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Georgette Mosbacher, President Donald Trump’s pick for the new US ambassador to Poland, has vowed to voice America's support for "essential freedoms" in the country, according to reports. During a hearing in the US Senate on Tuesday, Mosbacher said she was “aware of recent concerns about respect for democratic institutions in Poland” and added that she intended to voice America’s strong support for “essential freedoms” if confirmed as ambassador. Mosbacher said, as quoted on the foreign.senate.gov website: “I am aware of recent concerns about respect for democratic institutions in Poland — freedom of speech, the independence of the judiciary, and...

Houston oilman Robert Adam Mosbacher, perhaps the Republican Party's greatest-ever fundraiser and a member of the cabinet of longtime friend President George H.W. Bush, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. He was 82. Mosbacher, founder of the company that bore his name, served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992, where he was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Although the formal position placed him toward the bottom of the cabinet hierarchy, no one doubted Mosbacher's influence with and access to the president, whom he had known since the early 1960s. He raised...

Ed Rollins gets an earful by the women after last night's debate. What's that about a woman scorned?

Normally, presidential candidates shudder at the prospect of their pasts being laid bare, especially any past paramours with whom they were bare. Paula Jones, anyone? Not so with Fred Thompson. The ex-Senator's numerous ex-girlfriends, which include country singer Lorrie Morgan and DC society maven Georgette Mosbacher, say they're not just going to vote for their former flame, they'll support him on his road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That is, once he announces, which is rumored to be imminent. Morgan told the Times of London, "I couldn't think of a bad word to say about Fred if somebody put a gun...

IN the battle for the women’s vote, Fred Thompson has a secret weapon against Hillary Clinton - the legions of former girlfriends who still adore him and who want him to be president. The Hollywood actor and former Tennessee senator racked up an impressive list of conquests during his swinging bachelor days in the 1990s, but he appears to have achieved the impossible and kept their friendship and respect. Lorrie Morgan, a country singer who dated Thompson and considered marrying him in the mid1990s, told The Sunday Times: “I couldn’t think of a bad word to say about Fred if...

June 25, 2007 issue - Fred Thompson has a gift for knowing just what to say to anyone, in any situation. In 1998, when Thompson was a Republican senator and a single man about town, New York socialite Georgette Mosbacher invited him to accompany her on an overseas trip. Thompson couldn't go, and summoned the full measure of his Tennessee charm in letting her down. "I am sitting here with a long face and broken heart as I contemplate sunsets on the Mediterranean, which I will not see," he wrote to Mosbacher on his official Senate stationery.

June 25, 2007 issue - Fred Thompson has a gift for knowing just what to say to anyone, in any situation. In 1998, when Thompson was a Republican senator and a single man about town, New York socialite Georgette Mosbacher invited him to accompany her on an overseas trip. Thompson couldn't go, and summoned the full measure of his Tennessee charm in letting her down. "I am sitting here with a long face and broken heart as I contemplate sunsets on the Mediterranean, which I will not see," he wrote to Mosbacher on his official Senate stationery. "We must remember...

Lauren Hutton and Georgette Mosbacher squared off in a verbal claw-fest Tuesday night at the Sony Club, significantly upping the entertainment value of a State of the Union-watching party hosted by Atlantic Monthly magazine. "Bush is responsible for a trillion-dollar deficit," declared the gap-toothed fashion icon, rising from her seat to respond to Mosbacher's lonely defense of President Bush amid a liberal-leaning crowd that included Walter and Betsy Cronkite, Pete Peterson, David Dinkins, Tina Brown and Harry Evans, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and Moby. "I guess you can't read, or something," Hutton jabbed. "Because I can - and I'm...

FORMER Mayor Rudy Giuliani will challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for U.S. Senate in 2006 if, as many suspect, he wants to be president one day. That's the dramatic prediction of one of New York's most senior elected officials, who knows both Giuliani and Clinton well. "Rudy's fundamental dilemma in terms of becoming president is that he holds positions that are unacceptable to his own Republican Party on things like abortion and gay rights and gun control," the senior official told The Post. "Now, if he runs for the Senate and defeats Hillary Clinton, given all the negatives she represents to...

New York Republicans close to Gov. George Pataki have approached Manhattan businesswoman Georgette Mosbacher, ex-wife of former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, as a possible candidate against Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer next year. The approach came to light when Mosbacher contacted friends for help in framing her response. While active in Republican fund-raising, Mosbacher has never been a candidate or held public office. With her net worth estimated at more than $250 million, she might be able to finance her own campaign. Mosbacher's last political activity was in 2000 when she endorsed Sen. John McCain for the Republican nomination. Her...