We hear that some people wanting to see President Clinton infiltrated a group of tourists at the White House in a desperate attempt to sneak into the Oval Office. What will the President’s foreign-policy team think of next?
Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater press conference was like her husband’s: polished, and slippery. Mrs. Clinton did not explain how, in the 50-50 partnership that was Whitewater, Jim and Susan McDougal sustained most of the losses; why her chief of staff was among those who rifled Vince Foster’s office after his death; or exactly how her phenomenal commodities trading succeeded. Her most egregious maneuver: continuing to bash the Decade of Greed (“the excess of the 1980s”), apart from speculations in cattle futures. Her least-noted maneuver: asserting that Dan Lassiter—a bond trader whom she and the Rose Law Firm had pursued acting as outside counsel for the Feds in yet another S&L case (in addition to that of the famous Madison Guaranty)—was neither a “personal” nor a “social” friend. Dan Lassiter met Virginia Kelley, Bill Clinton’s mother, at the Hot Springs racetrack, where their boxes adjoined; he employed Roger Clinton, Bill’s half-brother; he loaned the Clintons his private plane. What kind of friend was he? A crooked friend, surely; he was convicted of drug smuggling in the Eighties. Could she be confusing him with other friends?
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