Banking Committee hearing relating to President Clinton's Whitewater development investment in Arkansas ran until nearly midnight. Jean E. Hanson, Treasury's gen ( LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, 739 words.) Aug 2

REBUKES OVER WHITEWATER -- BOTH PARTIES QUESTION WHY TOP TREASURY LAWYER STAYED SILENT UNTIL NOW WITH Breaking months of silence yesterday, the Treasury Department's top lawyer contradicted elements of her bosses' official story on Whitewater, then drew stinging rebukes from Democrats and Republicans alike for her own conduct. Focusing on a key discrepancy, Treasury general counsel Jean Hanson testified she first revealed information about a savings and loan investigation involving President Clinton to the White House last September at the instruction of Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 627 words). Aug 2

TREASURY LAWYER SAYS SHE WAS TOLD TO TIP WHITE HOUSE ON PROBE--- WASHINGTON -- Longer version of above story. (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 870 words), Aug 2

August 1994--Story--5-Get the negatives in first; this will color all subsequent material. LAWYER: ALTMAN IGNORED ADVICE - WHITEWATER PROBE: COUNSEL SAYS SHE RECOMMENDED DISCLOSING WHITE HOUSE CONTACTS. The Treasury Department's top lawyer said Monday that embattled Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman ignored her advice in February Senate hearings when he failed to disclose fully his contacts with the White House on the Whitewater affair. Jean Hanson, Treasury general counsel, told the Senate Banking Committee that she could not explain why Altman, an appointee of longtime friend President Clinton, repeatedly omitted information about his White House contacts when senators questioned him in February (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 810 words.) Aug 2

TREASURY OFFICIALS UNDER FIRE IN PROBE -- LAWYER FACES BIPARTISAN ATTACK FOR WHITEWATER -- CONTRADICTIONS, OMISSIONS After scorning the Treasury Department's top lawyer for her contradictions and omissions, senators investigating Whitewater are interrogating another Treasury official about diaries he disowns. Treasury Chief of Staff Joshua Steiner, who testifies today, wrote in his diary that a longtime Clinton friend, Roger Altman, was "under intense pressure" from the White House to remain as overall head of the Whitewater probe. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 841 words.) Aug 2

August 1994--Story-- 7-- The Steiner diary -- LeakGATE-- More negative spinning and leaking. TREASURY OFFICIAL DISCREDITS OWN DIARY-- SKEPTICAL SENATORS IN WHITEWATER PROBE TOLD WRITTEN ACCOUNT NOT ACCURATE Disowning his own diary entries, a top Treasury official sought today to convince skeptical senators that his written portrayal of the Clinton administration's handling of the Whitewater affair was in error. ''I wish that my diary was more accurate," Treasury Chief of Staff Joshua Steiner told the Senate Banking Committee hearings. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 874 words.) Aug 2

August 1994--Story--8--Keeping another fire hot. FosterGATE-WW documents -- The Washington Post sees a highly suspicious movement of material WHITEWATER FILE WAS KEPT AT WHITE HOUSE RESIDENCE -- FOSTER OFFICE PAPERS STORED FOR SEVERAL DAYS By Ruth Marcus A Whitewater file taken from the office of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster after his death last year was given to Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff and -- at the First Lady's direction -- transferred to the White House residence before being turned over to the Clintons' personal lawyer, administration officials said yesterday. (WASHINGTON POST, 673 words), Aug 2

August 1994--Story--9-- A Slight Pause in the Fun for a National Health Care Plan. Mitchell scrambles to win key votes for health care bill --- WASHINGTON --Hours before today's formal unveiling of George J. Mitchell's plan for salvaging President Clinton's health care reform effort, the Senate majority leader was still furiously buttonholing colleagues. (BALTIMORE SUN, 340 words), Aug 2

August 1994--Story--10--The Washington Post sets up Roger Altman OMISSION TRIGGERED WHITE HOUSE DAMAGE CONTROL By Ruth Marcus and Susan Schmidt From the moment Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman finished testifying before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in February, White House officials knew they had a problem on their hands. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,120 words ), Aug 3

ALTMAN DENIES WRONGDOING; HE TRIES TO SHIFT BLAME Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman battled Tuesday to preserve his job and his reputation, insisting he was not aware of early warnings to the White House about a Whitewater investigation and had not lied to Congress about it. In the dramatic high point of weeklong Senate and House hearings on the Whitewater affair, Altman contradicted testimony offered the day before by his own department counsel.

August 1994--Story--12 -- FosterGATE-WW documents -- What (ominous thing) happened during those 5 days? AIDE SAYS FOSTER FILE STORED 5 DAYS AT CLINTONS' RESIDENCE -- WASHINGTON -- Reporters were misled for months about the timing and circumstances of Vincent Foster's Whitewater file being given to a Clinton family attorney after his death, the White House acknowledged yesterday. A key point was left out of the earlier White House story: Margaret Williams, Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff, was given the file first, and she stored it in the Clintons' residence for five days before turning it over to the lawyer. (BOSTON GLOBE, 109 words), Aug 3

August 1994--Story--13 --The Radical Right was just getting warmed up.-- This was Randal Terry and his Operation Rescue bus. MR. CLINTON, THE BUS STOPS HERE By Joel Achenbach Sodomy. That's just one of the serious matters being completely overlooked at the Whitewater hearings. I've been watching and listening for days and so far I haven't heard anyone mention sodomy, not even Al D'Amato. Reminding us of the sodomy issue, however, was a Greyhound-size bus idling outside the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Monday. On the side of the bus were the words "Wake Up America" and "Should Clinton Be Impeached?" In smaller type was a list of the president's purported sins: WOMANIZING TROOPERGATE DECEPTION ABORTION ADULTERY BRIBERY SODOMY FRAUD (WASHINGTON POST, 1,362 words ), Aug 3

August 1994--Story--14-- Altman ALTMAN RETAINS CLINTON'S 'CONFIDENCE' -- BUT RIEGLE SAYS SENATORS ARE TROUBLED BY WHITEWATER TESTIMONY By Susan Schmidt and Ruth Marcus President Clinton said last night that Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman, the focus of congressional criticism in the Whitewater hearings, had done a "superb job" as the No. 2 official at the Treasury Department and retained his "confidence." (WASHINGTON POST, 1,818 words ), Aug 4

August 1994--Story 15--Bentsen BENTSEN DEFENDS HIMSELF - SECRETARY OF TREASURY CONTRADICTS TESTIMONY ON HIS ROLE IN WHITEWATER TALKS by Stephen Labaton -Returning to the Senate to defend his reputation, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen yesterday contradicted the description of his role in Whitewater discussions that his two top aides repeated yesterday before a panel on the other side of Capitol Hill. Given a gentle reception by the Senate Banking Committee, the panel that had grilled Deputy Secretary Roger C. Altman for nine hours the night before, Bentsen cited errors of judgment by Altman and the department's general counsel, Jean Hanson, (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL , 705 words.) Aug 4

August 1994--Story--16--Hillary Clinton. Whitewater no big deal to first lady, aide says --- WASHINGTON -- With Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff on the witness stand, Senate Republicans sought to show today that the first lady was far more interested in the Whitewater affair than the White House has acknowledged. (BALTIMORE SUN, 638 words), Aug 4

August 1994--Story--17 -National Health Care Plan -- In 1998, 50 MILLION Americans were not covered by health care insurance. Scaled-down health plans will work, Clinton says WASHINGTON -- President Clinton is insisting that scaled-down health care proposals moving through Congress still satisfy his demand to put the country on track toward coverage for all. Counting noses on Capitol Hill, he conceded that more ambitious proposals simply won't fly. (BALTIMORE SUN, 729 words), Aug 4

CLINTON ASKS FOR PUBLIC'S PRESSURE ON HEALTH PLAN--- WASHINGTON -- President Clinton, facing the possibility that even a scaled-back health plan could be defeated, urged the public last night to pressure Congress to approve a Democratic plan that he said has been "changed for the better" from his proposal of last year. In only his third prime-time press conference, Clinton drew a rosy portrait of his accomplishments on the economy but said everyone except the wealthiest of Americans remains at risk unless Congress approves universal(BOSTON GLOBE, 1,058 words), Aug 4

August 1994--Story--18-- Why? GROUP SUES FOR ACCESS TO CLINTON LEGAL FUND By Toni Locy A recently formed organization yesterday filed suit against First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the fund designed to pay the First Family's legal bills. (WASHINGTON POST, 428 words ), Aug 5

August 194--Story--19--Nussbaum. SENATOR SAYS EX-COUNSEL NUSSBAUM 'CROSSED THE LINE' IN WHITEWATER- RIEGLE, OTHERS CHARGE PRESSURE SWAYED ALTMAN'S RECUSAL DECISION By Susan Schmidt and Sharon LaFraniere -- Nearly the entire Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee last night lambasted former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, saying he improperly pressured Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman to keep his decision-making power over an investigation that involved President Clinton. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,527 words ), Aug 5

August 1994--Story--20--This was the intention. WHITEWATER: DAMAGED GOODS -- DESPITE THE happy face being worn by the White House, this first congressional phase of the Whitewater investigation has turned out to be an embarrassing and politically damaging event for the Clinton administration. What began as an inquiry into the ethical propriety of contacts among the White House, Treasury Department and the Resolution Trust Corp. regarding the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan has evolved into broader questions about the integrity of high Treasury officials. (WASHINGTON POST, 368 words ), Aug 5

August 1994--Story--22--Keep the FosterGATE WW documents fire going. FOSTER PAPERS MYSTERY MAY FIGURE IN HEARINGS -- WASHINGTON -- Of the many mysteries in the Whitewater affair, one of the most bewildering is the story of what happened to White House counsel Vincent Foster's personal papers after he committed suicide. The mystery has prompted a delay in a special counsel's investigation and may be the focus of the next round of Whitewater hearings. The papers, which President and Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to keep private for months, are important because they relate directly to the Clintons' inv(BOSTON GLOBE, 1,041 words), Aug 5

August 1994--Story--23--Hillary Clinton. FIRST LADY ISN'T OBSESSED BY PROBE, AIDE SAYS-- WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans zeroed in Thursday on Hillary Rodham Clinton's interest in the federal Whitewater investigations, but her chief of staff testified that they were merely a distraction to the first lady, not an obsession. Margaret Williams disputed a colleague's diary that said the first lady was "paralyzed" by the Whitewater affair. Referring to a journal entry by Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who was grilled by the separate House and Senate Whitewater committees(KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 366 words), Aug 5

August 1994-Story-- 24 --The reporting of the L.Jean Lewis secret taping of April Breslaw. RTC lawyer didn't know about tape WASHINGTON -- A federal regulator accused of seeking to change an embarrassing finding in a Whitewater-related investigation testified today that she did not know her statements to an investigator were being secretly tape-recorded. (BALTIMORE SUN, 565 words), Aug 5

WHITEWATER: 'UNIMPORTANT CHAT'--WITNESS DENIES TRYING TO ALTER STATEMENT A federal regulator accused by Republicans of seeking to change an embarrassing finding in a Whitewater-related investigation testified today she didn't recall her statements to an investigator, who secretly taped them. But Resolution Trust Corp. lawyer April Breslaw said any remarks she made came only because agency colleagues encouraged her to participate in casual conversation. "I had not behaved in an unethical manner," she told the House Banking Committee's Whitewater hearing. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 847 words.) Aug 5

August 1994--Story--25--Cutting through all the smoke. WHITEWATER--NOTHING ILLEGAL OR UNETHICAL, BUT HEED THE LESSONS So far, the separate hearings into the Whitewater affair by the House and Senate banking committees have yielded nothing to suggest that Clinton administration officials did anything illegal or unethical in the matters lawmakers are reviewing. Still, the embarrassment the hearings represent for the administration is partially of its own making Republicans appear determined to make something or other out of the election-year hearings, despite the sensible inclination of most Americans (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 425 words), Aug 5

[Para 2] A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals declined to reappoint Fiske under the new independent counsel law, saying he could have a "perceived" conflict because he originally had been appointed to his job by Clinton administration Attorney General Janet Reno.

[Para 3] "It is not our intent to impugn the integrity of the Attorney General's appointee, but rather to reflect the intent of the Act that the actor be protected against perceptions of conflict," the court panel wrote.

[Para 6] Republicans have complained over the past two months that Fiske has exercised virtual veto power in severely limiting the scope of congressional Whitewater hearings.

[Para 9] Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.), publicly complained this week that Fiske lacked aggressiveness. Sens. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) and Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.) tried to weave criticism of Fiske into the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee's hearings on how White House and Treasury Department officials responded to a federal investigation that touched the Clintons.

[Para 15] Starr's selection is somewhat surprising because he has publicly challenged President Clinton's claim to immunity from lawsuits while he is in office. Starr recently considered filing a friend-of-the-court brief on the side of Paula Corbin Jones in her sexual harassment complaint against Clinton in which she argues against his immunity claim. In fact, Starr recently debated the topic on television with White House counsel Lloyd N. Cutler.

[Para 16] Two of the three judges sitting on the special panel who oversee independent counsels are conservatives. They are presiding Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, who was appointed to a district judgeship by President Ronald Reagan, and Joseph T. Sneed of San Francisco, appointed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Richard M. Nixon in 1973. The third judge, John D. Butzner Jr. of Richmond, was named to the court of appeals by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

[Para 18] In particular, Sentelle, a staunch conservative, had been "boxed into" seeking an alternative to Fiske by several factors, said a conservative Washington lawyer. In passing the new independent counsel statute, Congress had seemed to call on the three-judge panel to rename Fiske, thus challenging the panel's independence, this lawyer said.

[Para 22] Some congressional conservatives have said they are not satisfied with some of Fiske's findings.

[Para 23] D'Amato yesterday called upon Starr to reopen the investigation into White House contacts with Treasury on Whitewater. Based on this week's testimony to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, D'Amato said he is "convinced that certain people who testified before the committee were not truthful."

[Para 25] "My concern is the lack of aggressiveness on the part of Mr. Fiske that I feel in pursuing the Whitewater matter and his many, multiple ties to the various members of the administration. I feel very strongly that he maybe represents more the problem than the solution to clearing up the Whitewater problem."

NEW CHIEF IN WHITEWATER PROBE NAMED - RENO APPOINTEE OUSTED; PANEL CITES PERCEPTIONS' by Susan Schmidt Shortened version of Post story. (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER , 765 words.) Aug 6

QUERIES ABOUT HIS WHITEWATER LINKS FORESHADOWED FISKE'S REMOVAL -- WASHINGTON -- The first public hint of Robert B. Fiske Jr.'s eventual departure as a special federal counsel emerged Wednesday on national television as a Republican senator listed Fiske's links to the Whitewater case that he had sworn to prosecute. "Are you aware that Robert Fiske's law firm represented the company that sold the land to the Whitewater partnership?" Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina asked Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on (BOSTON GLOBE, 645 words), Aug 6

August 1994--Story--27-- Summing up. BICKERING CONTINUES AS HILL ENDS WHITEWATER HEARINGS' FIRST PHASE - BOTH SIDES HINT THAT CHANGES AT TREASURY MAY BE FORTHCOMING By Howard Schneider and Sharon LaFraniere Congress ended the first phase of its Whitewater hearings yesterday with Senate Democrats criticizing top Treasury Department officials and their House counterparts dismissing the two weeks of testimony as mostly unrevealing. (WASHINGTON POST, 841 words ), Aug 6

SHOULD WHITEWATER PROBE CONTINUE? -- It may be difficult for Democrats to see the efficacy of congressional investigation of Whitewater. But most Americans desire that the hearings proceed without delay, limitation of scope or mischievous procedural restrictions ("Whitewater: Congress would do better to avoid political show," July 27). Many ardent supporters of the Clinton administration have grown strangely subdued at the mention of Whitewater. Even they are beginning to look suspiciously at what would elicit a firestorm (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 392 words), Aug 6

August 1994--Story--29--Create an impression and bring Starr in. Whitewater hearings leave impression administration has something to hide -- WASHINGTON -- After 115 hours of proceedings, 6,000 pages of documents, 35 witnesses and 71 questioners, after eight days and nights of gavel-banging, finger-pointing, sound-biting, it's appropriate to ask the question that a congressman posed at the start of the House and Senate's Whitewater hearings: (BALTIMORE SUN, 1,176 words), Aug 7

NO SMOKING GUN IN WHITEWATER -- HEARINGS SHOW CLINTON DIDN'T MEDDLE, BUT ADMINISTRATION LOOKS BAD When Republicans first learned that President Clinton's aides had been tipped off about the government investigation of his old friend and investment partner James McDougal, they began using words not often heard since the days of Watergate -- words like "coverup" and "obstruction of justice." But nearly two weeks of intense congressional hearings have failed to produce any substantial evidence that the Clinton administration actually interfered with the federal investigation of McDougal's now-defun (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 631 words.) Aug 7

August 1994--Story--30 --"Mr Fairness" STARR: 'NO PRECONCEPTIONS' ON PROBE -- NEW WHITEWATER COUNSEL UNDECIDED ON REOPENING PARTS OF INQUIRY By Ruth Marcus and Saundra Torry Newly appointed independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr said yesterday that he had not yet decided whether to reopen the closed parts of the Whitewater investigation or to hire a new staff. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,171 words ), Aug 7

August 1994--Story--31--The New York Times on Starr. NEW INDEPENDENT COUNSEL STARR PROMISES HE'LL BE EVENHANDED by Stephen Labaton -- The newly appointed independent counsel on Whitewater promised Saturday that he would be fair and evenhanded, but he declined to discuss anything else about his plans for the investigation. Speaking briefly with reporters at the annual conference of the American Bar Association in New Orleans, the new prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, would not discuss whether he would reexamine ground already covered by his predecessor, Robert Fiske. (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER , 467 words.) Aug 7

August 1994--Story--32--A more presicient view of Starr JUDGES' POLITICS EXAMINED IN APPOINTMENT OF STARR TO DIRECT PROBE By Toni Locy Two of the three judges who made the surprise appointment of Kenneth W. Starr as the new Whitewater independent counsel have strong Republican credentials but have not been philosophical crusaders on the bench, according to legal observers. (WASHINGTON POST, 701 words ), Aug 7

August 1994--Story--33 --BUFFALOED BILL GETS UP OFF THE FLOOR By MARY McGRORY PRESIDENT CLINTON held a news conference last week. This is news because it is only the third solo, announced East Room appearance since his inauguration. He says he's going to do more. (WASHINGTON POST, 833 words ), Aug 7

August 1994--Story--34 --Trying to save the National Health Care Reform Program. CONGRESS AND HEALTH: A GUIDE TO THE DEBATE -- WASHINGTON -- When President Clinton suggested a few weeks ago in Boston that a health plan that insured 95 percent, instead of 100 percent of Americans, might be acceptable, he was accused of caving in. When Clinton ally George Mitchell, the Senate Democratic leader, made the same suggestion last week, he was hailed by many for political genius. The drastically different responses signal that after more than two years of preliminaries, the health debate has abruptly entered a volatile and(BOSTON GLOBE, 983 words), Aug 7

August 1994--Story--35--See story 29 Whitewater hearings produced many yawns -- WASHINGTON -- The two-week congressional inquiry into Whitewater transformed a numbing bit of Arkansas financial history into an ethics albatross President Clinton can ill afford. (BALTIMORE SUN, 656 words), Aug 8

August 1994--Story--36--The Post was much more obsessed. HILL HEARINGS REVEAL A WHITE HOUSE OBSESSED WITH WHITEWATER By Ruth Marcus Treasury Department general counsel Jean E. Hanson was in the middle of lunch last February when her beeper went off and she was hurriedly summoned to the White House for a meeting. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,786 words ), Aug 8

August 1994--Story--37--You mean they were being forced to stay and legislate? COLLARED DURING THE DOG DAYS -- WHITEWATER, HEALTH CARE KILL TRAVEL PLANS By Donnie Radcliffe and Aimee Miller Traffic is thinner on the Beltway. They're evacuating the families -- loading up the car and kissing the kids goodbye. (WASHINGTON POST, 769 words ), Aug 8

August 1994--Story--38--Where did they get that idea? STARR URGED TO DECLINE COUNSEL POST -- CLINTON'S LAWYER CRITICIZES APPOINTEE'S STANCE ON JONES SUIT By Ruth Marcus and Rebecca Fowler President Clinton's lawyer in a sexual harassment lawsuit yesterday called on Kenneth W. Starr, the newly appointed independent counsel to investigate Whitewater, to step down from the case because of an appearance of "partisanship" against Clinton. (WASHINGTON POST, 977 words ), Aug 8

CLINTON LAWYER OPPOSES STARR-- WHITEWATER: BENNETT SAYS THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL HAS THE APPEARANCE OF 'UNFAIRNESS'. President Clinton's lawyer in a sexual-harassment lawsuit Sunday called on Kenneth Starr, the newly appointed independent counsel to investigate Whitewater, to step down from the case because of an appearance of "partisanship" against Clinton. The attorney, Robert Bennett, said in an interview that he had no personal doubts about Starr's "intellect and integrity." But he pointed to Starr's recent comments opposing Clinton's argument that he is immune as president from being sued by former Arkansas s (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 690 words.) Aug 8

KENNETH STARR'S A REAL REPUBLICAN -- In announcing that it was ousting Independent Counsel Robert Fiske, chosen by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate Whitewater-Madison Guaranty S&L matters, a special three-judge court issued this statement: ``It is not our intent to impugn the attorney general's appointee, but rather to reflect the intent of the act that the actor be protected against perceptions of conflict. . . As Fiske was appointed by the incumbent administration the court therefore deems it in the best interest of the appeara (BALTIMORE SUN, 444 words), Aug 9

August 1994--Story--39 --A decline in Clinton's poll numbers. CLINTON RATINGS DECLINE DESPITE RISING ECONOMY -- 47% IN POLL APPROVE OF OVERALL PERFORMANCE By Richard Morin A booming economy has proven to be a political bust for President Clinton, whose popularity continues to founder despite continued good economic news, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. (WASHINGTON POST, 830 words ), Aug 9

August 1994--Story--40 --Well, maybe he will be fair. WHITE HOUSE SUPPORTS STARR -- DESPITE MISGIVINGS, AIDES EXPRESS ACCEPTANCE By Howard Schneider and Ruth -- The White House yesterday voiced support for the appointment of Kenneth W. Starr as Whitewater independent counsel, distancing the administration from comments made Sunday by President Clinton's personal attorney that Starr was too partisan and should quit. (WASHINGTON POST, 957 words ), Tuesday, Aug 9

August 1994--Story--41--"And here are the Republicans you do not investigate." STARR, FISKE MEET AS DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO PROTEST By Ruth Marcus Kenneth W. Starr, the new independent counsel investigating Whitewater, met in Little Rock, Ark., yesterday with his predecessor, Robert B. Fiske Jr., as the Democratic outcry over the appointment of a partisan Republican continued(WASHINGTON POST, 747 words ), Aug 10

August 1994--Story--42 --PaulaGATE. JUSTICE DEBATES FILING OPINION ON IMMUNITY -- CLINTON STATUS, SUIT BY JONES ARE AT ISSUE By Ruth Marcus The Justice Department has drafted a brief supporting President Clinton's argument that he cannot be sued while in office, but some officials are worried that filing the opinion could open the department to political criticism. (WASHINGTON POST, 658 words ), Aug 10

August 1994--Story--43 --A demoralized White House. ANOTHER MISERABLE WHITE HOUSE AUGUST - WHILE PANETTA PONDERS HIS PROMISED CHANGES, A WEARY STAFF AWAITS THE WORD By Ann Devroy Chief of Staff Leon E. Panetta opened the White House senior staff meeting Monday with an appeal: Despite his pledge six weeks ago to quickly change the operation there, he is not yet ready; the battered, anxious staff, he said, should bear with him. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,360 words ), Aug 10

August 1994--Story--44 --With a number of certain exceptions. STARR SAYS HE PLANS TO BUILD ON FISKE'S WHITEWATER WORK By Susan Schmidt and Toni Locy Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr yesterday praised his predecessor, Robert B. Fiske Jr., saying he plans to build on the work Fiske has completed and hopes to do so with members of the team Fiske assembled. (WASHINGTON POST, 795 words ), Aug 11

August 1994--Story--46--It may have been unprecedented, but it was wise. CLINTON ASKS UNPRECEDENTED IMMUNITY -- LAWYER ARGUES PRESIDENT MUST AVOID DISTRACTION OF HARASSMENT CASE By Ruth Marcus President Clinton contended yesterday that the Constitution protects him from being sued for damages while in office, arguing that allowing lawsuits against a sitting president would gravely impair his ability to function and embroil the judiciary in partisan politics. (WASHINGTON POST, 701 words ), Aug 11

August 1994--Story--47 --Right on target. CLINTON IS THE TARGET, PRESIDENCY THE VICTIM -- First: Whitewater, no matter how smelly it gets and no matter how ineptly this president handles it, is not Watergate. You do not have a president of the United States sitting in the Oval Office putting in the fix for a crime that happened during his presidency. Second, it is not the Iran-Contra scandal where a president of the United States was involved in setting up a secret government within the United States to transact illegal business, such as selling arms to a foreign government to (BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Aug 12

JUDGE, FAIRCLOTH MET BEFORE DECISION -- BOTH SAY THEY DIDN'T DISCUSS WHITEWATER COUNSEL MATTER -- Shorter version of Post story. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 475 words), Aug 12

August 1994--Story--49--The other guns of August. FOR CLINTON, CRIME AND HEALTH EQUALED A BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE By Ann Devroy It was not how President Clinton expected to be spending August, furiously fighting a losing battle for crime legislation at a time when genuflection to that issue by politicians is as automatic as breathing. (WASHINGTON POST, 990 words ), Aug 12

August 1994--Story--50 --Foreign policy from abroad and from within the Beltway--the Media and the GOP had an election to win. CLINTON'S FOREIGN POLICY: BETTER THAN IT LOOKS By Stephen S. Rosenfeld Edward Mortimer writes in the Financial Times that from afar in London he thought American foreign policy was looking up but that when he got up close in Washington recently, he was shocked to discover that criticism of Bill Clinton's international performance had become more widespread and scathing and was intruding upon his domestic prestige. (WASHINGTON POST, 808 words ), Aug 12

August 1994--Story--51 --The Lost Cause. DEMOCRATIC CRITICISM OF STARR'S APPOINTMENT MOUNTS By Howard Schneider and Ruth Marcus -- Congressional Democrats yesterday stepped up their criticism of newly appointed Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, contending that a Capitol Hill meeting involving one of the judges who selected him taints the choice of a prosecutor who is supposed to be above politics. Appeals court Judge David Sentelle, a former Charlotte lawyer, and Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C., one of the leading Whitewater critics, both deny they discussed Starr's appointment or the removal of then-Whitewater sp (WASHINGTON POST, 830 words ), Aug 13

FAIRCLOTH, JUDGE AT CENTER OF WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR FUROR Shorter version of Post story. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 746 words), Aug 13

FUROR OVER WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR FOCUSES ON JUDGE -- See the Free Press story (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 721 words), Aug 13

August 1994--Story--53--A contrived scandal--no media investigative reporting--a logical result. CAN CLINTON REVIVE THIS PRESIDENCY? -- PUNDITS SAY THE PRESIDENT TALKS TOO MUCH, TAKES ON TOO MANY ISSUES AND IS TOO LIBERAL FOR THE COUNTRY. BUT THE PROBLEM IS DEEPER AND MORE FUNDAMENTAL. It seems a dim memory now, but only 22 short months ago, Bill Clinton's celebrated bus caravan drew thousands of Americans at each stop eager to hear his voice. Look back at videotape of those stops and you realize these weren't phony events produced by veteran advance men but, rather, a genuine outpouring of mostly regular folks, many with their kids on their shoulders, who came to hear the voice of a new Democrat. Even his most ardent opponents had to concede that Clinton's voice touched a chord wi(KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 1,225 words), Aug 14

August 1994--Story--53, again--from an outsider's viewpoint. 'THIS CITY IS NOTHING LIKE THE PLANET EARTH' -- AN OUTSIDER'S GUIDE TO WASHINGTON By Dave Barry National health care policy is without question the most important issue -- as measured in total inches of newspaper stories that you, personally, have not read -- to face this nation since ... gosh, I would have to say since NAFTA . (WASHINGTON POST, 6,563 words ), Aug 14

August 1994--Story--54--We got our guy in, and he's not leaving! DOLE AND MITCHELL SPAR OVER STARR -- GOP SENATOR SAYS CLINTON LAWYER TRYING TO 'INTIMIDATE' APPOINTEE Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) yesterday accused President Clinton's lawyer of trying to "intimidate" Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, while Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) added his voice to those questioning Starr's appointment. (WASHINGTON POST, 500 words ), Aug 15

August 1994--Story--56--- North Carolina's Take. WHAT JUDGE, 2 SENATORS TALKED ABOUT People who remember David Sentelle when he was a young Charlotte lawyer and Mecklenburg district judge in the late '70s and early '80s were probably surprised, as I was, when he became the focus of a national controversy last week. Sentelle was nominated by Sen. Jesse Helms and appointed to the U.S. District Court bench in 1985, and appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1987. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 678 words), Aug 16

August 1994--Story--57 --There was no review. WHITEWATER-- WILL STARR BE FAIR? HIS APPOINTMENT MERITS REVIEW-- The Clinton administration evidently feels it has no choice but to accept the politically tainted appointment of Kenneth Starr as Whitewater special prosecutor, and to hope he will be fair as well as independent. However, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, are on solid ground in challenging the circumstances under which Mr. Starr came to be named independent counsel to replace Robert Fiske Jr. (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 447 words), Aug 16

August 1994--Story--58 -Susan Schmidt of the Washington Post, Jeff Gerth of the New York Times and Lewis had been working together since mid-September 1993. Much of the material used in the Post and Times articles from late September 1993 into early 1994 had been provided to the Post and Times illegally. TAPING OF RTC WHITEWATER LAWYER IS SAID TO BE PROBED By Susan Schmidt (WASHINGTON POST, 502 words ), Aug 16

[Para 1} The Resolution Trust Corp. yesterday placed three senior criminal investigators [L.Jean Lewis and two others] who worked on the Whitewater investigation on administrative leave while the agency investigates unspecified activities related to job performance.

August 1994--Story--60 -- The Aroma is still ripe in 1998--but the media had lost its sense of smell LUNCH WITH LAUCH -- IF JUDGE SENTELLE WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT THE APPEARANCE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST, WHY DID HE LUNCH WITH SEN. FAIRCLOTH? Politics would wither without a sprinkling of hypocrisy now and again. But sometimes the aroma is a bit too ripe, and that's what we smell in events surrounding the Aug. 5 replacement of Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske with Kenneth Starr. One member of the three-judge federal appeals panel that ousted Mr. Fiske, former Charlotte lawyer and Republican activist David Sentelle, lunched July 14 with two fellow N.C. Republicans - U.S. Sens. Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 467 words), Aug 18

August 1994--Story--61 --And its sense of justice. -- We only can appoint special counsels! We cannot inquire into their fitness for office and we cannot remove them from office. JUDGES SAY THEY LACK POWER TO OUST OR REVIEW WHITEWATER COUNSEL Turning aside mounting Democratic criticism of the naming of Kenneth W. Starr as new Whitewater independent counsel, a judicial panel led by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge David B. Sentelle yesterday said it has no power to remove the independent counsels it appoints. (WASHINGTON POST, 837 words ), Aug 19

August 1994--Story--62--Re-grouping at the Treasury Department -- a guarantee no one will look into the corrupt operations of the Resolution Trust Corporation. BENTSEN CHOOSES TOP AIDES, MOVES TO MEND HILL RELATIONS -- NEWMAN NAMED TO REPLACE ALTMAN HANSON RESIGNS By Clay Chandler Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen took another step toward mending hisdepartment's frayed relations with Congress yesterday, accepting the resignation of General Counsel Jean E. Hanson and naming Edward S. Knight, a trusted aide, to replace her. (WASHINGTON POST, 823 words ), Aug 19

August 1994--Story--63-- PaulaGATE. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BRIEF BACKS CLINTON'S CLAIM OF WIDE IMMUNITY IN HARASSMENT CASE By Sharon La Franiere -- A new brief by the Justice Department supports President Clinton's contention that he cannot be sued while in office. It urges a federal judge to postpone Paula Corbin Jones's lawsuit until Clinton once again is a private citizen. (WASHINGTON POST, 606 words ), Aug 19

U.S. BRIEF SUPPORTS IMMUNITY -- Same as the Washington Post Story (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 659 words), Aug 19

August 1994--Story--64 -- Whitewater. LEACH FAILS IN BID FOR WHITEWATER PAPERS -- WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim Leach lost a lawsuit to obtain Whitewater documents through the Freedom of Information Act yesterday when a judge ruled the Iowa congressman was acting on his own and not on behalf of Congress. "Representative Leach's real dispute is with his colleagues in Congress, who are capable of providing him with substantial, if not complete relief," US District Judge Charles Richey ruled. (BOSTON GLOBE, 945 words), Aug 19

August 1994 --Story--65-- Jeff Gerth and the New York Times provides a cover for Ken to extend his investigation. Whitewater probe expands into 1990 race, paper says -- NEW YORK -- The Whitewater investigation, which began as an inquiry into the personal finances of President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton from 1978 through the mid-1980s, has grown to include an examination of Mr. Clinton's more recent campaign financing, the New York Times reported in today's editions. (BALTIMORE SUN, 376 words), Aug 20

WHITEWATER INQUIRY BROADENED TO CLINTON CAMPAIGN FINANCING BY JEFF GERTH -- In the weeks before he was replaced as the independent counsel investigating the Whitewater case, Robert Fiske substantially expanded his inquiry into a broad examination of the way Bill Clinton had financed his political career, particularly his 1990 campaign for governor of Arkansas, witnesses and outside lawyers familiar with the inquiry say. What began as a smaller investigation into the personal finances of Clinton and his wife, Hillary - in particular their real estate partnership with a(KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 341 words), Aug 20

FISKE BROADENED WHITEWATER PROBE, BEFORE REPLACEMENT, COUNSEL TURNED TO CLINTON'S POLITICAL FINANCING, WITNESSES SAY. by Jeff Gerth -- Same text as the original NY Times story. ( SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 610 words.) Aug 20

August 1994--Story--66--Neither was the Washington Post THE WHITE HOUSE ISN'T TELLING US THE TRUTH By Ruth Marcus -- In Washington, White House special counsel Lloyd N. Cutler likes to say, trust is the coin of the realm. By that measure, the Clinton White House is flat broke when it comes to its dealings with the reporters who cover it. (WASHINGTON POST, 1336 words ), Aug 21

August 1994--Story--67--They could not have done it without the Mainstream Media. GOP MINORITY GROWS MIGHTY IN A FORTNIGHT By David S. Broder When President George Bush left the White House 19 months ago yesterday, Republicans settled in for life in the doldrums. Their opponents controlled the Oval Office, the Senate and the House. The GOP had only its memories of 12 years of presidential perks. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,458 words ), Aug 21

August 1994--Story--68 --We knock him down but he keep bouncing back up! HERE WE GO AGAIN --- CATS HAVE NINE LIVES, BUT IT'S UNCLEAR HOW MANY A COMEBACK KID HAS -- CLINTON CAN STILL TURN IT AROUND --- They call him the Comeback Kid because he has so often vanquished political foes after being written off as a loser. Whether retaking the Arkansas governorship after a 1980 defeat, or battling to a one-vote victory in his first congressional budget fight, Bill Clinton has proved that he's at his best when he's on the ropes. Today that reputation is being tested as never before. With the surprise defeat of his anticrime bill on a procedural vote, confusion over the final shape of a health (BOSTON GLOBE, 1,051 words), Aug 21

IT WON'T BE EASY, BUT CLINTON CAN PARLAY -- NAFTA SUCCESS INTO APPROVAL OF By HOBART ROWEN -- Without a doubt, President Clinton's success in mustering bipartisan support last year for the North American Free Trade Act represented the peak of his effectiveness as a national leader. (WASHINGTON POST, 861 words ), Aug 21

August 1994--Story--69--The story that would soon go away. JUDGE SENTELLE AND THE SENATORS DO LUNCH - David Bryan Sentelle was born on Lincoln's birthday into a North Carolina mountain family that had been Republican for generations. He has kept up the tradition. As a lawyer and judge in Charlotte for 15 years, Sentelle was well-known for his cowboy boots, chewing tobacco and conservative Republican politics. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 1,339 words), Aug 21

LUNCH AMONG 'OLD FRIENDS' CAUSES LATEST WHITEWATER RIPPLE By Toni Locy and Marilyn W. Thompson Earlier this summer, before he emerged as a Republican crusader in the Senate's Whitewater hearings, Sen. Lauch Faircloth (N.C.) called his longtime friend John McNair to talk about a July 4 beach get-together. The conversation quickly turned to Faircloth's latest cause -- exposing the Whitewater scandal. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,822 words ), Aug 24

August 1994--Story --70--In case you missed the original story. WHY NOT THE TRUTH? -- Excerpted from a column by Ruth Marcus, who covers the White House for the Washington Post. Apparently putting its short-term political interests ahead of accuracy, the Clinton White House regularly fails to provide trustworthy information - whether out of inability, unwillingness or both. Examples range from trivial to significant, but they are legion: (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 423 words), Aug 24

August 1994--Story--71-- The Washington Post explains the failure of Clinton's National Health Care Plan. THE MAN WHO PUT A PRICE ON HEALTH CARE By Hobart Rowen --When the history is finally written of Bill Clinton's failure to pass his far-reaching health reform proposal, the centerpiece of his commitment to "change," one name will loom large in the narrative: Robert D. Reischauer, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. (WASHINGTON POST, 857 words ), Aug 25

August 1994--Story--72--Meanwhile the investigation continues into the S&L that was the FIFTH largest failed S&L in Arkansas. What happened to ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR?? -- IN OTHER ACTION -- The Resolution Trust Corp. asked a federal court to enforce subpoenas for a wide variety of documents against Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas as it investigates possible suits against him in connection with the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, and to enforce similar subpoenas against James McDougal, the onetime chairman of Madison. McDougal was the principal partner with Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton in Whitewater Development Co. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 108 words.) Aug 25

August 1994--Story--73 --How the GOP won the legislative war. WHEN A LEGISLATIVE WIN FEELS LIKE A LOSS -- VICTORY ON CRIME BILL WILL AFFORD CLINTON BUT A LITTLE TIME TO REFLECT, PLOT COURSE FOR THE REMAINING MONTHS. -- While Thursday's climactic vote on the crime bill gave President Clinton another comeback victory, the win was so narrow and bitter that it leaves open the question of whether he gained any significant political leverage for the relentless series of other problems he now faces. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 701 words), Aug 26

August 1994--Story--74 --Outrage in North Carolina SMELLING A RAT IN A LIBERAL HIVE -- WHAT'S BEHIND THIS MEDIA HYPE ABOUT A LUNCH IN WASHINGTON AMONG THREE N.C. FRIENDS? Why this hyperventilation over a lunch in Washington? On July 14, Judge David Sentelle, Sen. Lauch Faircloth, and Sen. Jesse Helms broke bread together in the U.S. Senate dining room. Three self-made N.C. men, from humble backgrounds out of Haywood, Sampson and Union counties, respectively, comparing notes. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 843 words), Aug 27

August 1994--Story--75--Don't worry Jean, Ken will soon make your troubles all go away. WHITEWATER INVESTIGATOR SEEKS SHIFT IN PROBE -- WASHINGTON -- A key Whitewater investigator wants the Resolution Trust Corp. inspector general to take over an inquiry into her suspension and that of two supervisors at RTC's office in Kansas City, Mo., her lawyer said yesterday. The lawyer, Michael Forshey of Dallas, also addressed some of the reported reasons for the suspensions, including a secret tape recording that became a focus of congressional Whitewater hearings. In a letter to RTC inspector general John Adair, Forshey said RTC (BOSTON GLOBE, 254 words), Aug 27

August 1994--Story--76 -- CLINTON FINALLY STARTS VACATION -- The president is finally on vacation, after grappling with Cuba, the crime bill, health care, Whitewater - all of which kept him from the really big event here, the county fair. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 368 words), Aug 28

August 1994--Story--78-- The Washington Post and L. Jean Lewis strike again. CLINTON LOANS FOR '90 GUBERNATORIAL RACE LEAVE TANGLED TRAIL FOR WHITEWATER PROBE -- REPAYMENT OF $180,000 NOT DOCUMENTED IN SUBPOENAED RECORDS By Marilyn W. Thompson Just before his 1990 election to a fifth term as Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton went into a last-minute panic. His GOP rival, though trailing substantially in the polls, had mounted a final assault on Clinton with negative television advertisements portraying the incumbent as a fiscally irresponsible "raise-and-spend" Democrat. (WASHINGTON POST, 2,122 words ), Aug 30

CLINTON'S LOANS FOR 1990 RACE UNDER SCRUTINY Abbreviated version of Post story. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 637 words.) Aug 30

August 1994--Story--79-- L.Jean Lewis back on Madison -- S&L UNIT ENDS SUSPENSION OF INVESTIGATOR, 2 BOSSES -- WASHINGTON -- The Resolution Trust Corp. has put a key investigator connected to the Whitewater investigation and two superiors back to work following a two-week suspension. Investigator Jean Lewis and her bosses, Richard Iorio and Lee Ausen, returned to their jobs Monday at RTC's office in Kansas City, Mo., the agency said yesterday. They had been placed on paid administrative leave Aug. 15 during an internal inquiry into several unspecified on-the-job allegations. (BOSTON GLOBE, 184 words), Aug 31

STARR IS SAID TO SEEK AIDE WITH NO GOP POLITICAL TIES -- WASHINGTON -- Hoping to counter criticism, Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr is searching for a deputy with prosecuting experience and no ties to Republican politics, according to lawyers familiar with the effort. Starr's search comes as the staff of his predecessor, Robert Fiske, has begun its exodus. With a smooth transition well under way, at least four key Fiske staffers have departed or are preparing to do so. (BOSTON GLOBE, 497 words), Aug 31

DEPUTY PROSECUTOR SOUGHT WHITEWATER PROBE'S STARR WANTS AIDE WITH PROSECUTING EXPERIENCE, NO TIES TO GOP POLITICS, SOURCES SAY. ABBREVIATED VERSION OF BOSTON GLOBE STORY. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 396 words), Aug31

August 1994--Story--81--What did they know that we did not know? MOST OF FISKE'S WHITEWATER LEGAL STAFF WON'T SERVE UNDER STARR By Marilyn W. Thompson -- Key prosecutors in the Whitewater investigation have told independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr that they will leave as soon as he can hire a new staff, a development that is likely to cause delays into the sensitive probe of President Clinton's financial affairs. (WASHINGTON POST, 751 words ), Aug 31

August 1994--Story--83--This was just the beginning of a long-term attack. CRITICISM ASIDE, CLINTON MAY HAVE THE LAST LAUGH -- For most of the last year, the media have delivered sky- is-falling reports about President Bill Clinton's troubled presidency. Predictions of disaster for Clinton are so routine that it may become difficult to recall which incident might be most significant in determining his eventual, but apparently inevitable, political demise. (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 620 words), Aug 31

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