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March 1994 -Story 1 - Investigative reporting would have discovered that David Hale was scamming an out-of-state company with promises of influence with Clinton. Hale got the money, the out-of-state company did not get the contract. WITNESS QUOTES JUDGE AS SAYING CLINTON WAS INVOLVED IN LOAND FIRM LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- As early as 1989, a municipal judge boasted that Bill Clinton was involved in the judge's loan company, which is now part of the Whitewater criminal investigation, a businessman testified yesterday. (BALTIMORE SUN, 340 words), Mar 1

March 1994 -Story 2 - Get Altman out of there before he begins to ask about the meetings in the Bush White House about Silverado pertaining to Neil Bush GOP ASSAILS RTC HEAD'S WHITE HOUSE VISIT By Charles R. Babcock Congressional Republicans yesterday continued to question the propriety of a meeting in which Roger C. Altman, acting head of the Resolution Trust Corp., briefed White House officials on the agency's probe of a failed Arkansas savings and loan with ties to President Clinton. Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), ranking minority member of the House Banking Committee, called Altman's meeting with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and other officials an "ethical umbrage." In asking federal ethics officials to determine whether the meeting violated any government ethics rules. Leach said that in his opinion, the early February meeting compromised the RTC's independence. Leach said Altman immediately should resign from all his duties as acting RTC chairman. Altman has said he will leave the acting position at the end of March. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 2

March 1994 -Story 3 The Washington Post and the GOP start up HubbellGATE LAW FIRM PROBING HUBBELL - BILLING IRREGULARITIES ALLEGED CLINTON AIDE DENIES WRONGDOING By Susan Schmidt The Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., has been investigating the billing practices ofAssociate Attorney General Webster L. Hubbell during the time he was a partner in the Rose firm. The investigation, which is being conducted by senior partners of the firm, focuses on whether Hubbell overbilled clients and used law firm money to pay for personal expenses, according to sources close to the firm. The internal investigation began in the summer of 1992, and the firm is considering notifying the Resolution Trust Corp. and several other major clients of billing irregularities, according to a source familiar with the matter. The firm also has been weighing whether to inform the state bar association. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 2

A TOP JUSTICE AIDE DENIES CHEATING ON BILLING AT EX-LAW FIRM (BOSTON GLOBE, 609 words), Mar 3

March 1994 -Story 4 - Hillary Clinton is much too popular. DOCUMENTS EXPAND ON FIRST LADY'S ROLE IN LAWSUIT AGAINST CLINTON FUND-RAISER Court documents on file here show that Hillary Rodham Clinton may have played a more extensive role than the federal government has described in pursuing a lawsuit against Clinton friend and campaign fund-raiser Daniel Lasater. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has said its review of Mrs. Clinton's involvement in the case showed that her name appeared on one document signed on behalf of her former Rose Law Firm partner Vincent Foster Jr. and that she billed their client, the (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 241 words). Mar 3

March 1994 -Story 5 - FosterGATE. WHITEWATER PROBER EYEING FOSTER DEATH. WASHINGTON -- The Whitewater special counsel is hiring pathologists to re-evaluate whether the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was a suicide. (BALTIMORE SUN, 298 words), Mar 3

March 1994 -Story 6 -- How to use the English language to to DECEIVE (note the words in bold type) TREASURY OFFICIALS TOLD WHITE HOUSE STATUS OF SL PROBE By Ann Devroy and Susan Schmidt Treasury Department officials twice informed the White House last fall of the status of a federal investigation [L. Jean Lewis] into an Arkansas savings and loan with ties to President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, administration officials said yesterday. The discussions came just after the Resolution Trust Corp. [L. Jean Lewis] had asked the Justice Department to investigate possible criminal activity in connection with the thrift, Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. The RTC [L. Jean Lewis] description of that activity included references to the Clintons as potential beneficiaries of illegal Madison actions, but did not accuse them of engaging in anything illegal.

RTC officials said yesterday that "criminal referrals" are confidential legal documents [Susan Schmidt had a copy of the 1992 L. Jean Lewis criminal referral by early September 1992, and a copy of all L.Jean Lewis referrals by October 1993] that are virtually never discussed with those named in them. Without acknowledging that the discussions were in any way improper, White House Chief of Staff Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty yesterday warned senior officials against contacts with officials from Treasury, the RTC or others outside the White House involved in the case. McLarty also has prepared a staff memo that is to be widely circulated that makes the same point. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 3

March 1994 -Story 7 - How to spread the deception. WHITE HOUSE HAD S&L PROBE DETAILS LAST FALL [First two paragraphs of Washington Post story.] (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 154 words.) Mar 3

March 1994 -Story 8 - HubbellGATE Follow-UP and to spread the story around. HUBBELL CONFIRMS QUESTIONING By Michael Isikoff and Ruth Marcus Associate Attorney General Webster L. Hubbell acknowledged yesterday that his former partners at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., recently questioned him about billings to clients and expenses charged to the firm, but denied he had done anything improper. "I am not aware of any 'investigation' {by the Rose firm} , and I have never overbilled a client," said Hubbell, a former partner in the firm that also included Hillary Rodham Clinton and former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster Jr. When questioned last week by the firm about his billing practices, "I responded promptly," he said. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 3

March 1994 -Story 9 -- The GOP and the Media do not want to talk about HEALTH CARE, GUN CONTROL, OR THE BUDGET. WE'RE FRESH OUT OF SCANDALS? LET'S REHASH THE OLD ONES We're fresh out of scandals? Let's rehash the old ones We are in a dangerous period. You can look at the headlines and see the problem. There are stories on health care and gun control and budget meetings. Like anyone's going to read them. (BALTIMORE SUN, 707 words), Mar 4

March 1994 -Story 10 That's more like it! HEADS UP OR COVER UP? Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Roger Altman, who is also acting director of the Resolution Trust Corporation, has recused himself from the RTC investigation into Madison Guaranty S&L. Why? Because he had to. The day before he acted it came out in a Senate committee hearing that in early February he had briefed White House staff members, including the White House chief counsel and Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff, on the course of the investigation. That was highly inappropriate. (BALTIMORE SUN, 409 words), Mar 4

March 1994 -Story 11 - HubbellGATE - The Washington Post and the GOP keep the story rolling with allegations from anonymous sources RENO SUPPORTS HUBBELL, SAYS NO INQUIRY PLANNED RTC BEGINS ITS OWN PROBE INTO BILLING BY ARKANSAS LAW FIRM ON S&L MATTERS By Michael Isikoff and Susan Schmidt Attorney General Janet Reno said yesterday she has full confidence in Associate Attorney General Webster L. Hubbell and plans no internal department inquiry into questions about his past client billings and expenses at the Rose law firm in Little Rock, Ark. Referring to a Washington Post story that first disclosed an internal law firm inquiry into Hubbell's activities, Reno said at her weekly news conference that she "knew nothing" about the matter until this week and was satisfied once Hubbell explained it to her. "My father taught me especially never to believe everything that you read in the newspaper that makes allegations without at least one identified source," said Reno. "I have worked with Webb Hubbell for a year now. I have been extraordinarily impressed with his honesty, his candor, his professionalism, and the sacrifices he's making to serve the American people." (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 4

March 1994 -Story 12 - A lot more ink on the West Coast CLINTON ACKNOWLEDGES MISTAKES NEW S&L DEVELOPMENT PUTS THE ADMINISTRATION IN A TIZZY President Clinton today said the White House has put up "a clearand appropriate fire wall" to avoid improper contacts between hisstaff and an investigation into an Arkansas thrift with ties to theClintons.''I want this thing to be done fully, clearly and to be over with,"Clinton said at an East Room news conference. He refused to comment onwhether White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum should resign over hishandling of the matters related to the inquiry.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 708 words.) Mar 4

CLINTON ACKNOWLEDGES MISTAKES - NEW S&L DEVELOPMENT PUTS THE ADMINISTRATION IN A TIZZY Same Text as above. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 664 words.) Mar 4

WHITEWATER INQUIRY SWAMPS WHITE HOUSE CONTROVERSY: ADVISERS MET WITH TREASURY OFFICIALS. Same Text as above. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 328 words.) Mar 4

March 1994 -Story 13 - The "incredible cynicism' CLINTON CREDIBILITY President Clinton remarked the other day that he was stunned, stunned by the ``incredible cynicism'' he encounters in Washington. There's an assumption, he went on, that ``on the most minor matters you're not telling the truth.'' (BALTIMORE SUN, 416 words), Mar 5

WHITE HOUSE LAWYER LIKELY TO QUIT - SUBPOENAS ADD TO PRESSURE FOR DAMAGE CONTROL Under attack for ethical missteps [?] that have embarrassed PresidentClinton, White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum was expected to resign as early as today, as the administration sought to contain mounting damage from the Whitewater affair.The latest blow to Clinton came Friday night as the FBI -- acting on behalf of the special prosecutor investigating Madison GuarantySavings & Loan and its connections with Whitewater Development Corp.-- delivered subpoenas to White House officials seeking document (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 973 words.) Mar 5

March 1994 -Story 15 - Meanwhile, down in Arkansas, The Washinton Post, The New York Times, (and the Washington Times) keep the Shredding Story going. ROSE LAWYERS SAY SHREDDING WAS UNRELATED TO FOSTER PROBE By Susan Schmidt Documents shredded last month by a courier at the Rose law firm in Little Rock, Ark., contained firm financial statements and minutes of partnership meetings. according to firm lawyers, and not sensitive materials handled by Vincent Foster, who served as deputy White House counsel before his suicide last July. But investigators reexamining the circumstances of Foster's suicide and the law firm's relationship to the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan have questioned the courier, Jeremy Hedges, a college student employed by the firm, before a federal grand jury, according to sources close to the firm.

(The two stories I was so fond of were a Washington Times report [the Rev. Moon's radical right wing paper in Washington] on allegations that the Rose Law Firm shredded Whitewater documents and a New York Post report [Rupert Murdoch's radical right wing newspaper in New York] that three Fairfax County paramedics said the scene didn't convince them Vince Foster committed suicide.)

Whitewater had disappeared from the news until Oct. 31 when Ms. Schmidt reported the Resolution Trust Corp.'s probe of Madison Guaranty S&L and its criminal referral to the Justice Department. The Post followed in the next weeks with major investigative reports and has produced 30-plus enterprise stories since.

March 1994 -Story 17 - Let us explain. DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WHITEWATER IS ABOUT? The Whitewater affair has its roots in the early business dealings of President and Mrs. Clinton in Arkansas. It derives its name from Whitewater Development Corp., a real-estate venture that the Clintons and their partners, James and Susan McDougal, formed in the late 1970s to build a vacation and retirement community along the White River in northern Arkansas' Ozark Mountains (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 241 words). Mar 6

March 1994 -Story 21 - They did it to themselves -- the Media had nothing to do with it. WHITE HOUSE DEEPENED OWN WHITEWATER WOES When President Clinton reluctantly agreed to the appointment of aspecial counsel on Whitewater in January, the most compelling argumentwas that an independent investigation would shield the president fromfurther political battering and free him to pursue the change hepromised the nation.Less than two months later, Clinton and his White House staff find themselves deeper in a hole than when they started. By even their own accounts, it is a hole they dug themselves.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 795 words.) Mar 6

March 1994 -Story 22 - They can not do anything right. CLINTON SCANDAL HITS HOME BIG TROUBLE: SUBPOENAS, TOP LAWYER'S RESIGNATION SHAKE WHITE HOUSE. The clumsy response and tin ears of all the president's men to the growing Whitewater scandal led to the resignation Saturday of Bernard Nussbaum, the top White House lawyer.In a letter released by the White House, Nussbaum went out with a defiant blast, saying his critics "do not understand, nor wish to understand, the role and obligations of a lawyer, even one acting as White House counsel." Because of that, he wrote President Clinton, "I now believe I can best serve you by returning to private (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 819 words.) Mar 6

March 1994 -Story 23 - Suspicious tax deductions in large amounts. CLINTON TAX DEDUCTIONS SCRUTINIZED - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- President and Hillary Rodham Clinton deducted from their personal income taxes more than $1,400 in Whitewater-related property taxes for which two business associates said the Clintons were reimbursed. A copy of a Whitewater Development Corp. check register, obtained by the Associated Press, indicates a check was written to repay Mrs. Clinton for at least one of the payments, which totaled approximately $144. (BOSTON GLOBE, 434 words), Mar 7

March 1994 -Story 24 - WHITEWATER DAM MAY BREAK - DEMOCRATS ACCEPT CLINTON'S CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE IN ARKANSAS AFFAIR, BUT REPUBLICANS MOVE TO FORCE DISCLOSURE For months, Republicans have pressed the White House and congressional Democrats to look into the involvement of federal agencies in the Whitewater affair. For months, the White House and Democrats have replied with a football stiff-arm. Now President Clinton is about to reap the whirlwind of that policy on Capitol Hill. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 460 words). Mar 7

March 1994 -Story 25 - CLINTON APPARENTLY HAS IGNORED WATERGATE LESSON. President Clinton's decision to drop White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum and issue strict orders against further back-channel contacts with the Whitewater investigation came only after a belated realization that the growing appearance of a cover-up might prove more damaging than the ill-starred real estate deal itself. (BALTIMORE SUN, 602 words), Mar 7

March 1994 -Stories 26 and 27 - In case you missed anything on Whitewater CLINTON: 'WE ARE NOT COVERING UP' ON WHITEWATER President Clinton said today he had been unaware of two White Housemeetings in which his advisers discussed the Whitewater investigationwith Treasury Department officials involved in the probe. Heforcefully defended his wife and said he was sure she had done nothingwrong.At a White House news conference dominated by the Whitewaterinvestigation, Clinton said the White House was cooperating fully withinvestigators. He scoffed at Republican comparisons with Watergate. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 804 words.) Mar 7

HIS OWN ETHICS RULES VIOLATED? - OUSTED COUNSEL NUSSBAUM'S ACTIONS SEEM TO CONTRADICT HIS DENIAL OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR IN TREASURY MEETINGS Essentially the same text. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 471 words). Mar 7

March 1994 -Story 28 Watergate -An inference from the presidential press conference PRESIDENT'S PRESS CONFERENCE EVOKES PARALLELS WITH WATERGATE - WASHINGTON -- Two decades ago, President Richard Nixon made his famous "I am not a crook" declaration. Yesterday, President Clinton, in perhaps the most extraordinary press conference of his term, faintly echoed the past as he told an East Room gathering of reporters: "We are not covering up." The parallels between Nixon's handling of Watergate and Clinton's dealing with the Whitewater matter were many. (BOSTON GLOBE, 576 words), Mar 8

March 1994 -Stories 29, 30, and 31-- Galantry, Obstruction, and Clumsiness PRESIDENT DEFENDS FIRST LADY'S CONDUCT President Clinton, thumping on his lectern and clenching his teeth in anger, made an impassioned defense yesterday of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as her role in the Whitewater affair came under increased scrutiny. (BALTIMORE SUN, 857 words), Mar 8

IN THE WHITEWATER INQUIRY, 'OBSTRUCTION' IS A KEY WORD When presidential counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum met with Jean Hanson, his Treasury Department counterpart, last Sept. 29, he exposed President Clinton to an allegation that has terrorized elected officials here since the Watergate scandal: obstruction of justice. That meeting, at which Nussbaum was told that the president's name had been linked by federal investigators [L. Jean Lewis] to possible criminal behavior in the case of a failed Arkansas savings and loan, has suddenly become a focal (BOSTON GLOBE, 1050 words), Mar 8

March 1994 Story 32 - A possible impeachment? A FRIEND OF THE PRESIDENCY When Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, raises the possibility on national television that President Clinton may not get to serve out his term, and links ``Whitewater'' to ``Watergate,'' it is obvious that raw politics is at work. Same thing when Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., says that Whitewater could be a ``greater'' scandal than Watergate. President Clinton has a right to object, as he did yesterday, to such partisans' ``careless use of the language.''(BALTIMORE SUN, 481 words), Mar 8

March 1994 - Stories 33, 34, and 35 -- What's Whitewater? Well, here are three more stories CLINTON DEFENDS WHITEWATER ROLE - Q & A: HOW THE CONTROVERSY AROUND CLINTON AND THE WHITEWATER AFFAIR UNFOLDED. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about the Whitewater controversy: Q What is Whitewater Development Corp.? (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 736 words.) Mar 8

March 1994 - Story 38 - The "C" Word --- THE COST OF A COVERUP There can be no greater threat to the Clinton presidency than a coverup of alleged misconduct. The outgoing White House counsel, Bernard Nussbaum, and Hillary Rodham Clinton should know that -- they were both Watergate lawyers -- and they should have so advised the president. Richard Nixon's original abuses of power were, of course, much graver than any of the misdeeds imputed to the Clintons in Arkansas. The obstructions of justice Nixon approved during his coverup and his defiance of (BOSTON GLOBE, 281 words), Mar 9

March 1994 - Stories 39 and 40 -- We must not forget Hillary. THE BLOOM'S OFF HILLARY The sheen is off the rose for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. As the convoluted Whitewater affair develops into a potentially more sordid affair, it is Hillary, and only secondarily Bill, who is reaping the most bitter criticism. (BALTIMORE SUN, 688 words), Mar 9

March 1994 - Story 41 - This is the newspaper that slept through the looting of American savings and loans during the Reagan-Bush years, including some highly suspicious activities of President Bush and three of his sons during this time. FILE SEARCH INDICATES OTHER SL CONTACTS EXCHANGES WITH TREASURY CALLED 'TRIVIAL' By Ann Devroy Massive White House and Treasury Department file searches the past 48 hours produced evidence of numerous additional contacts of an unspecified nature between officials of the two agencies relating to the defunct Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. . . . Last week's revelations of three undisclosed contacts [three = numerous in Washington Postspeak] between senior White House officials and Treasury officials familiar with investigations of Madison set off a political furor. The week ended with the resignation of White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and the Friday subpoenas of 10 White House and Treasury officials. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 9

March 1994 - Story 43 - Bungling and another comparison to Whitewater. HIGH-LEVEL BUNGLING BRINGS BACK 1970S - WATERGATE-ERA CONGRESSMEN CITE RECURRENT WEAKNESS Bungling by high-level White House staffers is the only thread so far between the Whitewater affair and the Watergate scandal that drove Richard M. Nixon from the presidency 20 years ago, two Ohioans who served in Congress during Watergate said Tuesday. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 439 words). Mar 9

March 1994 - Story 44 - Senator D'Amato had "rejected all of the wild speculation." MOLE HILL DEVELOPED INTO A MOUNTAIN Sen. Alfonse D'Amato will be the first to admit that he didn't think there was much there when he started poking around the Whitewateraffair late last fall.''It didn't seem like anything big," the New York Republican said in an interview Tuesday. "I rejected all the wild speculation."(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 760 words.) Mar 9

March 1994 - Story 45 -- Watch your mouth, Fiske. You are being too fair and objective. BACK OFF, FISKE URGES CONGRESS GOP SENATORS SAY NO, BUT AGREE WITNESSES WON'T GET IMMUNITY The special prosecutor in the Whitewater affair said today the White House was being "very responsive and cooperative" and urged Congress to hold off any hearings until he determines whether the administration meddled in the investigation.With White House aides preparing to testify before a federal grand jury and the administration collecting subpoenaed documents, special counsel Robert Fiske met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill hoping to convince them not to complicate his investigation by calling (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 869 words.) Mar 9

March 1994 - Story 46- The News of the SHREDDING Reaches Ohio via the Washington Post WHITEWATER POT CONTINUES TO BOIL - LAW FIRM EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE SHREDDED EVIDENCE KNOWINGLY The Whitewater affair stayed hot on the front burner Tuesday. An employee at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., said he knew that a special prosecutor was looking into the suicide of White House aid Vincent W. Foster when he shredded files belonging to Foster at his former law firm. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 701 words). Mar 9

March 1994 - Story 47- The News of the SHREDDING Reaches the West Coast via the Washington Post, the New York Times and ABC News JEREMY HEDGES, A ROSE LAW FIRM COURIER, SAID HE WAS TOLD TO SHRED VINCENT FOSTER'S FILES AFTER THE APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT FISKE. COURIER CITES SHREDDING AFTER PROBE WAS SET The law-firm employee who testified before a federal grand jury about destroying documents from the files of Vincent Foster now says he was told to shred the material after a special prosecutor had announced he would look into the suicide of the White House aide.Jeremy Hedges, a part-time courier at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., pinpointed the date in a telephone interview Tuesday.Hedges said that when he had fed the documents into the firm's shredder, he had already heard of the appoint (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 779 words.) Mar 9

March 1994 - Story 48 - The trek to the Grand Jury. HILLARY CLINTON AIDE GOES BEFORE GRAND JURY The first of six subpoenaed White House officials went before a federal grand jury today to testify about the tangled Whitewater affair. President Clinton's aides also were ready to deliver a stack of documents to the grand jury. (BALTIMORE SUN, 865 words), Mar 10

March 1994 - Story 52 - They dared to question the ways in which we made money during the 1980's! WHITE HOUSE LEARNS PITFALLS OF MORAL FINGER-POINTING One Whitewater puzzle is this: Why have the Clintons been so ruinously resistant to revealing everything about what probably are, at worst, dealings too minor and complicated to arrest the nation's attention, and concerning which a political statute of limitations has expired because an election has intervened? The answer may be: Revelation would disarm an administration dependent on sowing moral disdain for opponents. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 822 words). Mar 10

WHITEWATER AS IMAGE: THAT'S WHAT THE COVER-UP SEEMS TO BE ABOUT Same Text As Above (BALTIMORE SUN, 773 words), Mar 10

March 1994 - Story 53 Cutler to the rescue. CALLING CUTLER - BILL CLINTON HAS CALLED ON ANOTHER OLD WASHINGTON HAND TO RESCUE HIS PRESIDENCY. THE LESSON THIS TIME: DISCLOSE, DISCLOSE, DISCLOSE Well, here we are again. His presidency barely a year old, Bill Clinton has hired another Washington insider to put things in order in the White House. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 598 words). Mar 10

March 1994 - Story 54 - Looking forward to the CONTRACT ON AMERICA AMERICAN AS FED UP WITH POLITICS, WANT DRASTIC CHANGES, ANALYSTS SAY Only a year after their votes swept a new president and more than 100 new members of Congress into office, Americans seem more fed up with politicians than ever, and their sour mood is giving a boost to efforts to overhaul the machinery of government. (BALTIMORE SUN, 672 words), Mar 10

March 1994 - Story 55 - How else to derail health care reform? GOP SENATORS INSIST CONGRESS CONDUCT WHITEWATER HEARINGS Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske said Wednesday that hewould try to conclude his questioning of Clinton aides quickly so thatCongress could launch its own investigation of the controversy without damaging his.But Fiske's promise failed to deter key Republicans from pushing for early full-scale congressional hearings.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 296 words.) Mar 10

March 1994 - Story 59 - The Smear is finally showing results! MANY FAULT PRESIDENT ON ETHICS, SURVEY FINDS More than 60 percent of those questioned in a new USA Today-CNN-Gallup Poll believe President Clinton probably has done something unethical or illegal in connection with the Whitewater affair. The nationwide telephone poll of 1,023 adults, who were questioned on Monday and Tuesday, found that 49 percent believe Congress should hold hearings and 43 percent think it should not. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percent. (BOSTON GLOBE, 234 words), Mar 11

March 1994 - Story 62 -- What do you think Whitewater was all about? WHITEWATER COULD RUST CLINTON'S TRUST - PRESIDENT WILL LIKELY HAVE A HARDER TIME GETTING HIS AGENDA PASSED IN WAKE OF INQUIRY, GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS Americans so far have tended to give President Clinton the benefit of the doubt on questions of judgment. But the spectacle of top White House aides testifying before a grand jury brings the issue of trust to the fore and could undercut his administration's ability to perform. Clinton has been able to spring back from crises before, ranging from gays in the military to a $200 Hollywood haircut to the firings of the White House travel office staff. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 793 words). Mar 11

March 1994 - Story 65a - Meanwhile, quietly working away to subvert the presidency --- The Washington Post and GOP and L.Jean Lewis Connection. WHITEWATER INVESTIGATORS COMPLAIN OF PRESSURE By Susan Schmidt Investigators for the Resolution Trust Corp. [L.Jean Lewis] have complained privately that they felt pressured by agency lawyers to play down the involvement of President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in their preparation of criminal referrals involving the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, according to agency sources. [L.Jean Lewis]

Their concerns were highlighted yesterday by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), who is spearheading a congressional probe of Whitewater. In a confidential memo to special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr., Leach outlined concerns about pressures on RTC officials in Kansas City, Mo., who investigated the Clintons' Ozarks land venture and its Madison connections. He declined to discuss specifics publicly, citing the need to protect the officials. . [L.Jean Lewis]

March 1994 - Story 65b - Also playing in the East, the mid-West, and the West Coast - WHITEWATER PROBERS CITE PRESSURE - INVESTIGATORS FOR THE RESOLUTION TRUST CORP. REPORTEDLY SAID THE AGENCY'S LAWYERS WANTED THE CLINTONS' ROLE DOWNPLAYED. by Susan Schmidt- ( PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER , 735 words.) Mar 12

March 1994 - Story 66 -- Two interpretations of polls WHITEWATER PERPLEXES AMERICANS OUTSIDE D.C., MANY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT FUSS IS ABOUT, POLLS SHOW (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 498 words). Mar 12

March 1994 - Story 71 - Whitewater and Health Care. HEALTH PLAN SEEN FREE OF WHITEWATER SAME CHARACTERS INVOLVED, BUT OBSERVERS SAY INITIATIVE UNAFFECTED BY PROBE Despite dire predictions about the damage that it may do to the Clinton administration, the Whitewater affair has yet to make much of a dent in the president's major policy initiative -- health overhaul. Like events in the parallel universes of science fiction, the two matters are proceeding apace, each involving many of the same characters, but otherwise barely touching. (BOSTON GLOBE, 555 words), Mar 13

March 1994 - Story 73 - Four years and $40 million dollars later - we are still waiting. WHITEWATER IS 'NOTHING,' CUTLER SAYS - AIDE TAKES CLINTON CASE TO TV NEWS SHOWS White House counsel Lloyd Cutler said yesterday that the Whitewater affair "will turn out to be nothing at all." Republicans pushed harder for hearings, and a GOP senator questioned President Clinton's truthfulness. (BOSTON GLOBE, 504 words), Mar 14

March 1994 - Story 74 - Senator Alfonse D'Amato - "The stench that started in Little Rock has made its presence felt here." HUBBELL RESIGNS AT JUSTICE IN ROSE LAW FIRM DISPUTE- ACCUSED OF OVERBILLING CLIENTS, IMPROPER EXPENSES By Michael Isikoff Associate Attorney General Webster L. Hubbell abruptly resigned yesterday after he was unable to resolve disputes with his former partners at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., over allegations he overbilled clients and charged the firm for hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper expenses. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 15

March 1994 - Story 75 - HubbellGATE - Who does he think he is kidding? The Mainstream Media always knows what is true and what is not. JUSTICE AIDE INSISTS QUITTING ISN'T RELATED TO WHITEWATER Webster Hubbell is insisting his resignation as associate attorney general has nothing to do with the Whitewater affair dogging longtime friends Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.Instead, Hubbell says, his position as the Justice Department's No. 3 official was being undermined by controversy over "private issues" involving his previous work for the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 423 words.) Mar 15

HUBBELL SAY RESIGNATION UNRELATED TO WHITEWATER NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (BALTIMORE SUN, 537 words), Mar 15

March 1994 - Story 77 - Now, tax problems? HILLARY CLINTON HINTS AT TAX WOES- UNPAID LEVIES MAY STEM FROM WHITEWATER More damaging Whitewater news is coming, Hillary Rodham Clinton has hinted strongly, and there is a good chance it may be about unpaid taxes.''There were activities that we didn't know anything about that have only recently been brought to our attention," Clinton said in a Time magazine interview. "We didn't do anything wrong. We never intended to do anything wrong."(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 454 words.) Mar 15

March 1994 - Story 78 -- The Guns of August are distantly heard. GOP EXPRESSES MISGIVINGS ON FISKE - WHITEWATER SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IS CRITICIZED FOR HIS STANCE AGAINST HEARINGS<p> When administration officials picked Robert Fiske to be the independent counsel to investigate the Whitewater affair, they had hoped the appointment of a Republican would mollify the GOP and forestall the possibility of messy congressional hearings. But so far Fiske has hardly calmed the Republicans, and his effort last week to prevent hearings received a mixed response on Capitol Hill. (BOSTON GLOBE, 653 words), Mar 15

March 1994 - Story 79 --the first "closing" of the Foster case. FOSTER 'CASE IS CLOSED,' PARKS POLICE CHIEF SAYS The police chief who headed the investigation into the death of the White House deputy counsel, Vincent Foster, turned over his findings to the Whitewater special counsel yesterday, saying the documents should "put to rest" rumors that Foster was murdered, or his body tampered with after his death. "This case is closed," the US Parks Police chief, Robert Langston, said in an interview in which he outlined the findings of his report. Foster's death was "clearly a suicide," he (BOSTON GLOBE, 914 words), Mar 16

March 1994 - Story 80 - Alfonse D'Amato in judgement of Hillary Clinton THE MONSTER TURNS ON THE DEMOCRATS WHO CREATED IT When President Clinton averred that he had never known anyone with as strong a sense of right and wrong as Mrs. Clinton, it provided Sen. Al D'Amato, R-N.Y., the chance to get off the stinging rejoinder: ``That's the problem.'' (BALTIMORE SUN, 682 words), Mar 16

March 1994 - Story 81 - A story from Mr. Labaton of the New York Times - CLINTON AIDES REJECTED '93 PROBE OF MADISON - NEW QUESTIONS LIKELY IN WHITEWATER HEARINGS by Stephen Labaton Clinton administration officials last year rejected a recommendation by a senior regulator to open a Treasury Department investigation into the failed savings and loan association owned by President Clinton's former partner in the Whitewater venture, government and congressional officials said Tuesday. The request to open a broad investigation of the savings institution was made by Brian McCormally, the top enforcement official for the Midwestern division of the Office of Thrift Supervision, which ( SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 386 words.) Mar 16

March 1994 - Story 82 - The Vince Foster investigation would continue until after the 1996 presidential election. NEW COUNSEL STEADIES WHITE HOUSE STAFF - BRUTAL HONESTY CLEARS THE AIR Shortly after he was named White House counsel last week, Lloyd Cutler issued the kind of insightful but grim declaration that has given him a reputation for brutal honesty. "We all love conspiracy theories," Cutler told an interviewer on public television last Friday. "If you think of the way the Vince Foster suicide has lived on and all the different stories that are being bruited about, it's going to be like the Zapruder film and whether there was a single bullet that(BOSTON GLOBE, 758 words), Mar 16 [Linda Tripp was moved out of the White House Counsel's officer after Cutler arrived.]

March 1994 - Story 83 - "Law enforcement and congressional officials said yesterday . . . . ." [ AH, THOSE ANONYMOUS LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, AGAIN - Name them!] WHITEWATER SPECIAL COUNSEL CONSIDERS PROBE OF HUBBELL'S BILLING, SOURCES SAY The special prosecutor investigating President Clinton's real estate dealings in Arkansas is considering whether to examine the billing practices of Webster Hubbell, the associate attorney general, while he was in private practice in Little Rock, Ark., law enforcement and congressional officials said Wednesday. If Robert Fiske should decide to investigate the billings of Hubbell, who announced his resignationMonday, it would draw another top Clinton administration official into the widening criminal (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 330 words.) Mar 17

March 1994 - Story 84 -MORE CLINTON AIDES BEING QUERIED Prosecutors working for Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske planned to question more top Clinton administration officials today on meetings they held with government regulators. (BALTIMORE SUN, 334 words), Mar 17

March 1994 - Story 85 - There is a difference between conservative Republicanism and radical right wing Republicanism . . . WHITEWATER CLAMOR GALLS GOLDWATER - URGES HIS OWN PARTY TO LET CLINTON DO HIS JOB --- PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Washington should kill the clamor over Whitewater and let President Clinton do his job, former Sen. Barry Goldwater said yesterday. "I want to urge my Republican friends in Washington, and those Democrats who are participating, to get off his back and let him be president," Goldwater told reporters at his mountainside home above Phoenix. (BOSTON GLOBE, 209 words), Mar 17

March 1994 - Story 86 - A Reward for D'Amato ON WHITEWATER, D'AMATO HOLDS CLINTONS' FEET TO FIRE At a recent luncheon meeting of the 44 Republican senators, Bob Dole, the Senate minority leader, presented Alfonse M. D'Amato with a bottle of Whitewater cologne. (BALTIMORE SUN, 993 words), Mar 18

March 1994 - Stories 87 and 88 - The Media and the GOP Keep Up the Pressure - besides the election is just eight months away. GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS CLINTON'S CLOSE AIDE The grand jury investigating President Clinton's ties to the Whitewater case Thursday subpoenaed George Stephanopoulos, one of thepresident's closest advisers, to testify. Meantime, under pressure from Republicans to investigate the Whitewater case, the Senate on Thursday night voted, 98-0, to instructits leaders of both parties to meet to try to arrange public hearings.The vote does not necessarily mean hearings will take place any time soon.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 696 words.) Mar 18

March 1994 - Story 89 - Mr Labaton and Mr Gerth of the New York Times break the $100,000 commodities story. Funny, there is no mention that one of the SILVERADO FOUR gave $100,000 to Neil Bush for his commodoties trades, which he promptly lost. TOP ARKANSAS LAWYER HELPED HILLARY CLINTON TURN BIG PROFIT by Stephen Labaton and Jeff Gerth- Starting just before Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas, Hillary Rodham Clinton made about $100,000 in one year in the commodities market with the help and advice of a friend who was the top lawyer for one of the state's most powerful and heavily regulated companies. [This was the Tyson corporation. The Washington Post and New York Times subsequently alleged Tyson was provided favored treatment, another allegation that was later proven false.] The investments, made in a commodities-trading account that was opened three weeks before Clinton was elected governor in 1978, substantially altered the finances of the Clintons.

CLINTON INVESTMENT AID QUESTIONED - ARKANSAS LAWYER HELPED HER TURN BIG -- BUT LEGAL -- PROFIT IN '78 by Stephen Labaton and Jeff Gerth - Edited text of the above story. ( SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 527 words.) Mar 18

March 1994 - Story 90 --- WHITEWATER'S BIG CASUALTY There are many lies being told in Washington these days, but this may be the biggest: Whitewater hasn't had much of an effect on the country, or on the Clinton administration. The truth is that everybody at the White House isn't calmly proceeding as normal. It is more than the fact that a lot of senior and middle-level officials now have lawyers. It is that some things aren't happening. (BOSTON GLOBE, 743 words), Mar 18

March 1994 - Story 91 - Anyone foolish to take on a $13 TRILLION dollar industry deserves anything they get. ICKES FIGHTS TWO-FRONT WAR FOR CLINTON - A KEY PLAYER ON HEALTH CARE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF ALSO EMBROILED IN WHITEWATER Harold Ickes may hold the record for shortest amount of time taken by a new White House official to become mired in controversy. The deputy chief of staff had been in office for just a few hours on Jan.3, he said, when his new boss, chief of staff Thomas McLarty, asked him to lead the White House response to the Whitewater affair. Ickes, whose main job was supposed to be the crucial task of selling health care reform, agreed. (BOSTON GLOBE, 1114 words), Mar 19

March 1994 - Story 92 -- HubbellGATE -- An ethics complaint until Ken Starr took over. COMPLAINT AGAINST HUBBELL SOUGHT - ROSE LAW FIRM PURSUES PROBE OF HIS BILLINGS The Rose Law Firm has decided to file an ethics complaint against former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, and some of thefirm's partners are urging a review of the expense-account and billingrecords of other current and former Rose lawyers, including HillaryRodham Clinton, sources close to the firm said.Partners at the firm voted earlier this week to file an ethicscomplaint against Hubbell, a former Rose partner, with the Arkansasstate Supreme Court's Committee on Professional (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 485 words.) Mar 19

March 1994 - Story 93 -- A momentary respite . . . . THE PRESS IN PURSUIT-ABSTRACT SCANDALS, UNEVEN INTEREST. By Richard Harwood The Whitewater affair divides the country. It is also dividing the American press. Columnist Robert Samuelson says, "The purported scandal is so far a political vendetta draped in legal trappings. The trappings are essential, because it is the mere possibility of wrongdoing that justifies the ongoing media attention." Joe Klein of Newsweek speculates on the possibility that the Clintons will emerge from their present trials as innocent victims of press hysteria. In that event, he asks, "Do we, the righteous guardians of the truth, admit that we blew this all out of proportion -- or do we continue to puff motes into dust storms in order to justify our investment? The Clintons have earned their isolation. But they deserve a more sober hearing than this lunatic caldron." (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 19

March 1994 - Story 94 -- I wonder if the people writing this story were able to restrain their laughter. PRESIDENT MIGHT BE HELPED BY CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS The White House resistance to congressional hearings on Whitewater was no surprise. There are visions of President Clinton trying to negotiate a health care reform bill while the cameras are all focused on some committee poking through his financial history. (BALTIMORE SUN, 682 words), Mar 19

March 1994 - Story 98 - David Hale cops a plea. Jeff Gerth and the New York Times tell us about a true American patriot in disguise. ARKANSAS JUDGE, WHITEWATER COUNSEL REACH PLEA BARGAIN-FORMER INSIDER TO ASSIST PROSECUTOR'S INVESTIGATION by Jeff Gerth David Hale, a former municipal judge in Little Rock, Ark., who was facing trial on fraud charges later this month, has reached a plea agreement with the special prosecutor investigating the Whitewater affair, according to Hale's lawyer, Randy Coleman. Hale has said that Bill Clinton as governor of Arkansas twice pressed him in 1985 and 1986 to make a loan from the federally sponsored lending company he operated at the time that would have indirectly helped Whitewater Development Co., th

PLEA AGREEMENT REPORTED IN WHITEWATER CASE Edited text of above (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 216 words.) Mar 21

ARKANSAS 'INSIDER' COPS A PLEA IN WHITEWATER PROBE In the first major development of Whitewater prosecutor Robert Fiske's investigation, an indicted former judge who has linked PresidentClinton to a questionable loan has reached a plea agreement and willcooperate with investigators, a lawyer confirmed today.David Hale has already begun assisting investigators and will plead guilty to two charges at a federal court hearing Tuesday in LittleRock, Ark., according to his lawyer, Randy Coleman.(SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 711 words.) Mar 21

March 1994 - Story 100 --- But the Health Care Plan was killed by the GOP and the Health Care Industry -- IT'S HEALTH CARE, STUPID If President Clinton did not have health care reform as a daily subplot in the Whitewater melodrama, he would really be immersed in a sea of troubles. Health care is the issue that drives this administration, gives it purpose and, at the end of the day, may provide a legislative triumph shortly before the November congressional elections. (BALTIMORE SUN, 440 words), Mar 22

March 1994 - Story 101 --- The Washington Post story and fabrications on David Hale. CLINTON ACCUSER AGREES TO PLEA, TESTIFY By Howard Schneider and Susan Schmidt Former Little Rock municipal judge David L. Hale's decision to enter a plea in connection with a federal fraud case opens the way for special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske Jr. to bring a direct allegation against President Clinton before a grand jury. It also allows Hale to do what he has said he wanted to do since September: Tell in an official forum how Clinton and other influential Arkansans pressed him in 1986 to make loans to politically connected borrowers from his Small Business Administration-funded finance company. Hale's lawyer, Randy Coleman, said last night his client will plead guilty this morning to two felony charges -- one of them conspiring to defraud the SBA.

[Para 9]Hale is a Democratic activist with longstanding ties to McDougal, Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and others whose financial activities Fiske is trying to understand. [Testimony at the McDougal-Tucker trial in 1996 revealed that Hale had instructed a recipient of an SBA loan to take $2,000 dollars out of it (in violation of Federal law) and to donate it to the 1986 gubernatorial campaign of Republican Frank D. Wright, who had appointed him a municipal judge in 1981.]

[Para 15] [U.S. Attorney Paula] Casey's refusal to bargain with Hale also led to charges that she was trying to suppress information damaging to Clinton. Casey also declined to pursue a criminal investigation of Madison requested by the Resolution Trust Corp. [L. Jean Lewis] The RTC referral named the Clintons as possible beneficiaries of funds diverted from Madison. [This 1992 referral was turned down in 1993 because it had already been disapproved by Casey's Republican predecessor and the Little Rock FBI office in 1992.]

[Para 16] Interest in Hale's charge grew after it was disclosed that part of the loan money went to buy more land for Whitewater -- a transaction the Clintons say they knew nothing about. [James MdDougal was running properties and loans in and out of a number of accounts at Madison that he controlled, including the Whitewater account -- see the RTC investigation report on Madison.]

[Para 20] Hale in 1979 became one of the first members of a new municipal court established by Clinton and the state legislature, and ran successfully for reelection during the next decade. He resigned after his indictment. [This is a lie. Hale was appointed by Republican Governor Frank D. Wright in 1981.] (WASHINGTON POST), Mar22

EX-JUDGE HAS CHANCE TO AIR CLAIMS IN PLEA - CLINTON: ALLEGATIONS BULL' by Susan Schmidt As with most Knight Ridder papers - the Schmidt story out of the Washingon Post was the story used. (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER , 566 words.) Mar 22

March 1994 - Story 102---The Boston Globe on Hale (Hale's attorney also called the White House in an attempt to get Hale off -- they turned him down. HIGH STAKES PUT ON WHITEWATER FIGURE'S STORY - Ever since his office was raided by federal agents last summer, former Arkansas judge David L. Hale has reportedly sought lenient treatment from authorities by offering them a damning version of President Clinton's role in the Whitewater affair. Now, as part of a plea bargain he struck with Whitewater special counsel Robert B. Fiske, Hale is scheduled to plead guilty today and cooperate with investigators. The ex-judge says Clinton pressured him into making an improper (BOSTON GLOBE, 1151 words), Mar 22

March 1994 - Story 104 -- On again, off again. GONZALEZ CALLS FOR LAND-DEAL HEARINGS - HE HEADS THE HOUSE BANKING PANEL. "THE REPUBLICAN WITCH HUNT" ON WHITEWATER SHOULD BE EXPOSED, HE SAID. by Susan Schmidt The Democratic chairman of the House Banking Committee reversed course yesterday and joined the growing ranks in his party calling for congressional hearings on the Whitewater affair. "It is, I believe, time for Democrats to use the truth, the weapon Republicans fear most," said Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez (D., Texas). ( PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER , 521 words.) Mar 22

March 1994 - Story 105 On again. HOUSE DEMOCRATS AGREE TO PLAN WHITEWATER HEARINGS Under fire from Republicans, House Democratic leaders Tuesday agreed to plan hearings in the Whitewater case, but the timing, scope and avenue for the hearings were left undecided. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 445 words.) Mar 23

March 1994 - Story 107- This article is the most succinct statement of the Washington Post/New York Times/Republican Party allegations and charges on Whitewater - TRANSFERS FROM SL ARE CITED - LEACH ALLEGES 'SKIM' OPERATION By Susan Schmidt and Howard Schneider Rep. Jim Leach, the Republican leading the congressional Whitewater probe, yesterday charged that at least $70,000 in depositor funds at the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan ended up in an account maintained by President Clinton's Whitewater real estate venture. Moreover, Leach said, a Resolution Trust Corp. investigator [L. Jean Lewis] who led a team that uncovered the Whitewater transactions was told by an agency official last month that "head people" in Washington would be "happier" if they could show that the Clintons' investment caused no losses to Madison.

[Para 5] Leach (R-Iowa), who released documents he said support his allegations, said that internal pressures on Whitewater investigators investigator [L. Jean Lewis] become so intense as the findings of their probe became public that some have sought whistle-blower protection from the RTC inspector general. They [L. Jean Lewis] want to be able to speak with Whitewater special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. without clearance from their superiors, Leach said.

[Para 6] "Courageously, Kansas City investigators [L. Jean Lewis] refused to back the Washington position that Madison's losses were unrelated to Whitewater and pointed out to their superiors that in one intensely reviewed six-month period alone, approximately $70,000 was transferred from Madison and Madison affiliated companies to Whitewater," Leach said.

March 1994 - Story 109 -- A News Conference and the Reporting --Tax Returns and New allegations.

WHITEWATER CRITIC CITES COVERUP BY ADMINISTRATION President Clinton's chief Whitewater critic released records yesterday in which federal investigators [L.Jean Lewis] suggest that senior US banking regulators sought to influence their probe into an Arkansas savings and loan owned by a business partner of the president and his wife. Rep. Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who is a ranking member of the House Banking Committee, said in a speech on the House floor that attempts at influencing investigators are proof of a Clinton administration (BOSTON GLOBE, 800 words), Mar 25

March 1994 - Story 110 - The Washington Post --- Why don't you just admit you're guilty, Bill? TAX RECORDS BACK CLINTON ACCOUNT By Ann Devroy and Charles R. Babcock President Clinton yesterday released his tax returns for his first years in public office as the White House erupted in a geyser of tax forms, tax lawyers, explanatory letters and addenda aimed at showing that Whitewater was what the president has stated: a losing land investment. The returns -- for 1977-79 -- and additional data supplied by the White House generally support the amended Clinton explanation of the family's investment in the Arkansas land development and the losses they sustained.

March 1994 - Story 111- The New York Times and Jeff Gerth and the Knight-Ridder news chain on the release of the Clinton's tax returns. FORMS SHOW CLINTONS' INACCURATE DATA ON LOAN by Jeff Gerth Bowing to political pressure, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday released tax returns and other financial data that give the clearest picture to date of how the couple made and lost money early in Clinton's political career. The documents, which include tax returns from 1977 to 1979, show the Clintons nearly quadrupled their income in those years, from $41,731 to $158,495 in 1979. That increase was largely attributable to commodity trades by Hillary Clinton. The speculative trading, which netted (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 913 words.) Mar 26

March 1994 - Story 112 - The Washington Post and its anonymous sources -- the "Clinton" RTC appoints another Republican to investigate Clinton. RTC LAWYER DREW WHITE HOUSE IRE CLINTON AIDES QUESTIONED HIRING By Ruth Marcus A senior White House official inquired last month about removing a prominent Republican hired by the Resolution Trust Corp. to investigate claims arising from the failure of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The sources said senior White House officials George Stephanopoulos and Harold Ickes were alarmed and outraged when they discovered in late February that the RTC, an independent regulatory agency, had hired former federal prosecutor Jay B. Stephens to handle possible civil suits growing out of Madison. Stephens severely criticized the Clinton administration after he was fired as U.S. attorney for the District in March 1993. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 26

March 1994 - Story 113 - And the inevitable investigations. 2 INQUIRIES TARGET STEPHANOPOULOS- WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR, WHITE HOUSE FOCUS ON KEY CLINTON AIDE'S CALL ON REPUBLICAN THRIFT PROBER The White House and the Whitewater special prosecutor are conducting separate inquiries into whether an aide to President Clinton acted improperly last month by raising questions about the hiring of a high-profile Republican lawyer to look into the bankruptcy of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. White House Chief of Staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty ordered the internal review Friday after learning that the prosecutor was looking into a Feb. 25 conversation between (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 700 words.) Mar 27

March 1994 - Story 113 SHE BLEW WHISTLE ON WHITEWATER - DOCUMENTS SHOW FTC INVESTIGATOR'S ATTEMPTS TO SHINE LIGHT ON POSSIBLE FRAUD - Nearly two years ago, L. Jean Lewis, a federal investigator of financial fraud, fixed her attention on a collapsed Arkansas savings and loan, Madison Guaranty, run by a former business partner of Bill and Hillary Clinton. [L.Jean Lewis ran a team of investigators at the Kansas City regional office of the RTC. In Arkansas, there were eight S&L that had bailout costs of $50 million or more, including Madison. One of these. First Federal, had bailout costs of $833 million dollars, and also had Republican Party associations. Her team spent almost 2,700 hours investigating Madison (bailout costs $73 million) and 13 hours investigating First Federal.] She began to see a paper trail that included "a $1.5 million check-kiting scheme" and a pattern of suspicious loans and potential fiscal crimes, according to memorandums she wrote from her post at the Resolution Trust Corp., the federal agency charged with unraveling the (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 867 words). Mar 28

March 1994 - Story 116 WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, CLINTON HIDES BEHIND GOD President Clinton retreated into the final refuge of scoundrels last week: religion. He talked about his faith with ABC News. (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 638 words). Mar 31

March 1994 - Story 117 -- If it was good enough for L.Jean Lewis, it was good enough for me. LEACH'S WHITEWATER ASSERTIONS CONTRADICTED By Ruth Marcus Two senior officials of the Resolution Trust Corp. yesterday denied that they had asked an agency investigator to claim that the Clintons' Whitewater real estate investment was not responsible for any losses to Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the failed thrift owned by the Clintons' partner in Whitewater. (WASHINGTON POST), Mar 31

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