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HEADLINE: DEALINGS WITH FRIEND COULD PROVE DAMAGING TO CLINTON Same Text (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS , 1066 words.) Jan 2

January 1994 Story 2 It was deceiving . . . . it's not too long before another weakness appears. WHY CLINTON HAD SUCH A ROCKY YEAR It was deceiving to insist, as Hillary Rodham Clinton did recently, that in December the Clinton presidency was back in its stride and on top of the national polls -- if just beyond midfield, at 54 percent according to Gallup, can be called on top. And whenever Bill Clinton gets himself up, alas, it's not too long before another weakness appears (BALTIMORE SUN, 1,236 words) Jan 2

THE PRESIDENCY: A FAULTY SYSTEM? Same Text (STAR TRIBUNE [MPLS.-ST. PAUL] 1,181 words) Jan 3

REPUBLICANS SEEK SPECIAL COUNSEL ( THE STATE , 337 words.) Jan 3 SAME TEXT

RENO IS DRAGGING HER FEET, DOLE SAYS SENATOR WANTS ACTION ON CLINTON INQUIRY (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS , 415 words.) Jan 3 SAME TEXT

DOLE SAYS RENO IS STALLING ON ARKANSAS PROBE ( SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 155 words.) Jan 3 EDITED TEXT

RENO URGED TO LAUNCH PROBE OF FAILED THRIFT (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER , 491 words.) Jan 3 SAME TEXT

DOLE CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT COUNSEL - CLINTON'S DEALINGS WITH THRIFT QUESTIONED ( DETROIT FREE PRESS , 312 words.) Jan 3 SAME TEXT

January 1994 Story 5 Wishful Thinking? CAN 'COMEBACK KID' BOUNCE BACK AGAIN? Bill Clinton begins 1994 under a cloud that bears a startling resemblance to the one that darkened his path as he entered 1992. ( LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER , 743 words.) Jan 3

An Interlude for a National Problem - But the GOP and the Health Care Industry known there is more than one way to fight Health Care Reform - CLINTON HUDDLES WITH AIDES FOR HEALTH-REFORM PUSH -HE HAS MADE CLEAR THAT PASSING THE PLAN WILL BE THIS YEAR'S PRIORITY. - REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION IS STIFFENING. President Clinton called together his top health-care advisers for a photo opportunity and pep talk yesterday amid signs of stiffened Republican opposition to the administration's health-care reform proposals.(PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER , 521 words.) Jan 4

ARKANSAS PROBE SENSITIVE FROM START-INVESTIGATION OF COLLAPSED S&L AFFECTED BY LINKS WITH THE CLINTONS by Susan Schmidt and Michael Isikoff Last September, as officials of the Resolution Trust Corp. [L. Jean Lewis] were preparing to ask the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a failed Arkansas savings and loan, they faced an unusually sensitive problem: Should they mention that the case involved President Clinton and his wife? (Washington Post, Jan 5)

CLINTON'S LAND, S&L DEALINGS NEED OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION - ASKING AN ADMINISTRATION TO INVESTIGATE ITSELF IS ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE. EVEN IF THE INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETELY HONEST, WHO WOULD BELIEVE A NOT-GUILTY VERDICT? Republicans, who fought the independent-counsel law during the Reagan and Bush years and helped it to expire a year ago, are now clamoring for an independent counsel. This one would investigate not a Republican but Democratic president, Bill Clinton. (TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT , 360 words.) Jan 5

January 1994 Story 9 - The Ship is Sinking! WHITE HOUSE AGAIN REJECTS S&L PROBE Under mounting pressure, the White House today again rejected requests for an independent counsel to investigate a failed Arkansas savings and loan whose owner had ties to President Clinton. ''I don't think there's any change in our view here," press secretary

January 1994 Story 10- TrooperGATE is back again. CLINTON MOVES TO DODGE ANOTHER BULLET - Now that the dust has begun to settle, it appears that President Clinton is going to ride out the storm caused by the state troopers in Arkansas who claimed he used them to facilitate extramarital dalliances while he was governor. (THE BALTIMORE SUN, 680 words) Jan 5

January 1994 Story 11 - They're hiding things again! SUBPOENA ISSUED FOR CLINTON FILES WHITE HOUSE TO COMPLY IN S&L PROBE by Michael Isikoff and Ann Devroy The White House said yesterday that the Justice Department issued a previously undisclosed subpoena on Dec. 24 to President Clinton's lawyer for records relating to the Whitewater Development Corp. and that it will begin turning those documents over to federal prosecutors today. (Washington Post Jan 6)

January 1994 Story 13- Good Cop, Bad Cop! SPECIAL COUNSEL OVERDUE ON CLINTON, WHITEWATER The lament of White House aides that no more than Republican politics is involved in the call for a special counsel to investigate the Clintons' involvement in the Whitewater real estate deal is a classic case of whose ox is being gored. (THE BALTIMORE SUN, 679 words) Jan 6

January 1994 Story 15 - Someone Must Be Joking. CLINTON LAND DEAL: THE CONTROVERSY THAT REFUSES TO DIE Whitewater, Whitewater everywhere. Try as it might, the White House can't seem to make President Clinton's troubled Arkansas land deal go away. ( THE MIAMI HERALD , 602 words.) Jan 6

January 1994 Story 16 - What terrible secret . . . . . REVISITING A WASHINGTON TRAGEDY - THE CLINTONS' PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR IN WHITEWATERGATE HAS BEEN THAT OF WHEELER-DEALERS WITH SOMETHING TO HIDE. What terrible secret drove Vincent Foster, the Clintons' personal lawyer, to put a bullet through his head? When I posed that question last summer (Was dread of further scandal a triggering cause of the apparent suicide?) Clinton aides blamed Foster's state of mind on the cruel, mean-spirited Washington press corps, with its focus on ``travelgate.'' (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 758 words) Jan 7

January 1994 Story 17 - Still Hiding Things -see January 8 Washingtn Post story by Ann Devroy - CLINTONS `CRAFTED' TERMS OF FISCAL PROBE// LEGAL EXPERTS SAY PUBLIC ACCESS BLOCKED (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS , 594 words.) Jan 7

January 1994 Story 19 -Reno WILL RENO LIKELY TO SEEK PROSECUTOR IN PROBE - Attorney General Janet Reno has decided to ask a court to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate the Clintons' Arkansas land investments as soon as Congress enacts a law allowing it, senior Justice Department officials said Thursday.

January 1994 Story 20 -Reno MAY RENO SET TO MOVE ON CLINTON PROBE - SHE'LL ASK COURT TO NAME PROSECUTOR AFTER CONGRESS ACTS ( DETROIT FREE PRESS , 344 words.) Jan 7

January 1994 Story 21 -Reno WON'T JUSTICE DEPT. DENIES REPORT ON PROSECUTOR The Justice Department denied today that Attorney General Janet Reno had decided to seek a court-appointed special prosecutor to investigate failed Arkansas business ventures linked to President Clinton. Justice officials said Reno ultimately may make such a move but her decision would depend on Congress re-enacting the lapsed independent counsel law and on the language adopted. ( THE MIAMI HERALD , 251 words.) Jan 7

January 1994 Story 22 - I guess we should be thankful for the 'UNRELATED' CLINTON LAND DEAL PARTNER CHARGED IN UNRELATED THEFT CASE A partner of President Clinton in an Arkansas real-estate venture has been charged in California with embezzling nearly $200,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife, Nancy. ( SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 604 words.) Jan 7

[Para 7] A Justice Department spokesman would not comment on Kendall's request yesterday. But the former federal prosecutor with extensive Justice Department experience [political party?] said that what Kendall was seeking "is never done. When the Department of Justice subpoenas materials, it subpoenas materials. Period. They can share it" with any other part of the department authorized to conduct criminal prosecutions.

[Para 8] The White House had agreed to turn material over to the fraud unit of the Justice Department, which is investigating Whitewater and a failed Arkansas thrift, Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, which was owned by James McDougal. McDougal and his wife Susan were partners in Whitewater with Bill and Hillary Clinton. [emphasis added]

[Para 2] David Kendall, Clinton's lawyer, was rebuffed when he asked department officials to agree they would not share the material with the Office of Professional Responsiblity, the unit of the Justice Department that is investigating the handling of the suicide last July of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster. . [emphasis added]

[Para 6] A senior administration official said yesterday that Kendall "did say to the Justice Department that he did not want these documents to go to OPR. He wanted them protected from that kind of dissemination." The official said that Kendall's position to Justice was "they should not be turned over to OPR" unless OPR went to court to seek its own access to the records. There was no indication why Kendall sought to deny OPR access to the documents. [emphasis added]

January 1994 Story 24 RENO REJECTS OUTSIDE COUNSEL - SHE SAYS IT WOULD SLOW LAND-DEAL PROBE Attorney General Janet Reno on Friday formally rejected Republicandemands to name an outside prosecutor to investigate the Whitewateraffair, saying it would disrupt and delay the Justice Department'sprobe.Responding to suggestions by Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole that theWhite House -- not the Justice Department -- was running the case,Reno said career prosecutors are conducting it and that she had"ultimate responsibility" for its outcome. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 407 words.) Jan 8

January 1994 Story 28 - Turning up the heat in California SMELL OF SCANDAL - A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IS NEEDED IN WHITEWATER CASE Whitewater affair has the size, shape and raunchy scent of a scandal. Maybe, as President Clinton says, it's innocuous. But the deal raises disturbing questions about the president's judgment and honesty. The lingering odor of wrong doing won't go away until an objective investigator [like Ken Starr] looks at the affair and gives the nation an account of what happened.At issue are allegations that when Clinton was Arkansas governor, he improperly shielded James McDougal, a business partner, from investigators [L.Jean Lewis] (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 342 words.) Jan 10

AUDIT DETAILS ARK. S&L'S TROUBLES - A 1986 ASSESSMENT OF FAILED THRIFT DIFFERS FROM REPORTS BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S LAW FIRM. (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 621 words), Jan 10

January 1994 Story 30 - The White House was the only one in touch with reality. ANGER WON'T ANSWER QUESTIONS ON WHITEWATER. The White House strategy of going on the attack in the Whitewater Development Co. controversy suggests a White House out of touch with political reality. (THE BALTIMORE SUN, 673 words), Jan 11

January 1994 Story 31 -Note paragraph 3 - Clinton's Securities commissioner had been trying to close Madison and two other defunct Arkansas S&L as early as 1986-1987, but the Federal regulatory agencies were the only ones with authority to do this. The Reagan-Bush regulatory agency closed Madison in early 1989, allowing Sheffield Nelson a financial windfall from the corpse of the S&L. 9 DEMOCRATS JOIN CALL FOR PROSECUTOR CLINTON AIDES RECONSIDER WHITEWATER STANCE By Michael Isikoff and Ann Devroy Nine Democratic senators have joined the call for Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate President Clinton's investment in an Arkansas real estate development firm, intensifying the debate among White House aides yesterday about whether Clinton should abandon his opposition to such a move.

The Justice Department is investigating allegations that Madison illegally diverted depositor funds to Whitewater accounts to pay off Clinton's campaign debts from his 1984 gubernatorial race. [New York Times allegations of December 15, 1993] There have also been published suggestions that Clinton, while governor, gave lenient treatment to Madison, failing to quickly close the thrift when there was ample evidence of its insolvency -- a delay that helped swell the ultimate taxpayer cost to $60 million. (Washington Post, Jan 12)

January 1994 Story 34 - Guilty, Guilty. The subject of the Clintons' involvement in the Whitewater development project first came to public attention during the 1992 presidential primaries when Jerry Brown raised the matter. Bill Clinton's response to the allegation of impropriety was interesting. He didn't deny it. He didn't admit it. He just didn't answer it at all. Instead, he wagged a finger at Mr. Brown and warned him to stop ``jumping all over my wife.'' (THE

January 1994 Story 35 - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. FBI AGENTS WORKING IN ARKANSAS TO GATHER DETAILS ON WHITEWATER FBI agents are sweeping up land records that could provide authorities with the first complete financial portrait of a controversial real estate partnership between President Clinton, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the owner of a failed savings and loan. County officials said Wednesday that FBI agents had taken copies of deeds and other records of a project of the Whitewater Development Corp., the partnership at the center of the controversy. (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 426 words), Jan 13

January 1994 Story 36 - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. WHAT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL WILL WORK TO FIND OUT The independent counsel will have to address numerous questions to determine whether President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton or their associates broke any laws or acted improperly. Here are some key questions in the Whitewater case: Question: Was depositors' money diverted from Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan to help retire Clinton's 1984 gubernatorial campaign debt? (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 622 words), Jan 13

January 1994 Story 37 - Gotta watch that Clinton! WHITEWATER BOBBING AND WEAVING - President Clinton showed good judgment in deciding to seek an independent investigation of the Whitewater affair. But earlier White House indecision over the matter suggests that he and his aides do not realize that, far from being an exercise in damage control, the case involves issues of credibility important to his relationship with the American people. ( BOSTON GLOBE, 349 words) Jan 13

January 1994 Story - 38 - Good timing on that Whitewater Scandal - Completely fortitous, of course. EVENTS SEEN BLURRING HEALTH PLAN FOCUS PROPOSAL HIT BY CRITICISM, WHITEWATER ISSUE, SLOWDOWN IN MEDICAL INFLATION - WASHINGTON -- Less than two weeks before Congress begins debating the Clinton health plan in earnest, a string of unrelated events are conspiring to loosen the administration's tight rein on the issue. Chief among them: Republicans and even some Democrats are openly criticizing the plan as too ambitious; the growth of medical care costs has slowed, making reform seem less urgent; and the controversy over the Clintons' involvement in the Whitewater Development Corp. is threatening to (BOSTON GLOBE, 585 words), Jan 14

January 1994 Story 39 -West Coast LEST WE FORGET 1 CLINTON REQUESTS PROBE OF HIS BUSINESS DEALINGS PRESSURE FORCES HIM TO ASK FOR INDEPENDENT COUNSEL Surrendering to fierce political pressure, President Clinton on Wednesday asked for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate his private business dealings and "report to the American people." Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday evening that she would comply and said she had launched an immediate search to identify candidates. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 791 words.) Jan 13

January 1994 Story 40 - West Coast LEST WE FORGET 2 RENO TO APPOINT WHITEWATER COUNSEL CLINTON RELUCTANTLY CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION The special counsel investigation of the Clintons' 1980s Arkansas real estate investment will be "ruggedly independent" and include its relationship with a now-failed failed savings and loan, Attorney General Janet Reno says. President Clinton reluctantly called for the investigation Wednesday, dropping his opposition to an independent review after the White House concluded there was no other way to halt a growing political controversy. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 524 words.) Jan 13

January 1994 Story 41 - IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - The Media Announces Public Support of Probe. PUBLIC WELCOMES PROBE OF WHITEWATER, POLLS SAY. The latest round of public opinion polls suggests that the voters are sorting things out in ways that send clear messages to the White House. ( THE BALTIMORE SUN, 649 words), Jan 13

January 1994 Story 43 - Got Bill, now for Hillary . . . . It is the end of . . . WHITEWATER IS HILLARY CLINTON'S TO DEFEND It is the end of Hillary Rodham Clinton's first year in office. That description alone illustrates how successful she has been at transforming the notion of how the spouse of the president can serve the nation. Amid endless speculation about how much she could do and how openly she could do it, Hillary Clinton simply went to work on health care reform. When the president introduced his plan to the Congress, she was applauded enthusiastically. Polls suggest the American people applauded, too.

HILLARY'S QUAGMIRE - WHITEWATER MAY BE MORE HILLARY CLINTON'S PROBLEM THAN HER HUSBAND'S; SHE SHOULD DEAL WITH IT It is the end of . . . (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 785 words), Jan 14

January 1994 Story 44 - And Betsey EX-AIDE FACES SUBPOENA OVER CLINTON DEALS FBI HEADS EXPANDING PROBE OF S&L, LAND DEVELOPMENT FIRM The FBI has notified Betsey Wright, a senior aide to President Clintonwhen he was governor of Arkansas, that she will receive a grand jurysubpoena in the expanding investigation of Clinton's business dealings with the owner of a failed savings and loan, Wright acknowledged Friday.The FBI also subpoenaed documents this week from a small Arkansas bank that loaned Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, $50,000 to help finance his 1984 campaign for governor.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 724 words.) Jan 15

January 1994 Story 46 - And we must be sure not to forget Hillary. FIRST LADY A CENTRAL WHITEWATER FIGURE As the White House struggles to contain the controversy surroundingthe Clintons' involvement in the tangled Whitewater real estate andbanking affair, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's role has begun toraise as many questions as her husband's.Indeed, the Whitewater matter now seems to be a controversy befittingthe Clintons' modern, two-career political marriage: Just as the firstlady has played a critical role in major policy decisions on healthcare and other issues, she now finds herself a (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 677 words.) Jan 16

January 1994 Story 49 - Ah, but Slick Willie will find a way! S&L DIVERSION TO CLINTON IMPROBABLE, LAWYER SAYS REGULATORS WATCHED ACCOUNT, HE ASSERTS The attorney for a key figure in the Whitewater land deal insistedSunday that funds from a failed Arkansas savings and loan could nothave been diverted into Bill Clinton's gubernatorial campaign cofferswithout being noticed by a host of federal agents.Sam Heuer, attorney for James McDougal, president of the defunctMadison Guaranty Savings & Loan, said the only possible source ofdiverted funds would be Madison Guaranty's "cash account" -- a pot ofmoney that Heuer said "is the first thing the (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 435 words.) Jan 17

January 1994 Story 53- Morning If HE only knew. . . . . EX-U.S. ATTORNEY NAMED COUNSEL FOR WHITEWATER PLEDGES 'THOROUGH' INVESTIGATION Former Republican U.S. attorney Robert B. Fiske Jr. today was named special counsel to probe President Clinton's ties to a failed Arkansas savings and loan when he was governor. He pledged a "complete,thorough and impartial investigation." The appointment, announced by Attorney General Janet Reno at a morning news conference, came on the first anniversary of Clinton's inauguration.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 521 words.) Jan 20

January 1994 Story 54- Afternoon N.Y. LAWYER PICKED TO LEAD CLINTON PROBE - COUNSEL WILL REVIEW REAL ESTATE DEALS Attorney General Janet Reno has settled on Robert Fiske Jr., a NewYork lawyer and a Republican, to be the special counsel to investigatethe real estate investments of President Clinton, an administrationofficial said Wednesday.Reno and other senior Justice Department officials were describedWednesday as completing their work on the appointment and goingthrough a final background check on the selection before making theannouncement.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 444 words.) Jan 20

January 1994 - Story 56 - FosterGATE again PROSECUTOR VOWS TO EXAMINE SUICIDE OF CLINTON AIDE The special prosecutor chosen to investigate President Clinton'sArkansas land dealings said Thursday that he planned a broad, vigorous criminal inquiry that would include questioning the president andHillary Rodham Clinton under oath and an examination of any possible links between the land dealings and the suicide of a senior White House aide. The prosecutor, Robert Fiske, is a New York lawyer and formerRepublican U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Speaking with reporters Thursday after Attorney Genera(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 556 words.) Jan 21

January 1994 - Story 57- 'just go back to work' SOMBER CLINTON SAYS 'I LIKE THE JOB' DESPITE BAD TIMES President Clinton, taking stock of his presidency at the one-year mark, said he hopes an independent investigation of his real estate dealings a decade ago will quiet the controversy and allow him to"just go back to work." He shrugged off the bad days, saying, "that's part of life."A sometimes somber Clinton, clearly tired after a grueling start tothe new year, appeared Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live" program and fielded questions from a national TV audience that reflected the achievements (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 728 words.) Jan 21

January 1994 - Story 59 - In spite of this, Fiske was already coming under attack by the radical right wing of his party. HEADLINE: FISKE UNDER FIRE The special counsel in the Whitewater probe is under fire from conservatives, who are citing a 1984 court ruling that forced him to pay $14,000 in back taxes on a land transaction. Appointed to look into land deals involving President Clinton, special counsel Robert Fiske has become the focus of attacks by the Free Congress Foundation, which declared him unfit to serve. (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 118 words), Jan 22

January 1994 - Story 60 -- You don't have to investigate, Mr. Fiske. Here is the whole story from Jeff Gerth (Sheffield Nelson) and Susan Schmidt (L. Jean Lewis). WITH POLITICAL CONNECTIONS, ARKANSAS SL LIVED AND DIED By Susan Schmidt and Marilyn W. Thompson With flamboyant investments and risky lending, Madison Guaranty had transformed itself by 1985 into one of Arkansas' largest and most politically connected savings and loans. (WASHINGTON POST, Jan 24)

January 1994 - Story 61-Did They Cheat on Their Taxes, Too?

CLINTONS TOOK DEDUCTIONS FOR WHITEWATER INTEREST. Same Text (BALTIMORE SUN, 672 words), Jan 24

RECORDS: CLINTONS DEDUCTED PART OF WHITEWATER INVESTMENT Same Text (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 209 words.) Jan 24

January 1994 - Story 62 - Rupert Murdoch and FosterGATE. ARTICLE RAISES QUESTIONS IN FOSTER SUICIDE RULING . A report in the New York Post suggested yesterday that the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. might not have been a suicide. (THE BALTIMORE SUN, 435 words), Jan 28

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