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                       MORE ON THE CLINTON YEARS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
February 11, 1994, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is 
recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the Minority Leader.
  Mr. DORNAN. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. Speaker, my colleagues who are watching on C-SPAN, and to that C-
SPAN audience that at this time of the day is probably at a peak of 1 
million to 1\1/2\ million people, I want to make something very clear 
at the outset, that it is not my desire in discussing the Clinton years 
to engage in any payback.
  I was not one of those who was hurt by Watergate and the collapse of 
the Nixon administration. I was not hurt personally, but I was 
certainly hurt in my heart. By that time I had been over to Vietnam 
eight times, seven as a journalist, the first time as an Air Force 
captain ferrying a rescue airplane. I was unable to get myself recalled 
to active duty, as vigorously as I tried.
  It is not payback time for me. But I am going to put it in some very 
simple, rough terms as I did to Mr. Richardson earlier during the 1-
minutes. I believe that Bill Clinton is an illegitimate President, and 
I think he is hurting my nine grandchildren and any other grandchildren 
that God gives me and my Sally. I think he is ripping the moral fiber 
of this country to shreds. On the national security front, I had some 
initial feeling of confidence because of the appointments of Jim 
Woolsey, a Rhodes scholar who actually went to class at Rhodes and got 
his Rhodes Master's Degree from Oxford, which Clinton never did--more 
about that in the coming weeks and months--because of the appointment 
of a great justice and former prosecutor, Louis Freeh, as head of the 
FBI, and because we did not get some disastrous appointment as the 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--he appointed John 
Shalikashvili--I thought well, maybe things might not be too bad on the 
national security side.
  But now I see people like Jane Hansen, Derek Shearer, Strobe Talbot, 
Sam Brown, Morton Halperin coming into the State Department and it 
scares the hell out of me. The White House thumbed its nose at all us 
in the Senate and the House, by putting Halperin in the National 
Security Council, where he does not have to be confirmed.
  I think the best way to prologue my remarks today is to ask for 
another resignation. Yesterday I said that Roger Altman should either 
retire, resign, or be fired, that Jane Hansen who is over at Treasury 
with him should either retire or be fired too, Patsy Thomason over at 
the White House--she doesn't have a security clearance anyway, nor does 
Dee Dee Myers, after 1 year and almost 3 months--should retire, resign, 
or be fired. With St. Patrick's Day yesterday, I felt a little queasy 
about calling for the resignation or firing of William Kennedy, III, 
the last of the big four. Vince Foster killed himself.
  Mrs. Clinton seems to be in trouble, at least speaking from her 
platform of moral authority, one of the Rose employees in the 
Government, and she is an appointed Government official at the highest 
level, without pay and was never elected to anything--ever. Vince 
Foster dead. Web Hubbell resigned in disgrace, saying that all of the 
60 lawyers at the distinguished Rose institute were vindictive and 
ripping him behind his back on the billing problem.

                              {time}  1200

  It is the day between St. Patrick's and St. Joseph's Day, so Bill 
Kennedy, I recommend you resign and get out of there with some dignity, 
although you will spend a lot of time in court. Bill Kennedy has the 
responsibility for security clearances in the whole White House 
compound.
  Nussbaum, had a more direct ear to the Clintons, even though he was 
not a former Rose firm employee like the other four. He knew Mrs. 
Clinton from the building across the street, from this Capitol, the 
Rayburn Building. They served together on the Watergate House 
Impeachment Committee. So he trumped Kennedy and took security 
clearances into his, Nussbaum's, office and sat on them. Kennedy was 
one of those panicking in the middle of the night of Vincent Foster's 
death, trying to open Vincent Foster's safe. He and Thommasson and a 
couple of the staffers of Mrs. Clinton were the ones that stripped the 
office of all the Madison-Whitewater files, at this point heaven knows 
what else.
  By the way, you will see all of these people gone.
  There is no big pressure on my part. They will all be gone with the 
concurrent responsibility of the Clinton administration having to fill 
all these slots, go through a confirmation process. The front page of 
yesterday's Washington Times say it all. It shows Dave Gergen, Anthony 
Lake, Thomas Mac McLarty and George Stephanopoulos, looking not 16, not 
15, but 13 years of age. It says, ``Time to clean house. Young top 
aids,'' Gergen must have liked that, ``seen as liability for the 
President. An anonymous Democrat, a former Democrat Party boss said, 
`It is hurting the President and it is hurting our party. Mr. Clinton's 
top staffers are both mishandling Whitewater-Madison and damaging the 
party.'''
  Now, having gotten the William Kennedy, III, matter out of the way, 
let me read in its entirety a column by Mona Charen, nationally 
syndicated columnist. I have gotten to meet Mona personally several 
times. I happen to think she is one of the best columnists in the 
country. It is titled, ``When the scandal monster strikes.'' There is a 
related cartoon showing little kitty cat, looks like a tom cat, and 
Clinton saying, ``I have got my pride,'' and then some cuss words, all 
of the asterisks and circles. Arkansas is on his neck. He is 
hitchhiking. Next to him is Socks with a cat head, and he is leaving 
town. This is from the Dallas Morning News.
  The subheadline is from Mona. It says, ``If a Republican had done 
that, the press would be echoing with words like `sleaze' and `abuse of 
power.''' Listen to the sage words of Mrs. Charen.
  ``When President Clinton averred that he had never known anyone with 
a stronger sense of right and wrong as Mrs. Clinton, it allowed Senator 
Al D'Amato, New York Republican, to get off the stinging rejoinder: 
`that's the problem.'
  ``Before anything is proved about what happened or did not happen 
with the Clintons' Whitewater deals, one thing is becoming clear. These 
people who came to Washington proclaiming the dawn of the new Democrat 
are not just old Democrats, taxing, spending, endorsing quotas, weak on 
defense,'' God knows I have spent 18 years here with those old Democrat 
types and they still dominate this institution, ``but these are 
practitioners par excellence of old politics, cash for influence, back 
scratching, sweetheart deals and womanizing.
  ``Upon examination, Mr. Clinton is beginning to resemble not his 
hero, Thomas Jefferson, whose memory was heavy-handedly invoked during 
Inauguration Week.''
  I remember Senator Al Gore walking in Monticello into one of the main 
drawing rooms and saying, ``Who are these people,'' pointing at 
Washington and Ben Franklin, two most easily-designated busts, Ben 
because of the long shoulder-length hair and the glasses. I remember 
the Monticello kickoff well that morning. I tried to avoid the rest of 
the day.
  Charen says, Mr. Clinton is not resembling Jefferson and not George 
Washington but George Washington Plunkitt, ``the Tammany Hall pol whose 
autobiography contained the memorable defense of `honest' graft.'' That 
is a book for our former colleague, Tony Coelho. I always wondered 
where the title came from, Honest Graft.

  The Plunkitt line was, ``I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.''
  ``Read,'' Mona says, ``the March 21 edition of National Review. Rick 
Brookhiser provides a Whitewater primer that sketches the outlines of 
the Clintons' cozy business-government-friendship ties. To the constant 
refrain from the White House that there have been no allegations of 
wrongdoing by the President there can only be one response: How many 
allegations do you want?''
  I will repeat that, because I have a desk loaded with them. How many 
allegations of wrongdoing, including coverup and criminality, do you 
want, my colleagues and fellow Americans?
  How about David Hale? He goes to court next week. He has accused 
Clinton of leaning on him to approve a $300,000 SBA loan to Susan 
McDougal. The SBA program was supposed to assist minority and 
disadvantaged businesses. Instead, it found its way to a wealthy friend 
of the Governor.
  This Susan McDougal has returned to the scene of the crime and is in 
Little Rock. She is under indictment in my county in California for 
scamming tens of thousands of dollars from one of the Nation's great 
Philharmonic conductors, Zubin Mehta. She is my choice for the first 
one to crack and become Whitewater's John Dean. At her press conference 
in Little Rock, she issued a short statement and said, ``No questions. 
I am out of here.''
  Her lawyer, I will read his name later, maybe next week, when asked, 
``Isn't she going to take the opportunity to clear the Clintons, as her 
husband tried to do, sort of, at least regarding Mr. Clinton yesterday 
on the Brinkley this week show?''
  And the lawyer said, ``No comment.'' And split.
  Keep your eye on Susan McDougal. ``How many allegations do you 
want,'' Mona says. And I echo it.
  ``There is the allegation that then-Governor Clinton asked his friend 
and business partner James McDougal to help out the family finances by 
hiring Hillary Rodham Clinton at $2,000 a month. It is not disputed 
that HRC,'' her royal Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, ``received $2,000 a month 
retainer to represent McDougal's savings and loan before the Arkansas 
Securities Department, the Commissioner of which, one Beverly Bassett-
Schaffer''--learned this morning her brother was a huge contributor to 
Governor Clinton--``had been appointed by Bill Clinton.'' She may be 
one that cracks, Beverly Bassett-Schaffer.
  ``Since Madison was taking on water in 1985, Mrs. Clinton conceived a 
plan to save it. She petitioned the securities department to permit 
Madison Guaranty to sell preferred stock. In a letter addressed to 
`Dear Hillary,' Mrs. Bassett-Schaffer, what do you know, approved. The 
``what do you know'' is Mona's.
  ``Friends, if a Republican had done that the press would be screaming 
words like `sleaze,' `conflict of interest,' `greed,' `abuse of 
power.'''
  By the way, for those of you out there that are, as Bill Clinton 
would say, ``Feeling pain, feeling paid,'' well, I feel your pain. I 
repeat again, I watched the Republican White House turn into shambles 
over a stinking third-rate attempt, as I said last night, to steal the 
play book of the McGovern campaign. It was the most idiotic political 
thing I have ever seen in my life. Do Democrats learn from that?

                              {time}  1210

  Back to Mrs. Charen.
  She says, ``This is why the S&L screw-up is costing taxpayers so many 
billions of dollars.'' Precisely because of what happened in Little 
Rock the Congress was forced to vote billions to the Resolution Trust 
Corporation, where Altman is within hours of resigning as its acting 
head.
  ``James Carville,'' of Mary Matalin fame, ``former campaign manager 
for the Clinton campaign, quoted Mrs. Clinton as saying, `We were never 
about money.''' Well, wrong, Jim. All the columns from liberals that 
are starting to see the light here are saying maybe, just maybe, 
Clinton himself was not about money, but about power and sex, but Mrs. 
Clinton surely was about money.
  One of the reasons I am not focusing much at all on Mrs. Clinton in 
any of my remarks, nor did I on this House floor in September and 
October of 1992, is because I feel her pain. How would you, any woman 
in this country, like to live with what Pat Buchanan called a serial 
adulterer?
  One of my daughters says ``serial'' is too rough a word; use 
``pathological,'' use ``repeated,'' use ``constant,'' but I see they 
now call rapists, serial rapists, and if somebody does something 
compulsively, pathologically, over and over and over and over again, 
then they are serial. Somebody tried to hand me, the other day, a list 
of 26 women, and I rebuffed it. I don't want to see that. I have six in 
my head who have all come public, and that is enough for this 
Congressman to make the charge stick.
  What makes it all so hypocritical is that this President goes to 
grade schools and to junior highs to lecture young people that sex is 
not a sport. After hearing that I turned on Jay Leno and he was saying, 
``If it were a sport, Bill Clinton would be getting a gold medal.'' No, 
not a gold medal.
  Back to Mona Charen. She says Mrs. Clinton says, ``We were never 
about money,'' the Carville quote. ``So they say,'' Mona writes, ``but 
check the books. Even the evidence available now suggests otherwise. 
The Clintons spent the 1980's buying and selling and engaging in 
transactions whose complexity thwarts understanding, even today, not 
the stuff of financial naifs.''
  ``But even if their claim to have lost money on the deal turns out to 
be true,'' and imagine the Clintons feeding themselves to Rush 
Limbaugh, when Mrs. Clinton, and I say offensively, surrounded by 
military people in uniform, who were within arm's reach of her, 
surrounded by military people, while he is surrounding himself again 
with military people at Fort Drum, she says, ``Heaven knows, what would 
you be saying if we made money? I am glad we lost money.''
  Russ Limbaugh is grinning ear-to-ear and saying, ``Imagine people 
telling you, bragging they are glad they lost money, and they want one-
seventh of our national economy to devise a socialized medical health 
plan.'' Unbelievable.
  Back to Charon: ``When Republicans lose money, they are accused of 
excessive greed,'' reaching and failing. When Democrats lose money, 
it's evidence of their moral superiority. Chew on this, Mona says, 
``there is an allegation that, as Governor, Bill Clinton leaned on 
David Hale, then running an arm of the Small Business Administration, 
to `help Jim and me out.' The Clintons deny this, but it is a fact that 
the SBA, tasked with helping minority enterpreneurs, did make a 
$300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, former wife of James McDougal and 
partner,'' one of four, with the Clintons, ``in Whitewater Development 
Corp., and $150,000 of that sum was invested in Whitewater.''
  There are the records, it was invested in Whitewater, when within 
hours the next day, this is one of five books I have back in the 
cloakroom that contain many of the Whitewater documents. It is so big 
it reminds me of when President Reagan stood up there at the second 
lectern and dropped that 14-pound book of the budget one year? Well, 
you should see the size of the books back here, of some records made 
available by interested folks doing a lot of digging. Isn't it amazing 
how people can get into our bank records these days. Whatever happened 
to privacy?
  What my colleague, Jim Leach, as a Republican, and his staffers on 
the Committee on Banking are finding out, I do not know, but God knows 
what Fiske with Federal subpoena power, hundreds of FBI accountants and 
agents is going to find out down there at Little Rock, and maybe an S&L 
in Illinois. Remember the old adage, you can indict a ham sandwich? 
Bill Clinton is as big a ham sandwich as you'll even see.
  Mrs. Clinton defended the Lasater case. I may not get to that today, 
but if somebody said to me, ``What word smashes you in the face more 
than any other word in all the research you have done, what screams out 
to be investigated,'' the word is Lasater. Wasn't that a good movie 
here recently, Lassiter? Yes, Tom Selleck, my pal, a good, solid 
conservative Republican; Lassiter, Lassiter.

  Get this line. I have a habit of red underlining important things. It 
goes way back to school in the Air Force. Sometimes I will underline a 
whole red article and my wife, Sally, said, ``Why don't you just dip it 
in ink?''
  I underlined a line last year and passed the article to my wife and 
she said, ``You underlined something here but you didn't even tell me 
about this.'' I said, ``What? I missed it.'' It did not even sink in. 
Here is the line: ``Dan Lasater paid off Roger Clinton's $8,000 drug 
debt.'' This is while they were both indicted for cocaine. Roger had 
already been in jail. He was on his way, he was an unindicted co-
cospirator in a cocaine trial where Lasater, Bill's friend, went to 
jail.
  Where did we last hear ``unindicted co-conspirator''? I don't know, 
could it have been Watergate? Here is Lasater, paying off the current 
President's brother's drug debt back then, $8,000.
  The point is, my wife says to me: ``To whom did they pay the drug 
debt? Was that to the FBI for their investigative hours wasted? Was it 
to the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency? Was it to court costs?''
  ``No,'' my wife says, ``I think what they could mean here is to the 
drug dealers.'' Anyway, it is a good question.
  Wait until the Members see the airplane deals that I discuss next 
week, at Mena Airfield in Arkansas, infamous, both for gun running to 
bad guys, good guys, and much drug running.
  Dan Lasater, remember that name. Guess who handled all of Lasater's 
financial affairs while he was in the slammer awaiting his Bill Clinton 
pardon for cocaine abuse? A big race track buff, this is the guy that 
met Virginia Kelly, Clinton's mother, at the race track, got her a box, 
became friends, introduced her to the then young Governor. Guess who 
ran all of Lasater's affairs for 2 years while he is in the slammer? 
Patsy Thomason, the person rummaging around the office of Vince Foster 
while he is undergoing an autopsy. That is why I have called for her 
firing or resignation.
  Back to Mona, ``If it is true that Vince Foster was working on 
Whitewater matters before his death, then the Clintons and he were in 
violation of the law that forbids Government employees from working on 
personal matters for their bosses. Remember the indictment of Senator 
Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas?
  ``There is a great bitterness among Democrats that the Clintons are 
being subjected to any scrutiny at all. They lament for the Nation, but 
their cries ring hollow,'' as Republican cries rang hollow in 1973 and 
1974. ``They created this monster, the scandal machine, deploying it 
first against Richard Nixon, and then against Ronald Reagan,'' and then 
George Bush, and then trying to destroy Robert Bork, and then coming 
within a hair of destroying Clarence Thomas, and pardon the inadvertent 
pun; Ed Meese; Richard Allen, over a watch as a gift in a safe that he 
never even saw, touched, wore, touched it when he put it in the safe 
and forgot about a $300 watch, and it destroyed this brilliant man, 
Dick Allen, for serving Reagan, although he still continues to serve 
his country in the private sector.
  There was Richard Allen, Carol Ianonne, Ray Donovan, who said ``where 
do I go to get my reputation back?'' Theodore Olsen, Elliott Abrams, 
Caspar Weinberger, and dozens more.
  ``The Democrats created this monster, and now the monster has turned 
on its master.''
  This is why it is so galling to see my Democrat colleagues take to 
the well to speak against congressional hearings. We all know, and I 
mean know, that if any Republican President had done anything near what 
this one has done, there would be a congressional hearing before you 
could say ``obstruction of justice.'' What hypocrites.
  Now a word about the Rose law firm.

                              {time}  1220

  Each State in our Union is allowed to have two big, beautiful statues 
in this wonderful Capitol Building. I think there are now 98.
  Only two States have submitted one statue. I think one of them might 
be Hawaii. Their first statue is the great priest of the lepers, Father 
Damien, who contracted leprosy himself, and who is going to be 
beatified as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church this summer in Rome, 
raised to sainthood by Pope John Paul. So that shows you how important 
this is.
  By the way, downstairs in Statuary Hall there are 9 or 10 ministers 
and priests and nuns, including from my own State of California, who 
chose Junipero Serra, who has already been raised to blessed and will 
probably be a saint before the decade is out. The other one from 
California is the great Reverend Thomas King, a Protestant minister in 
California who spoke out loudly and righteously against slavery.
  Let us go to Arkansas. They have two. The first one down in the Hall 
of Statues is James T. Clarke. He died in 1916 as a sitting U.S. 
Senator. He was a former Governor of Arkansas, a great lawyer, State 
attorney, distinguished-looking gentleman, James P. Clarke.
  Now the statue that sits out that door in Statuary Hall between 
Jefferson Davis, who is one of the two statues submitted by 
Mississippi, which honors his service pre-Civil War as an admiral. One 
the left of the statue I am about to mention is Robert Fulton, the 
great designer of the steam engine into the steamboat.
  In between is a statue that stunned me the other day, it simply says, 
and it is a 7-foot 6-inch statute of a towering thin-as-a-rail, 
handsome man, looks like Hal Holbrook in the Tom Cruise movie, ``The 
Firm,'' and it said only, ``Rose, Arkansas.''
  The press has not written about this until this very week, often I 
mentioned it on the floor. Listen to this, and you will understand why 
those 60 lawyers at the Rose firm are insulted and angered by the 
degradation of the name of their firm by all of the shenanigans by the 
famous four in the White House, first, Hillary Clinton, then the now-
deceased Vincent Foster, Webb Hubbell, and William Kennedy.
  Uriah M. Rose, 1834 to 1913, so he lived to be 79 years of age, was a 
lawyer of international reputation. He founded the first law firm west 
of the Mississippi in Little Rock. He was also chancellor of the State, 
charter member of the American Bar Association, and its president in 
1901. Author of the Arkansas Constitution and the Digest of Arkansas 
Reports, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt, President in 1907, as one of 
the delegates to the Peace Conference of the Hague with the rank of 
U.S. Ambassador. Governor, Ambassador, president of the bar, 
distinguished lawyer. And you wonder why the 60 current lawyers of that 
firm are furious? And when Web Hubbell called them vindictive down 
there in Little Rock, the lawyers of his former firm, I knew the man 
was doomed, because the billing story was certainly going to grow to be 
the undoing of Web Hubbell. Overbilling clients is poison for a law 
firm.
  I think it is important that people should not generalize about Park 
Police, not generalize about the Rose law firm, and on my side of the 
aisle not generalize about all Democrats, not generalize about the 
Congress and understand so try and understand, try and be openminded 
and listen when I say Clinton is an illegitimate President.
  Now let me make this theme: If the troopers in Arkansas, 10 of them, 
5 of them, the 4 that signed an affidavit and went on tape with the 
L.A. Times, or even only the two that had the guts to see through the 
media flashback firestorm, had gone public in February 1992 during the 
primary process, Bill Clinton would not now be the President of the 
United States.
  If Jennifer Flowers had not frosted her hair and spiked it, had not 
sold the story to a tabloid, the Star, and had a big press conference 
in New York, the press could not have been able to ignore her story. If 
she had released all 109 minutes of her recorded conversations with 
Clinton in the fall of 1991 instead of just releasing 8 minutes Clinton 
would not be president. By the way, those tapes were authenticated by 
none other than Clinton himself in his call to Mario Cuomo, sitting 
Governor of New York, to apologize for saying that Cuomo acted like a 
Mafioso on those recordings. I have heard both the recordings, and as I 
said yesterday, I put the transcript in the Record September 23, 1992. 
At the time I was panicking at the prospect that this flawed person, 
flawed in character, was going to be President of the United States.
  If Paula Corbin, Now Paula Corbin Jones, had come forward, with her 
sexual harassment charges, against Clinton during the primaries, 
Clinton would not be President. Jones story is far more compelling and 
detailed than Anita Hill's ever was. There are two friends of Jones who 
have signed affidavits backing up Jones' claim. Jones says Clinton not 
only propositioned her but exposed himself to her as well. You know 
what the tragedy is? It is easy to believe it happened.
  If Sally Purdue, Ms. Arkansas from my time in the 1950's, 8 years 
older than Clinton, had come forward at a press conference in Little 
Rock instead of a dumb talk show like Sally Jesse Raphael's, Clinton 
would not now be President.
  If the Whitewater thing had been taken seriously when it was first 
raised, Clinton would not be President. You know, many people forgot 
that this issue was first raised by Paul Tsongas during the run-up to 
the New Hampshire primary. Recently I was picking up papers around my 
house, and throwing them in the fire, stuffing them under the logs. All 
of a sudden I see some red underlining which catches my eye. It is an 
article saying the Clintons insist there is no impropriety in the 14-
year-old real estate transaction. I say wait a minute, that has to go 
in my Whitewater file here. And then I looked at the date, March 9, 
1992, the day before Super Tuesday. I raced to see the reporter, 
Kathleen Decker.
  The article says Clinton and his wife insisted they never made a 
penny in the deal in Arkansas. We will know the truth on that when 
Fiske is through with all of this. But even if it is true, so what? It 
is the intent of their actions that is at issue. Would we release 
attempted bank robbers because the vaults were empty?
  I read on. What is this referring to? The New York Times story the 
day before, on March 8, 1992. I have that New York Times story and 
others in the L.A. Times and Washington Post. This Whitewater issue 
came up on the radar in March 1992, and the liberal-dominant media 
culture killed it? Look. Why did they dump on this, because in the 
debate leading up to Super Tuesday I believe it was maybe early in New 
York, Clinton turns to Jerry Brown, 8-year former Governor of 
California when Brown brings up the Whitewater mess in a very 
respectful way, I might add about my friend, Jerry, and Clinton very 
cleverly turns to him and says, ``You're not worthy to sit on the same 
stage with my wife.'' Bingo. The liberal media caves in. Let's not 
touch it either or we will be accused of attacking this woman who is 
going to be a liberal heroine who will do great things. She is 
eventually appointed to the most important Government Commission of 511 
people, not one of them even a doctor or a nurse, and we do not dare 
attack her. And she pretty much got a free ride the rest of the 
campaign.

  Here is how I am going to structure this over the next few months: 
First, it's the coverup, stupid takeoff on James Carville's line. What 
is Whitewater, the coverup, who is David Hale, Madison S&L, and the 
still distinguished Rose law firm, in spite of some alumni, what 
happened in Vince Foster's office after this tragic suicide of a tall, 
handsome, intelligent, Catholic father of three, beautiful wife, what a 
tragedy; a body, just like Chappaquiddick. We have a body.
  And then I am going to put in Tom Foley quotes, our distinguished 
Speaker, about the October Surprise as well as those Al Gore quotes on 
the same subject. They are revealing. And as I told Bill Richardson, 
giving my friend from New Mexico a heads-up, I am researching 
everything the whip, David Bonior, said, and everything Mr. Richardson 
said, and what everybody else said about the October Surprise. When 
they try to say this is just Republican politics trying to tear down a 
Presidency--I will be ready. I would sit here some days at the 
beginning of the day, as you may recall, Mr. Speaker, one or two of us 
trying to defend George Bush, and there would be 40, 2 rows of theme 
team, to use Mr. Bonior's lines about our group over here, theme team, 
40 people lined up to gut George Bush, questioning his integrity, 
questioning everything about his Presidency, ripping him and pulling 
him down so the little 1-minute spots could be picked up, or bites out 
of it, on the evening news.
  We all admire Cokie Roberts. She can be tough on all of us. Not many 
people know that her husband is Steve Roberts, one of the top political 
reporters at U.S. News & World Report.

  Listen to this before my friends on the other side of the aisle try 
to get in my face. I mentioned the title last night, ``Who is cheering? 
Where is the cheering press?'' he says. I repeat, I saw the cheering 
crowds outside, young people cheering the institution of the 
Presidency.
  Here is a big photograph of a very glum-faced Bill Clinton, and 
listen to what Cokie Roberts' husband, Steve Roberts, writes: ``George 
Bush was recently asked what he missed least about Washington.'' George 
Bush, recently asked what he missed least about Washington, ``Dealing 
with the press,'' he snapped.
  By the way, reporters can have a lot of fun with an adjective and a 
verb. They hate to say, ``He said.'' It is so bland. So that is where 
he put in a lot of loaded verbs. ``He snapped.''
  I have never seen George Bush snap in my life. Maybe he responded 
quickly or sadly or mused philosophically, but George Bush said, 
``Dealing with the press.'' Whenever he said that to me, it was with a 
big sigh. I remember he said to me in the Oval Office in July, ``Bob, 
have you ever seen anything like the press now? I have never seen 
anything like this in my whole career, in my whole life, not at the 
U.N., not as head of the party, during Watergate. I have never seen 
anything like this. It is like they take this race personally, and they 
are trying to fire me.'' Keep that in mind. That was directly to me.
  It says the answer reflects an article of faith among Republicans 
that a left-leaning, pro-Democratic press corps cost Bush the 1992 
election by leading cheers for Bill Clinton.
  Well, I will tell you something, Steve; let Sally and I and you and 
Cokie go out to dinner, and I will document for hours why it is an 
article of faith for this Republican that a left-leaning, pro-abortion, 
dismiss-pot-smoking, dismiss-adultery, press was shilling for Clinton 
and covering his you-know-what. It almost made me think they wanted to 
scratch out a couple of Moses' Ten Commandments.''
  Look at him looking down, the only one of these 23 great lawmakers 
that gets a full-face shot, his eyes focused right on your chair, Mr. 
Speaker. I know a lot of liberal Democrats want to scratch out one 
particular commandment, particularly in regard to Bill Clinton, ``Thou 
shalt not commit adultery.'' So I will give you an article of faith.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Filner). If the gentleman would suspend, 
the Chair must caution the gentleman against personally offensive 
references to the President.
  The gentleman may continue.
  Mr. DORNAN. That is going to be very difficult. But I will try and 
skirt that on this issue of adultery, Mr. President, because I have 
got--I mean, Mr. Speaker. I have got a----
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The rules of the House are very clear.
  Mr. DORNAN. They what?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The rules of the House are very clear.
  Mr. DORNAN. OK, I will tell you what I am going to do, I am going to 
sit down with the Parliamentarians, because when I see a pathology of 
lying, serial adultery, draft dodging for three times and lying about 
it, what are we going to do? How do we describe it without violating 
House rules? I will sit down with you, Bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would simply caution the gentleman 
against the application of pejorative labels to the President.
  Mr. DORNAN. I did not realize that I had tied him that closely to 
Mosaic law. I will try not to be pejorative. It is not going to be 
easy. It is not going to be easy. We have an illegitimate President 
here. But I will try.
  Now, going back to Steve Roberts from U.S. News & World Report, the 
cheers have clearly faded. If there ever was a pro-Clinton cast of 
press coverage, it has been washed away by Whitewater.
  Washington journalists have only two enduring biases against 
entrenched power and in favor of a good yarn.
  Wrong, Steve Roberts, the press also has entrenched biases in favor 
of abortion and sodomy. These are articles of faith for the dominant 
media culture. I have a quote that I will read later from a journalist 
named Ethan something up in Boston who says anybody who is pro-life 
today is an uncivilized person in this modern society.
  But I will go with your two enduring biases, against entrenched 
power, in other words, circle the U-boats, the wolfpack, tear down 
anybody who is in the White House, even if he is one of you own, and in 
favor of a good yarn. Both prejudices are now hurting Clinton.
  When Whitewater first surfaced during the 1992 campaign, if was 
dismissed by the press as too complicated. I want to pause right there, 
Mr. Speaker, because Mona Charen, whom I greatly admire, also said it 
was complicated.
  I want to tell my fellow Americans, all my colleagues, and you, Mr. 
Speaker, it is not too complicated. This is not celestial navigation in 
the cockpit of an F-100 at night trying to shoot the stars to train 
yourself to go to Moscow alone and drop an atom bomb. That is what I 
did. That is complicated. This is not rocket science. It is not brain 
surgery. It is long; it is long. That is different from logarithms. It 
is not complicated. It is intricate, which is different. It is long.
  The American people must and will, I predict, take the time to sort 
through the players and the facts and try to follow during the secret 
period of Fiske and all of these engineered subpoenas blocking all of 
this from us, trying to take it at least through the 1994 election, and 
as the Wall Street Journal says, and I am hoping they are paranoid, 
through the 1996 election.
  I heard that Special Prosecutor Fiske subpoenaed George 
Stephanopoulos last night. That is No. 11. I cannot believe all of 
these subpoenas in the White House and Treasury. The problem is, there 
should be congressional subpoenas as well.
  Back to Steve Roberts. He continues that when the story was revived 
last fall, Team Clinton thought the same thing would happen, that 
because it was too complicated, the press would give up. But there is a 
difference between to way the press covers a campaign and an 
administration. The White House is finding that out.

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  ``Even what seems small in the political context takes on new size 
and meaning when viewed through the magnifying lens of the White 
House.'' I predicted that on this floor in September and October 1992. 
I said this will all come out if he makes it to the White House.
  ``Moreover, a campaign ends in a few months, an administration lasts 
years 4 years, giving editors more time and incentive to invest 
resources in investigative projects. Almost 20 years after Richard 
Nixon's resignation, the Washington press corps is still inspired by 
Watergate. It was the good war of the journalistic fraternity. A whole 
generation now filling the major beats and editor slots in many major 
news organizations, who are dreaming of being the next Woodward and 
Bernstein, of the day when Dustin Hoffman or Bob Redford or now Tom 
Cruise or Denzel Washington or Holly Hunter would play them in the 
movies. One of the biggest mistakes the White House made in handling 
Whitewater was to set those dreams racing in the press as Clinton 
advisor,'' now with his subpoena, ``George Stephanopolus admits the 
administration's damage control operation did more damage than 
control.'' How is David Gergen earning his huge salary over there?
  ``Suddenly the story was no longer about boring bank records and 
intricate land deals in a small rural State,'' a beautiful State. ``The 
old words, like the lyrics from a half-forgotten battle hymn, were 
echoing through the newsrooms of the capital: subpoena, shredding 
machines, grand jury, burn bags, and, most resonant of all, coverup, 
coverup, coverup. The Republicans are doing their part playing on the 
guilt feelings of the press corps.'' I have been doing that for 30 
years, folks, it is not a change with me. ``They have gotten too cozy 
with the Clintons by demanding equal-opportunity cynicism,'' that is 
what we are supposed to be demanding, ``and many journalists are 
willing if unindicted coconspirators of the Republicans,'' what was 
that, Steve? ``We are thrilled to see them setting up their satellite 
trucks outside the Federal courthouse where White House aides were 
summoned to appear. With Nancy Kerrigan at Disney World and Tonya 
Harding in the background fading,'' she was on the headlines last night 
again pleading guilty, copping a plea, ``something had to fill the news 
vacuum. Is that the way news and history run in America now, filling 
vacuums only? Last December Bill Clinton was already starting to sour 
on the press, complaining to Rolling Stone magazine that he had not 
gotten one damn bit of credit from the knee-jerk liberal press, George 
Bush or any ex-President would certainly nod in sympathy.''
  Now, here is what I have lined up before me for a chronology next 
week. Here is the toady liberal press structuring a personal 60 Minutes 
show--it was only 13 minutes long--following the Super Bowl in 1992, 
January 26, 1992. I ask permission to put that in the Record.

  Following that is the unbelievable, disgusting Nightline show in 
February, on Lincoln's Birthday, when at the request of Rick Kaplan of 
the ABC, a charter FOB, friend of Bill, who meets with him at the 
renaissance group. Koppel is conned by his former 10-year producer Rick 
Kaplan into giving Clinton his own Nightline. They actually went into 
overtime. And that is when Mandy Grunwald gave them this line: ``All I 
have been asked about by the press are women I didn't sleep with and a 
draft I didn't dodge.''
  Now, I do not know how to handle this and follow House rules. Suffice 
to say that there are two untruths in that statement about the draft 
and Gennifer Flowers. That line was written by Mandy Grunwald, the 
daughter of a 25-year senior editor of Time. She could not keep her 
mouth shut. Pride of authorship caused her to claim that line 2 weeks 
later on the Style section front page in the Washington Post. I am 
going to put that in.
  Then I am going to put in from March this column that I found in the 
New York Times, and then those of you who want the Congressional Record 
can go to the library in a few days. Please do not call me, call your 
own Congressman for the Congressional Record of March 18, 1994. And we 
will go through some of these things together, like in the Ted Koppel 
Nightline show--and I have been meaning to call Ted about this--Clinton 
calls himself a 23-year-old young man. Remember how that set me off in 
September 1992, on the floor the next day. Young man? When I was 23, I 
was married 2 years, had a second child born, a third was on the way, 
and I was flying F-100 Super Sabres at George Air Force Base, ready to 
go and defend Hungarians, South Koreans, Vietnamese, anybody else who 
called. I was not a boy, I was a man.
  Later on, Clinton slips and calls himself a boy again, and then after 
a quick pause, says, ``a young man.'' Twenty-three? He never went to 
class at Rhodes, he is not a Rhodes Scholar. He was a Rhodes 
scholarship nominee. He never went to class the second year. All he did 
was conduct teach-ins at London University, arranged demonstrations 
that he coordinated here with Strobe Talbott. Strobe Talbott's brother-
in-law, Derek Shearer, married Strobe's sister, who was a Rhodes 
Scholar over there. He has been nominated for Ambassador to Finland. 
That is jammed up in the House now because raping of the truth. I am 
not going to comment on that advise and consent role of the U.S. 
Senate.
  I held these up yesterday, Mr. Speaker. It demands, begs being said 
again: Lee Hamilton, one of the most distinguished Members, calls for 
hearings on Whitewater, and Rostenkowski calls for Whitewater hearings.
  I am going to put in some of the distinguished Speaker's own remarks, 
even though he did not believe in the October Surprise and that George 
Bush was zipping across the Atlantic on an SR-71.
  Do you know what one of my young staffers told me today that I missed 
last night? Jimmy Carter was the President during the 1980 election. 
How in the name of God did we waste $30 million on Gary Sick's stupid 
book charging that George Bush had access? He was not even a public 
figure then. He was retired from everything: U.N., China envoy, head of 
the party, U.S. Congressman. It was all behind him. He was a private 
citizen running for the Presidency in 1980. How would he get access to 
a top-secret Strategic Air Command reconnaissance aircraft from Diehl 
Air Force Base to spirit him off to Spain and back again? That should 
have been dismissed out of hand. But with a heavy heart, Mr. Foley 
wanted investigations, even though he did not believe in it.
  We dipped into the treasury again for $30 million, just like the 
wasted money on the JFK assassination when all we had to do was--that 
was multimillions of dollars--all we had to do was, 25 years after the 
fact, wait for all of the files to finally be declassified and we all 
found case closed. Lee Harvey Oswald, not a right-wing Texas nut, a 
left-wing, pro-Castro, pro-Moscow communist boot-licking little 
Marxist, blew the head off with a lucky shot, his third shot, of John 
F. Kennedy. Look at the millions of taxpayer money we wasted on that.
  I am asking my fellow Americans and you, Mr. Speaker, and my 
colleagues, read the 11-page story in Time magazine. Try to do an 
exegesis of the truth out of this.
  Time magazine has been falling all over the First Lady for the last 
year and 2 months, and finally they are beginning to see that their 
journalistic integrity is on the line. Get this cover story: ``Hard 
Times for Ms. Hillary.'' Now you can start to read with some basis of 
the trust what the news magazines are seeing now because they feel a 
little bit shocked and shameful that he got a free ride on all the 
stuff that is going to be difficult to discuss.
  Look, I am not going to go into the gory details of all the multiple 
womanizing charges and countercharges, though I believe almost every 
one of them. But it is tough this way. When a person called me once, 
sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, and said, ``This sounds tabloid, you 
sound like a tabloid,'' I think my answer was pretty good, ``Madam, 
when you discuss Bill Clinton's tabloid life, how can you not help but 
sound tabloid?''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Filner). The Chair must remind the 
gentleman the House rules prevent offensive remarks toward the 
President.
  Mr. DORNAN. Aye, aye, aye, right. When you discuss Bill Clinton's 
intricate, complicated life, how can you not help sounding like a 
tabloid? Is that OK? I guess it is.
  I am going to put in also yesterday's Wall Street Journal, St. 
Patrick's Day: ``Tyson's Foods, with a Friend in the White House, Gets 
Gentle Treatment from Agricultural Agency.'' Handsome picture of John 
Tyson, handsome picture of Bill Clinton, handsome picture of our former 
colleague, Mike Espy. This thing is now so intricate. How do you handle 
this with parliamentary procedure? Here is Bill Clinton talking about 
the astroturf in the back of his pickup truck. He is hit on a radio 
show about this. He says, ``Well, what it really was was that was where 
I carried my luggage.'' But he had said in Louisiana, in front of all 
these workers, that it was kind of a Southern thing, a real sort of 
Southern deal, ``I had astroturf in the back,'' he said to them, gaping 
mouths from his aides standing at his side, ``You don't want to know 
what I did.'' How do I handle this, what I am putting into the Record?

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  Following up the January fake 13-minute 60 Minutes, and then Ted 
Koppel's gift to the campaign crushing the draft-dodging charges, and 
then in March, the suppression of all the Whitewater; how does one 
handle what happened in June?
  A young student on MTV, and this was after his worst month of May, he 
is doing a comeback. Even though he has won most of the primaries he is 
in a deep funk according to Mark Miller of Newsweek who was inside the 
campaign for 14 months, never had to write a word until after the race 
was over.
  Deep funk in May, making a comeback. Don Imus, Rick Caplan of ABC 
advising him, all his friends, the other Thomasons from Hollywood 
advising him, makeup experts, hair stylists, $200 haircuts we never 
found out about.
  June 16, 1992, he goes on MTV. He slips. He thinks he's only talking 
to young people. They said, ``O.K.,'' the moderator, ``welcome back to 
`Facing the Future' with Bill Clinton. A lot of people haven't had a 
chance to ask a question. What's your question for the Governor?''
  Young guy stands up, does not even give a prologue:
  ``If you had to do it all over again, would you inhale?''
  Applause, applause.
  Governor Clinton: ``Sure, if I could. I tried before.''
  ``I remember when George Bush, Jr., came to me and said, ``We've got 
him, we've got him. We've got the video of this. It's in color. It's 
going to be a commercial all October.'' It shows him to be--I have got 
to watch the adjectives now--it shows him to be insincere and 
disingenuous on the pot smoking when he says he did not inhale:
  ``Sure, if I could; I tried before.''
  That spot never ran in October because all the Bushes were so 
hammered that they were gun shy on crime, their best issue, gun shy on 
draft dodging, gun shy on any S&L story, gun shy on Whitewater, and 
somebody got a free ride into the White House.
  As I said in September 1992, it will all come out when he picks up, 
in my very words, with the radio activity of the title: ``Leader of the 
Free World.'' I should have left out ``free.'' Just leader of the 
world. There are no other leaders.
  Tom Foley's quote, our distinguished great Speaker, is right here. 
First let me say that when I cover these categories of White House 
arrogance, of who was playing politics, of hypocrisy, and occasionally 
bring a column as this goes along like Mona Charen's today, I think the 
American people--well, let me quote Bill Clinton.
  ``It is important to remember that the most irresponsible people of 
all in the eighties were those at the top, not those who were doing the 
worst, not the hard-working class, but those who sold out savings and 
loans with bad deals.''
  That was the day he declared, on my half birthday, October 3, 1991. 
That is, let us see, May, June, July, August, September, less than 5 
months after the charges of Paula Jones.
  Let me tell my colleagues something else. Bill Clinton would not be 
the President of the United States if Rick Caplan had not given the 
Colonel Holmes letter to Clinton. He gave it to him. It was given to 
ABC as an exclusive for the electronic media, an exclusive to the Wall 
Street Journal. Wall Street Journal, Jeff Birnbaum, got his nose in the 
air. He had gotten into a little jealous tiff that they gave it to a 
network, so he started to play down the story. Rick Caplan gave Clinton 
the Colonel Holmes letter for 3 days to digest it, for Mandy Grunwald 
to write these three lines, for James Carville and Steffie to game plan 
it, work it, massage it, and then he went to Ted Koppel, 18 percent New 
Hampshire, in free fall, and he gets his own personal Nightline, and 
then they go into overtime like he's Winston Churchill, Margaret 
Thatcher or Helmut Kohl. It was unbelievable.
  October 3, that was his second kickoff. The first day, October 2, he 
had a press conference to condition the press. All they talked about 
were the multiple adulteries. He said this is going to come out on 
everybody. It never came out on Harkin, on Kerrey, on Tsongas, on Jerry 
Brown. What did he mean it was going to come out on everybody? Like it 
was all made up?
  Wait until I read next week the lines of Hillary Clinton on that 
special 13-minute ``60 Minutes'' show to Steve Croft's face, one 
distortion of the truth after another.
  Here is another Clinton line. This was that same kickoff day. 
Remember he had a private meeting at the Press Club with the press, 
talked about all the adulteries hoping that he could get himself 
inoculated and that they would not bring it up the next day. Worked 
like a charm. On October 3 he got to talk S&Ls.

  Here is another Clinton quote for the day:
  ``When the ripoff artists looted our S&Ls, President Bush was silent. 
In the Clinton administration, when people sell their companies, and 
their workers and their country down the river, they will get called on 
the carpet,''
  The Clinton administration is on the Fiske carpet, and they are on 
the Bob Dornan carpet.
  Mr. Speaker, I shall return next week.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Filner). Under a previous order of the 
House, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Michel] is recognized for 5 
minutes.

  [Mr. MICHEL addressed the House. His remarks will appear hereafter in 
the Extensions of Remarks.]

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