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May 1994 Story--1--FosterGATE - The Second Suicide Investigation Special Prosecutor's Report May Shed Light on Foster Suicide Washington. -- Vince Foster still comes to his friends in the shadows as they walk to their cars, or at night on the drive home after work, or unexpectedly, in the morning after they rise. (BALTIMORE SUN, 2,410 words), May 1

BILL CLINTON IN A WORD: OILY (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 852 words), May 1

CLINTONS' UNCOMMON NEST EGG // RISKY INVESTMENTS DIDN'T REFLECT `FAMILY SECURITY' GOAL NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, 1,530 words), May 3

May 1994 Story --4-- FosterGATE - The Second Suicide Investigation FISKE REPORT NEAR ON FOSTER'S SUICIDE Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske has concluded that White House aide Vincent Foster killed himself and soon will issue a report wrapping up that part of his investigation, officials familiar with the inquiry said today. They said Fiske has told associates his report accepting the official police version that Foster committed suicide last year because he was depressed may be released by the middle of May. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 135 words) May 4

May 1994 Story --5-- It will get much worse. THE POLITICS OF HATE - At her press conference last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton turned aside a question about the politics of personal destruction. "I can't really help it," she said, "if some people get up every day wanting to destroy." The way she put it reflected the pain that she and the president have surely felt at the level of personal attack leveled at them in recent months. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 701 words) May 4

May 1994 Story --6-- PaulaGATE and Whitewater. Noted defense lawyer joins Clinton's team -- WASHINGTON -- Facing a possible sexual harassment suit as well as persisting Whitewater troubles, President Clinton has hired one of the nation's premier white-collar defense lawyers to try to control both legal and political damage. (BALTIMORE SUN, 456 words), May 4

May 1994 Story--7--CommoditiesGATE GROUP ASKS FIRST LADY FOR RECORDS - Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked Wednesday by a group of Senate Republicans to let the Chicago Mercantile Exchange release her commodity trading records. The eight GOP members of the Senate Banking Committee, in a letter to the first lady, said it would be ``very helpful to congressional investigative efforts'' if the records were provided. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 728 words), May 5

May 1994 Story --8--A Pause for a national problem. GROUP OF SMALL BUSINESSES BACKS CLINTON HEALTH PLAN WASHINGTON - President Clinton's health-care reform plan picked up key support yesterday from a group of small businesses that endorsed the idea of employer-paid health-care benefits for workers. (KR-PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 455 words), May 4

PROBERS REPORTEDLY CONCLUDE FOSTER'S DEATH WAS SUICIDE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 651 words), May 5

WHITE HOUSE ORDERED TO PRODUCED FOSTER DATA NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (BALTIMORE SUN, 366 words), May 6

SPECIAL COUNSEL SEEKS FOSTER MATERIALS NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (BOSTON GLOBE, 459 words), May 6

May 1994 Story--11-- FIRST LADY GLIDES THROUGH HOUR ON LIVE TV - Mixing policy talk with personal reflections, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton told a live TV audience Thursday that she chafes at the confines of White House life but loves to see what's getting done. Clinton, in an hourlong interview on CNN's ``Larry King Live,'' said she found the rumors that circulated after the suicide of White House deputy counsel Vince Foster about her relationship with Foster to be ``profoundly sad.''(KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 560 words), May 6

MISTRUST OF SUDDEN MEMORIES - ON HIS SIMPLE DENIAL OF A SEXUAL ALLEGATION, CLINTON DESERVES THE BENEFIT OF OUR DOUBT. NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 656 words), May 6

HARASSMENT IS WRONG, - BUT SO IS FALSE ACCUSATION NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 620 words), May 6

CLINTON MERITS BENEFIT OF DOUBT ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS (KR- ST PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 717 words), May 8

May 1994 Story--12-- And another form of reporting and writing headlines. IS PAULA CORBIN JONES ANOTHER ANITA HILL? WE INTERRUPT this presidency to bring you another Bimbo Eruption. For Bill Clinton, mini-scandals come and go like Arkansas gullywashers. The thunder's noisy, but he's always dodged the lightning. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 740 words) May 8

May 1994 Story--13--Whitewater and PaulaGATE, together. WHITE HOUSE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO PAY MOUNTING LEGAL BILLS The White House is studying ways President Clinton can pay mounting legal fees, including raising money from private contributors, a senior official said today. Bruce Lindsey, a top presidential adviser, said White House lawyers began discussing a legal defense fund after a former Arkansas state employee filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton last Friday. The suit, coupled with special counsel Robert Fiske's inquiry into Clinton's Whitewater land dealings, opens President and Hillary Rodham (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 345 words) May 9

WHITE HOUSE EYEING CLINTON DEFENSE FUND NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (BALTIMORE SUN, 271 words), May 9

WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS TO PROPOSE FUND TO HELP CLINTON PAY MOUNTING LEGAL BILLS A president paid $96 an hour cannot long afford a $450-an-hour lawyer. To solve the problem, White House lawyers plan to propose a legal defense fund for President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, top aide Bruce Lindsey said Monday. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 508 words) May 10

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND DEBATED NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 753 words), May 10

CLINTON DEFENSE FUND CONSIDERED - SOME QUESTION WHETHER HE SHOULD - TAKE GIFTS FOR MOUNTING LEGAL BILLS NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 457 words), May 10

May 1994 Story--14--A bit of irony. Has Clinton really been caught with his pants down? Let's see. For issues of the day, we've got Rwanda, Bosnia, health care, the dollar and the position of Clinton's pants. (BALTIMORE SUN, 728 words), May 10

May 1994 Story--15--PaulaGATE STRATEGIES GAUGED IN HARASSMENT SUIT - ASSESSING THE MESS OF SEX LAWSUIT AGAINST CLINTON - WASHINGTON -- The sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones against President Clinton could take years to resolve as each side tries to use the pretrial process to produce damaging information about its opponent, legal authorities said yesterday. Specialists said, for example, that it is possible that Jones could try to produce information about Clinton's sexual habits and practices to demonstrate an alleged pattern of behavior. Likewise, it is possible that Clinton's attorneys might (BOSTON GLOBE, 1,009 words), May 10

May 1994 Story--16--Sensitive to little gentle criticism? MRS. CLINTON DECRIES 'WITCH HUNTS' BY CRITICS - WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton says that she and her husband are being held to a higher standard than previous first couples and that the attention ''is just absurd." "I personally do not believe that this level of paranoiac, conspiracy- driven investigation is appropriate -- of anybody in public life, not just me," she said in an interview in the June issue of Vanity Fair. (BOSTON GLOBE, 377 words), May 10

FIRST LADY SOUNDS OFF OVER FUROR - INTERVIEW BLASTS PARANOIAC' MEDIA NEARLY THE SAME TEXT(KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 753 words), May 10

FIRST LADY LASHES OUT AT MEDIA - DEFENDS BILL, HERSELF; LABELS CLAIMS `ABSURD' NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM, 915 words), May 10

May 1994 Story--17--That was the intention. SEX ALLEGATION LEAVES MANY UNCERTAIN - ''MOST PEOPLE JUST WISH IT WOULD GO AWAY,'' SAYS NATIONAL WOMEN'S CAUCUS PRESIDENT. With Paula Jones' lawsuit against President Clinton, America is once again confronting the difficult, uncomfortable subject of sexual harassment allegations against a prominent politician. As radio and TV talk-show hosts crank up the volume, Americans are trying to distinguish between truth and fiction, as well as private and official behavior. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 846 words), May 10

May 1994 Story--18-- Clinton knew he was a target. 'Diversion and division' ploys target him, Clinton tells town-hall audience --- WASHINGTON -- President Clinton is urging Americans to defer judgment on questions about his character, contending he's the target of the ``constant politics of diversion and division and destruction.''(BALTIMORE SUN, 340 words), May 10

May 1994 Story--19--The Smear Has Only Started. Clinton has to expect more notice of his past - WASHINGTON -- President Clinton, asked at a town hall meeting in Providence, R.I., the other night whether he felt ``you're being held to a higher standard than previous presidential families,'' made the debatable reply that ``I think I've been subject to more assault than any previous president.'' (BALTIMORE SUN, 340 words), May 11

May 1994 Story--20--PaulaGATE linked to the Affairs of State. HE'S GOTTA HAVE IT // WHAT BILL CLINTON MIGHT HAVE DONE IN PRIVATE IS ONE THING, BUT WHAT ABOUT HIS POLITICALLY PROMISCUOUS BEHAVIOR IN THE AFFAIRS OF STATE? HE FLIRTS WITH POLICIES, JILTS ALLIES, AND LETS HIS EYES DRIFT WHENEVER A NEW IDEA WALKS BY. HE JUST WANTS EVERYONE TO LIKE HIM. Last Feb. 11, a former Arkansas state employee named Paula Jones called a press conference in Washington and claimed that on May 8, 1991 (MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, 2,357 words), May 11

YOUR GUIDE TO . . . CLINTON'S ANATOMY - I believed Anita Hill. I believe Paula Corbin Jones. I am inclined to believe there are a lot of powerful men out there making crude sexual overtures to women who work for them, with them or near them. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 714 words) May 12

May 1994 Story--21--What about no national health plan? Whatever the health plan, Clinton will call it victory -- WASHINGTON -- When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy proposed some significant changes in President Clinton's health care reform plan the other day, the president replied that they were ``a good place to start.'' (BALTIMORE SUN, 705 words), May 12

May 1994 Story--22--PaulaGATE. JONES GOT MERIT RAISE, AGENCY SAYS A former state employee who alleges in a lawsuit that she was penalized on the job after rejecting an advance by then-Gov. Bill Clinton was given a merit raise, an official with the agency that employed her said. In her $700,000 damage lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court Friday, Paula Corbin Jones contended she was punished on the job for rejecting an advance by Clinton in Little Rock during a state conference in May 1991. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 566 words), May 12

May 1994 Story--23--Let us not forget Whitewater. GOP LAWMAKER FILES LAWSUIT ON WHITEWATER Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, Wednesday sued federal regulators for release of documents relating to the Whitewater investigation, saying they cannot choose to withhold the material just because it might beembarrassing to the president. Leach, the ranking Republican on the House Banking Committee, for six months has been seeking documentsrelating to Whitewater and a failed Arkansas savings and loan, MadisonGuaranty. Most of his requests have been denied on privacy or othergrounds. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 89 words.) May 12

May 1994 Story--24-- Another Hillary Clinton Interview. HILLARY CLINTON CITES OFFICE'S TRIALS - WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton says her trials as first lady have ''taxed every fiber" in her body and broken her heart. In an interview in the June issue of Working Woman magazine, she said she was bewildered by all the attention focused on the Whitewater land deal and the "silly" conspiracy theories surrounding the Clinton White House. (BOSTON GLOBE, 66 words), May 13

May 1994 Story--25--CommoditiesGATE. CHASING A COLD PAPER TRAIL // BUY, SELL ORDERS COULD SHOW WHETHER FIRST LADY GOT IMPROPER, FAVORABLE TREATMENT Among stacks of confidential documents at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are customers' buy and sell orders seized during a 1979 (MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, 1601 words), May 15

May 1994 Story--26--FosterGATE or TreasuryGATE? FIRST PHASE OF WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION IS NEAR END, FISKE TELLS WHITE HOUSE By Ann Devroy and Susan Schmidt White House officials say Whitewater special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. has told them he is nearing the end of the first phase of his investigation, prompting their own internal investigation in preparation for summer congressional hearings (WASHINGTON POST,1144 words ), May 17

May 1994 Story--28--Whatever sells. TABLOID SMUT OR SOCIAL ISSUE? By Richard Harwood "Late last year," The Economist magazine reminds us, "the press had a choice between two sorts of potential presidential muck ... money and sex." We chose the money (Whitewater). The sex (new tales of philandering by President Clinton) was passed over. (WASHINGTON POST, 972 words), May 17

May 1994 Story--29-- Before the Clinton Health Care Reform Bill was killed. HEALTH CARE REFORM BOASTS ARE MOSTLY EMPTY - After endless churning on Whitewater, the prospect that there's less there than meets the eye is finally starting to sink in. And the credibility of Paula Jones is a positively painful topic for everyone. As a new bumper sticker says: "Bush Lost -- Get Over It." So now Congress is knuckling down to health care reform in its usual daft fashion. If we get coverage up to 91 percent or 93 percent of the people, is that good enough to claim "universal access"? How about a combination of the (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 769 words), May 18

May 1994 Story--31--The costs of Whitewater BILL COULD REIMBURSE LEGAL BILLS FOR CLINTON - House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday night on a new independent counsel bill that might pave the way for President Clinton to seek public payment of his legal fees - expected to be hefty - in the Whitewater case. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 62 words) May 18

May 1994 Story--33--Why do they like this guy? Don't they read what we print? CLINTON WELCOMED DESPITE DIP IN POLL -- PRESIDENT VISITS CLOSED MILITARY BASE, UCLA - Californians may be less approving of President Bill Clinton's job performance, but they cheered him by the thousands Friday, sought his help with economic ills and overlooked personal controversies. Evoking the Kennedy years, Clinton responded with a call to public service, avoidance of cynicism and reproach of a ``culture of critique.'' (KR-LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM, 497 words), May 21

May 1994 Story--35--Some would have argued in 1994 that the following stories were unrelated. GOP renews call for Whitewater action - WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers have stepped up pressure on Democrats to schedule congressional hearings into the Whitewater affair, as special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. wound down the initial phase of his investigation of President Clinton's role in the failed Arkansas land venture. (BALTIMORE SUN, 279 words), May 25

May 1994 Story--36--This story also seemed unrelated to Whitewater at the time. IN OTHER ACTION Cigarette-company lawyers for years ran a "special projects" division within the putatively independent Council for Tobacco Research, steering grants to favored scientists whose research might be used to defend the industry from legal attack, internal documents show; the council will be the focus of a hearing today before the House subcommittee on health and environment, headed by Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 220 words) May 26

May 1994 Story --37-- OF LIMITATIONS SHUNTS S&L PENALTIES - TEXAS S&L PRESIDENT WON'T HAVE TO PAY $7 MILLION AWARD; PERHAPS $1.6 BILLION COULD BE LOST BY TIME LIMIT by Susan Schmidt In the mid-1980s, John Henderson Jr. had his Texas thrifts buy two airplanes for more than $1 million each so he could fly between his offices and his ranch. The thrifts also bought a $30,000 Mercedes and a $75,000 BMW for his use -- and a van for his maid, according to court testimony. In April, a Tyler, Texas, jury said that Henderson was guilty of gross negligence and breach of his duties as the president and chairman of both Southland and Home savings and loan associations, and that (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL , 889 words.) May 26

May 1994 Story--39--Clearing the way for the FosterGATE and TreasuryGATE congressional hearings. TIMETABLE MAY CLEAR WAY FOR SUMMER CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS By Kenneth J. Cooper and Helen Dewar Special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. notified House leaders yesterday that he expects to complete the initial phase of his Whitewater investigation next month, a timetable that could clear the way for Congress to hold the first hearings this summer. (WASHINGTON POST, 724 words ), May 27

1ST PHASE OF PROBE OF LAND DEAL NEARS NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 393 words) May 27

May 1994 Story--40--What about Campobello? ---- Fulbright linked to Whitewater figure - WASHINGTON -- A land transaction nearly a decade ago that involved President Clinton's Whitewater business partner is drawing attention to another prominent Arkansan, former Sen. J. William Fulbright. (BALTIMORE SUN, 482 words), May 27

May 1994 Story--41--CommoditiesGATE RECORDS HINT CLINTON'S TRADES BROKE RULES - HAD INSUFFICIENT FUNDS, WHITE HOUSE AIDE SAYS Hillary Rodham Clinton's first day of trading in the cattle-futures market in 1978 violated trading rules and was done with insufficient funds in her brokerage account, records released by the White House indicated Thursday. The documents shed new light on the early days of trading in the account in which Clinton turned a $1,000 stake into a profit of nearly $100,000. (KR-LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM, 387 words), May 27

RECORDS SHOW HILLARY BROKE TRADING RULES NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR- ST PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 378 words), May 27

May 1994 Story--42--PaulaGATE TROOPER MAY BREAK SILENCE ON LAWSUIT BY PAULA JONESFERGUSON READIES REPLY IN ARKANSAS CASE By Howard Schneider If his actions are any clue, Arkansas State Trooper Danny Ferguson has been a man at war with himself for the past six months, first talking in detail about his years on Gov. Bill Clinton's security detail, then deciding he didn't want to comment. Then he talked again briefly -- in the form of a written affidavit denying that the president offered him a job to keep quiet. Since then, Ferguson has been silent. But before long he may have to start talking once more -- this time under oath and with the whole world listening. (WASHINGTON POST), May 29

May 1994 Story--43--Considering how the smear was spread, it's little wonder! CLINTON APPROVAL RATING FALLS - WASHINGTON -- President Clinton's job-approval rating dropped last month to its lowest point since August 1993, according to a poll released yesterday. The Harris Poll conducted from May 23 to 26 found that 42 percent of the respondents gave Clinton a positive rating, compared with 48 percent in early April. His negative rating was up to 56 percent, from 51 percent in April. (BOSTON GLOBE, 187 words), May 30

PROSECUTOR GETS WHITEWATER ALLEGATIONS - CRIMINAL REFERRAL FOCUSES ON DIVERTED S&L MONEY Federal investigators [L.Jean Lewis had been alleging this since 1993.] are alleging that Bill Clinton's Whitewater business partner used a web of loans to divert some $12,000 in savings and loan funds to Clinton's gubernatorial campaign a decade ago. The allegations are contained in a criminal referral - a recommendation by investigators for possible prosecution - written last year and now in the hands of the Whitewater special prosecutor. (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 533 words), May 30

INVESTIGATORS SAY LOANS WENT TO CAMPAIGN FUND NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR- ST PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 298 words), May 30

CLINTON CAMPAIGN FUNDS LINKED TO S&L LOAN - Federal investigators say Bill Clinton's Whitewater business partner used a web of loans to divert $12,000 in savings and loan funds to Clinton's gubernatorial campaign a decade ago. The allegations are contained in a criminal referral now in the hands of the Whitewater special prosecutor. (KR-SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 101 words) May 30

PROBE SAYS S&L FUNDS WERE DIVERTED TO CLINTON CAMPAIGN- A DOCUMENT NAMES JAMES B. MCDOUGAL AS A SUSPECT. IT IS NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. Federal investigators have alleged that President Clinton's Whitewater business partner used a web of loans to divert about $12,000 in savings and loan funds to Clinton's Arkansas gubernatorial campaign in 1985. The allegations are contained in a criminal referral - a recommendation by investigators for possible prosecution - written last year and now in the hands of Whitewater special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske Jr. (KR-PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 711 words), May 30

CLINTON '86 CAMPAIGN REPORT LACKS KEY DATA NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, 430 words), May 31

COMPLETENESS OF 1986 REPORT BY CLINTON CAMPAIGN QUESTIONED AT ISSUE IS A FUND-RAISING EVENT HELD AT AN S&L. FOUR CHECKS FOR $12,000 WEREN'T LISTED. NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 589 words), May 31

1986 CLINTON CAMPAIGN GIFTS NOT DISCLOSED NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR- ST PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 370 words), May 31

May/June 1994--Story--46--Two newspapers report on Clinton's European trip. If the president's abroad, heat must be on at home -- WASHINGTON -- It's a time-honored political axiom that when a president is in trouble or bogged down at home, it's wise to go abroad, where courtesy to a visiting leader is likely to replace criticism and may even produce adulation -- and a rise in the public opinion polls. (BALTIMORE SUN, 688 words), May 31

June 1994--Story--2--Reduction of the Reagan Deficit? DEFICIT OF DEBATE -- THERE'S A LOT IN THE NEWS LATELY, BUT PRECIOUS LITTLE ABOUT THE DEFICIT. THE STAKES ARE TOO HIGH TO IGNORE THIS BURDEN ON THE ECONOMY North Korea, China, Haiti and Rwanda. Whitewater, Rosty, health care and Paula Jones. The news of late has featured precious little coverage of the federal budget deficit. Indeed, this year's budget debate has been a calm affair compared to last year's noisy battle over tax increases and spending priorities. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 728 words). Jun 6

June 1994--Story-- 3 --Did the anonymous source also reveal that all of the accounts in all of the companies owned by James McDougal were "churned" ? Dishonest Reporting--Dishonest Headlines. Whitewater account was routinely overdrawn-- Inside the failing Arkansas S&L owned by the one-time business partner of President Clinton and his wife, Hillary, the Whitewater Development Co. checkbook was routinely overdrawn. Each time the shortfalls were covered afterward -- sometimes two weeks later -- by transfers from James McDougal's other companies. (BALTIMORE SUN, 558 words), Jun 9

June 1994 Story--4---SENATE DEMOCRATS, GOP PROPOSE DIVERGENT WHITEWATER PLANS By Helen Dewar Senate Democrats and Republicans yesterday proposed sharply conflicting plans for hearings on the Whitewater controversy, triggering a rancorous debate in which they accused each other of trying to stack the hearings to serve their own partisan interests. (WASHINGTON POST, 524 words ), Jun 9

June 1994 Story--5-- I didn't know only Republicans fought in World War Two. CLINTON IN EUROPE - AT HIS BEST, THE PRESIDENT AIMS TO APPLY THE SPIRIT OF D-DAY, THE UNITY OF PURPOSE, TO TODAY'S ISSUES. UNFORTUNATELY, HE IS TOO RARELY AT HIS BEST The White House insisted all along that the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of D-Day weren't about the president and his political fortunes. They were, officials stressed appropriately and respectfully, about the veterans, living and dead, who served in that great crusade. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 544 words). Jun 10

June 1994 Story-- 6--Will he be able to do something right? CLINTON CONFRONTS SERIES OF MAKE-OR-BREAK TESTS COMING MONTHS COULD SET TONE OF PRESIDENCY By Ruth Marcus President Clinton is facing what could be the critical months of his presidency. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,435 words ), Jun 12

June 1994--Story--7--In 1998, almost 50 million Americas were without health care insurance. DOLE RAISES STAKES OVER HEALTH CARE - URGES VOTERS TO REJECT CLINTON Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas said yesterday that he will oppose any health care reform that is financed by requiring employers to help pay for their workers' coverage. He threatened to turn the fall elections into a referendum on President Clinton's health plan. Speaking to a GOP audience in Boston, Dole reflected a growing Republican combativeness on the health issue. His comments came at the end of a week in which the national health debate entered a new phase of (BOSTON GLOBE, 929 words), Jun 12

Whitewater prosecutor grills Clintons -- President Clinton and his wife were interviewed under oath by Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske, the White House disclosed today. (BALTIMORE SUN, 647 words), Jun 13

WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR INTERVIEWS THE CLINTONS President Clinton and his wife were interviewed under oath by Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske, the White House disclosed today. The interviews, conducted Sunday, focused on events surrounding the death of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster and communications between the Treasury and White House staff dealing with the government investigation of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a failed Arkansas thrift. (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 213 words.) Jun 13

June 1994 Story--9-- And now an opportunity for the Washington Post to revisit Whitewater, FosterGATE, CommoditiesGATE, TreasuryGATE CLINTONS INTERVIEWED ABOUT WHITEWATER - FISKE NEARLY DONE WITH WASHINGTON PHASE OF PROBE, WHITE HOUSE SAYS By Ruth Marcus and Susan Schmidt The special counsel investigating Whitewater interviewed President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton under oath Sunday afternoon, the White House said yesterday. (WASHINGTON POST), Jun 14

CLINTONS QUIZZED UNDER OATH -- THEY ANSWER PROSECUTOR'S QUESTIONS ABOUT WHITEWATER DEALINGS AND POSSIBLE INTERFERENCE IN TREASURY PROBE President Clinton and his wife, Hillary, were put under oath by federal investigators and questioned in separate interviews about the Whitewater affair and the suicide last fall of deputy counsel Vincent Foster. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 415 words). Jun 14

June 1994 Story--11--Reagan as a sitting President and Bush as a sitting vice President were deposed on Iran-Contra; later, as President, Bush refused to be depose again on Iran-Contra. WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR QUESTIONS CLINTONS - SESSIONS AT WHITE HOUSE SET HISTORIC PRECEDENT In extraordinary sessions at the White House, President Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, provided sworn testimony Sunday to the special prosecutor about the death of a White House lawyer and administration discussions of the Whitewater affair, the White House said Monday. The back-to-back questioning of the Clintons represented the first time a sitting president has given a deposition about his official conduct. [No] It apparently was the first time a sitting first lady has been interviewed. [Yes] (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 412 words.) Jun 14

June 1994 Story--12--DEMOCRATS CONTROL WHITEWATER VOTE The Senate voted on straight party lines Tuesday for a Democratic resolution to begin narrowly focused Whitewater hearings by July 29, rejecting Republican demands for a broad inquiry. The straight party-line vote of 56-43 came after a fierce debate. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 78 words). Jun 15

June 1994 Story--13--- HOUSE BANKING COMMITTEE TO HOLD LIMITED WHITEWATER HEARINGS By Kenneth J. Cooper and Helen Dewar House leaders yesterday agreed that the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee will hold public hearings on limited aspects of the Whitewater controversy. (WASHINGTON POST, 718 words ), Jun 16

June 1994--Story-- 14 --Now we know where all that HMO,Health Care Industry and Insurance Industry money went. DOLE ON THE RUN By MARY McGRORY All winter long, Democrats kept warm by assuring themselves that Bob Dole, Republican leader of the Senate and potential presidential candidate, would have to be for health care reform in the end. "He could not go to the country as the man who killed health care," they said. (WASHINGTON POST, 737 words ), Jun 16

CANDIDATE DOLE GOES MILITANT ON HEALTH CARE NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 622 words), Jun 17

DEMOCRATS DIG IN ON UNIVERSAL CARE -- SENATORS SAID THERE WOULD BE NO BACKING OFF ON THE HEALTH BILL. A HOUSE PANEL MOVED AHEAD, Senate Democrats came down hard yesterday against talk of compromise on health-care reform, saying they would settle for nothing less than universal coverage. "There is no universal and there is no comprehensive coverage unless all Americans are assured that as of a certain date they are going to have coverage," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass.) said during a packed Capitol news conference. (KR-PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 837 words), Jun 17

June 1994--Story-- 16 --In 1998, almost 50 million Americas were without health care insurance. WHITE HOUSE READY TO DEAL ON HEALTH PLAN -- Despite continuing to insist publicly that they want Congress to pass their entire health plan, White House officials have begun to dicker over a possible compromise that would delay -- perhaps indefinitely -- requiring the nation's employers to contribute toward their workers' health coverage. Lawmakers emerging from private meetings with President Clinton last week and some administration officials said that Clinton is prepared to modify or even scrap substantial chunk (BOSTON GLOBE, 1,033 words), Jun 19

June 1994 --Story--17--Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Whitewater. CONGRESS AND WHITEWATER - EDITORIAL - NEW YORK Republican Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato's knack for uniting Democrats must make him the envy of the White House. For the better part of a week, Senate Democrats have joined forces to beat back partisan attempts by Sen. D'Amato and his GOP colleagues to get political mileage out of the Whitewater affair. The wrangling is over the terms of the Banking Committee's pending Whitewater probe. (WASHINGTON POST, 457 words ), Jun 19

June 1994--Story--18--Without Hale's testimony there was no way to connect Clinton to McDougal, Hale and their illegal activities, so it was absolutely necessary to reduce the charges and get the testimony. Republican justice. ARK. TRIAL MAY HURT WHITEWATER PROBE -- Here's a challenge for the Whitewater special counsel: Prosecute two Arkansans accused of conspiring to defraud the government without letting a key figure reveal from the witness stand what he knows about the politically sensitive probe. In a trial set to begin today, land mines are out there for special counsel Robert Fiske Jr. in the bank fraud conspiracy case of Charles Matthews and Eugene Fitzhugh. The main problem for the prosecution is David Hale, a former judge who was indicted with Matthews and Fitzhugh. (KR-LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM, 532 words), Jun 20

June 1994 --Story--19-- Speaking of Coverups, when are we going to get the Starr Whitewater report? DEMOCRATS DO THE CLINTONS NO FAVORS BY LIMITING HEARINGS ON WHITEWATER. THEY ONLY LEAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A COVER-UP -- When Ronald Reagan and George Bush were in the Oval office, the Democrats in the Congress went hammer-and-tongs after every hint of scandal or impropriety in their administrations. (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 430 words). Jun 20

June 1994 --Story--20--This is the first trial called Whitewater that had nothing to do with Whitewater. First Whitewater trial to begin today in Ark. -- LITTLE ROCK, Ark. One aspect of the Whitewater ` investigation will assume a more visible role as the prosecutor, Robert B. Fiske Jr., and his team of lawyers begin their first trial today. (BALTIMORE SUN, 343 words), Jun 20

June 1994--Story--21--Sounds like the impeachment hearings. Whitewater probe should drop lawyer's death, Gonzalez says -- Creating a potential problem for House leaders, the Banking Committee chairman says the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster should not be part of any Whitewater hearings. (BALTIMORE SUN, 334 words), Jun 21

June 1994--Story--23--It's been a "Long Hot" Four Years. DOLE WARNS DEMOCRATS ON WHITEWATER By Helen Dewar Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) warned yesterday that Democrats may face a "long hot summer" of partisan battles over major legislation unless they agree to broader hearings on President Clinton's involvement with the Whitewater affair. (WASHINGTON POST, 810 words ), Jun 22

June 1994--Story-- 24 --CLINTON SEEKS HELP PAYING LEGAL FEES Dogged by legal trouble, President Clinton has asked his staff to find a way to collect thousands of dollars from Americans willing to help pay his attorneys' fees. It would be the first legal defense fund established by a sitting president.<p> Under a proposal being drafted by lawyers inside and outside the White House, contributions would be disclosed to the public, capped at about $1,000 and accepted only from individuals, a senior White House official said Tuesday. The effort underscores pro (KR-AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 151 words). Jun 22

June 1994--Story-- 25 --INDEPENDENT COUNSEL LAW GAINS APPROVAL BY HOUSE MEASURE ON EXPIRED STATUTE IS SENT TO CLINTON By Kenneth J. Cooper The House yesterday passed and sent to President Clinton legislation to reinstate the post-Watergate law that authorized independent counsels to investigate alleged wrongdoing by top federal officials. (WASHINGTON POST, 506 words ), Jun 22

June 1994--Story--26--That was the hope, anyway. SPECIAL COUNSEL LAW - REINSTATEMENT WILL HELP WASHINGTON ACCOUNTABILITY The resurrection of the independent counsel law fills an important void and provides a valuable tool for assuring that holders of high office are held accountable. (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 435 words), Jun 23

June 1994--Story--27--EX-JUDGE HALE, CLINTON'S ACCUSER, HAS POINTED THE FINGER BEFORE By Howard Schneider When former Little Rock, Ark., municipal judge David Hale last fall accused President Clinton of having pressured him to make improper loans from his finance company, it wasn't the first time Hale tried to deflect his own problems by pointing fingers. (WASHINGTON POST, 1,176 words ), Jun 23

June 1994--Story--28--If this had been Clinton. . . . .Leach alters figures on trust income -- A Republican congressman who has been harshly critical of President Clinton's Whitewater dealings has amended his financial disclosure statement to clarify the amount of money he earned from a trust. (BALTIMORE SUN, 270 words), Jun 23

June 1994--Story-- 29 --It did. Hale agreed NOT TO TESTIFY about his deals with major Arkansas Republicans and to make allegations about Clinton. In exchange, he and his criminal associates were given a free ride. PLEA MAY SILENCE CLINTON WHITEWATER ACCUSER --- LITTLE ROCK -- The Whitewater prosecutor struck a tentative plea bargain agreement yesterday that could keep a lid on testimony by a man who says then-Gov. Bill Clinton pressured him into making a loan to a Clinton business partner. The agreement was reached four days into a trial peripherally related to the Whitewater investigation of President Clinton and his real estate dealings. It involves two men accused of conspiring to defraud the Small Business Administration. (BOSTON GLOBE, 317 words), Jun 24

June 1994--Story--30--Speaking of "Fixes". THE FISKE FIX' - ON THE WHITEWATER PROBE, LET THE COURT APPOINT A TRULY INDEPENDENT COUNSEL. ``I only picked up the phone,'' said the judge, not all that happy to be speaking to a columnist, ``because the secretary is out to lunch and my clerk is in labor.'' He is David Sentelle, former Charlotte lawyer and presiding judge of the Independent Counsel Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, a Reagan appointee. Along with Judge John Butzner Jr. (Kennedy-Johnson) and Joseph Sneed (Nixon), Sentelle will soon be faced with a momentous decision affecting the separation of powers and the Clinton (KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 628 words), Jun 24

June 1994--Story--31--You aint seen nothing, yet. GOP LAWMAKERS DENOUNCE DEMOCRAT'S ATTACK AS RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY' Partisan animosities and election-year politics flared in Congress Thursday as Republican senators joined conservative counterparts in the House in attacking Rep. Vic Fazio, D-Calif., for criticizing the rising influence of the religious right on the GOP. The speed and vehemence of the Republican response appeared to take the Democrats by surprise. But coming on the heels of a testy partisan debate in the Senate over Whitewater hearings, it also underscored the polarization gripping Congress a(KR-CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 359 words), Jun 24

June 1994--Story--32-- CLINTON DEFENSE FUND LIMIT MAY GO TO $1,000 - OTHER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS SEEK By Ruth Marcus President Clinton's advisers plan to recommend that he accept contributions of up to $1,000 to help defray his legal expenses, double the $500 limit that had been under consideration, sources familiar with the proposal said yesterday. (WASHINGTON POST,733 words ), Jun 24

WHITEWATER DOCUMENTS PROMISED by Susan Schmidt NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (KR- ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS , 424 words.) Jun 24

WHITE HOUSE WILL GIVE WHITEWATER DOCUMENTS TO SENATE COMMITTEE - THE BANKING COMMITTEE WILL GET THE DOCUMENTS NEXT WEEK. - BUT THEY WON'T BE MADE PUBLIC. by Susan Schmidt ( PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER , 424 words.) Jun 24

June 1994--Story--34--The Falwell Video "laden with conspiracy theories" accuses Clinton of Murder, Drug-Smuggling, and other criminal acts. Now why should Clinton resent that? Clinton lashes out at Falwell, Limbaugh on radio -- In what is becoming a pattern, President Clinton angrily attacked his critics yesterday, lashing out at evangelical Christian leaders, the press, Republicans and talk radio. Mr. Clinton, interviewed by radio aboard Air Force One on his way to St. Louis, singled out two of his tormentors by name. The first was the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who has been hawking a $43 video laden with conspiracy theories and highly personal attacks against Mr. Clinton. (BALTIMORE SUN, 998 words), Jun 25

June 1994--Story--35--How else is the Mainstream Media going to get Republicans elected? CLINTON BLASTS 'NEGATIVISM' -- ST. LOUIS -- Striking out at his conservative critics in particular and the media in general, President Clinton bitterly complained yesterday that unfair and negative reports about him are feeding a cynical mindset in America. Mentioning conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell by name, Clinton decried "a constant unremitting drumbeat of negativism." (BOSTON GLOBE, 674 words), Jun 25

June 1994--Story--36--Now they are more powerful than ever. RUSH AND JERRY - IT'S TIME TO TELL THE RIGHT'S HATE SQUAD TO KNOCK IT OFF - Bill Clinton's attack last week on (among others) rabble- rousing talk show host Rush Limbaugh and TV preacher/ huckster Jerry Falwell might, at first glance, seem disproportionate: Do we really need the president of the United States to point out that demagogues will be demagogues? Mr. Limbaugh, who routinely assails Mr. Clinton's policies and character on the air, responded to the president's broadside by calling himself "the truth detector." (KR-DETROIT FREE PRESS, 502 words), Jun 28

June 1994 Story --37-- CLINTON LAWYERS SEEK PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY IN SEX HARASSMENT SUIT by Susan Schmidt -- Paula Jones should be barred from proceeding with her lawsuit against President Clinton while he is in office, Clinton's lawyers argued Monday. In court motions filed in Little Rock, Ark., the president's lawyers said they will seek to have Jones' civil rights suit - which alleges sexual harassment by Clinton - dismissed while he is in office, with the understanding that it could be reinstated at the conclusion of his presidency. (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS , 317 words.) Jun 28

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) will call it the "forgotten fifty": Among the 50 biggest savings and loan busts in Texas, taxpayer losses exceed $11.7 billion -- or the combined 1992 earnings of 19 of the 30 highest rated companies on the Dow Jones industrial average. Yet the Resolution Trust Corp., which was created to help recoup taxpayer losses, will net only a nickel for every lost dollar.

Gill may be a glaring example, but it's hardly an isolated one in Texas. The RTC, according to Kerry's information, failed to issue subpoenas in any of the following cases: Security Federal Savings of Texarkana, with losses of nearly $500 million; Universal Savings of Houston, with losses of $250 million; and Continental S&L of Bellaire, with losses of $650 million.

June 1994--Story--40-- The Boston Globe on the Clinton Legal Defense Fund A CLINTON DEFENSE FUND IS SET - $1,000 CAP PUT ON DONATIONS; CRITICS RAISE ETHICS QUESTIONS -- President Clinton, in a politically embarrassing move that aides had hoped to avoid, yesterday authorized the establishment of a legal defense fund that will accept individual donations of up to $1,000 to help him fight a sexual harassment suit and possibly a Whitewater-related case. (BOSTON GLOBE, 943 words), Jun 29

June 1994--Story--41--The Washington Post on the Fund -- Lobbyists among those allowed to contribute. CLINTONS ESTABLISH FUND TO MEET LEGAL EXPENSES - LOBBYISTS AMONG THOSE ALLOWED TO CONTRIBUTE By Ruth Marcus President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday established an unprecedented defense fund to help them pay legal fees for the Whitewater investigation and the Paula Corbin Jones lawsuit that could run as high as $2 million annually. (WASHINGTON POST, 827 words ), Jun 29

June 1994 --Story--42--In case you missed it, yesterday. CLINTON LEGAL DEFENSE FUND WON'T BAR LOBBYISTS' GIFTS By Ruth Marcus President Clinton's newly established legal defense fund yesterday rejected a call by Common Cause to bar contributions from lobbyists and foreign agents in light of legislation passed by the Senate that would prohibit such donations. (WASHINGTON POST, 374 words ), Jun 30

FISKE: CLINTON AIDES SHOULDN'T BE CHARGED by Stephen Labaton- NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER , 875 words.) Jun 30

COUNSEL SAID TO OPPOSE WHITEWATER CHARGES by Stephen Labaton NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS , 514 words.) Jun 30

NO CHARGES EXPECTED IN AIDES' S&L INQUIRIES by Stephen Labaton NEARLY THE SAME TEXT (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS , 802 words.) Jun 30

ANNOUNCEMENT SET IN WHITEWATER CASE - INITIAL FINDINGS TO BE PRESENTED by Stephen Labaton - NEARLY THE SAME TEXT ( THE STATE , 660 words.) Jun 30

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