[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 27, 1994]
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                          WHO IS HAROLD ICKES?

  (Mr. GRAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GRAMS. Mr. Speaker, who is Harold Ickes?
  Officially, he is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, the top 
Clinton strategist for health care reform, and the administration's 
point man on Whitewater.
  Pretty impressive. But three is more to this picture than meets the 
eye.
  As his record in the Whitewater affair will attest, Mr. Ickes is a 
proven master in the art of stonewalling and political intimidation.
  Soon after arriving at the White House, Ickes pressured Roger Altman 
to stay at the RTC because the Clintons needed a friend on the inside. 
Then, he tried to remove attorney Jay Stephens from the Whitewater case 
because the Clintons didn't need any enemies.
  But most disturbing is a confidential memo Ickes sent to Hillary 
Clinton on the RTC, which has been redacted from 25 pages to just one 
paragraph. Where is the rest of the story? Only Harold Ickes and the 
White House know.
  If the people's faith in Government is ever to survive Whitewater, 
then the Clinton administration is going to have to tell the truth this 
week. And people like Harold Ickes are going to have to come clean.
  Who is Harold Ickes? The American people deserve to know.

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