you know what? They already have that information! They can spend their millions forming a data mining operation, they'll get the same names. "Ooh look, George Clooney's name turned up!" You think?
R Warren Meddoff, Florida businessman, tells Senators at hearing on campaign financing that Harold M Ickes, then top political adviser in White House, asked him to arrange $1.5 million donation from another businessman, William R Morgan, to help Pres Clinton just days before 1996 Presidential election, and that Ickes called back several hours later to ask him to shred fax that described request;
October 1994 memorandum by former deputy White House chief of staff Harold M Ickes indicates Pres Clinton made fund-raising call to wealthy California businessman from White House that resulted in $50,000 contribution two weeks later; is strongest evidence yet that President tried to raise campaign money by telephone from White House
Democratic National Committee transferred at least $32 million to state Democratic parties in 1996 election as part of elaborate plan to spend more money than Federal election law appeared to allow on huge advertising campaign that indirectly helped re-elect Pres Clinton; plan was conceived and coordinated by Clinton-Gore campaign staff and Democratic Party officials as end-run around legal spending limits
Pres Clinton's former campaign adviser; Harold M Ickes, former White House deputy chief of staff, was deeply involved in directing DNC's fund-raising and expenditures
Kevin Kretz letter disputes February 19 Op-Ed article by Philip B Heymann on allegations surrounding role of Interior Sec Bruce Babbitt and former Deputy White House chief of staff Harold M Ickes in approval of Indian gambling casino
Harold M Ickes, former top White House aide who remains adviser to Pres Clinton, testifies before grand jury in Alexandria, Va, about Pentagon's improper disclosure of details from Linda Tripp's personnel file
Editorial says Atty Gen Janet Reno, by authorizing narrowly defined investigation of whether former deputy White House chief of staff Harold Ickes committed perjury in Senate testimony about 1996 election campaign
Kenneth W Starr's report to Congress reveals that Pres Clinton's Secret Service bodyguards repeatedly allowed Monica S Lewinsky into Oval Office after being told that she was delivering papers and that they were not surprised that she often stayed for an hour or more; Betty Currie, Clinton's secretary, and Harold M Ickes, a former aide, are also cited in report as having been in position to suspect what was going on between Clinton and Lewinsky
House panel probing teamsters union discloses internal Clinton Administration documents that shed fuller and harsher light on effort by Harold M Ickes, former deputy chief of staff, to resolve strike against Diamond Walnut Growers on union's behalf; documents surface at time when Justice Department probes whether he lied to Senate panel probing campaign finance abuses when he denies Adminstration played role in dispute; include Ickes Mar 1995 memo to then-Trade Repr Mickey Kantor saying Ickes had met with group of teamsters officials and wanted Kantor to intervene on strikers' behalf; Kantor, who phoned cooperative president William Cuff after meeting with Ickes
Editorial finds it no surprise that Atty Gen Janet Reno has decided against independent counsel to probe misconduct allegations against Harold Ickes, who ran Pres Clinton's 1996 campaign; says 'cover-up' is now complete, and will be 'shameful page' in Justice Department history
Hillary Rodham Clinton steps up her efforts to consider running for United States Senate from New York as her political adviser, Harold Ickes, contacts wide range of union leaders and campaign consultants;
she (Hillary) also recently entertained powerful New York Democrats and public figures at White House, including Dennis Rivera, labor leader; in making her calls, Mrs Clinton works from a list of 200 names provided by Harold M Ickes, former White House official and veteran of New York politics
US Atty Mary Jo White's office expands criminal probe into whether efforts were made to buy pardons; Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton says she played no role in any of pardons, expresses chagrin that her brother Hugh Rodham accepted large fee for lobbying
Clinton aides say William Cunningham 3d, Mrs Clinton's Senate campaign treasurer and law partner of Clinton adviser Harold Ickes, helped get last-minute pardons for James Manning and Robert Fain; Ickes says friend asked him to help get pardons for two, who were convicted of tax evasion in 1982, interview; says he referred friend, identified by others as television producer Harry Thomason, to Cunningham, did not discuss pardons with either Pres or Mrs Clinton and got no money
Access to Pres Bill Clinton or to White House counsel's office was common ingredient in final group of pardons granted by him; lawyers say that without entree, it was nearly impossible to argue merits of clemency applications; say assistance was given by wide array of people who topped 'Friends of Bill' list: Harry Thomason, television producer, Terry McAuliffe, Clinton fundraiser, Rev Jesse Jackson, and Harold M Ickes, former White House deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton; say applicants paid six-figure fees to middlemen such as Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, who worked on two clemency petitions, and Jack Quinn, former White House counsel who represented Marc Rich
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