It's a lengthy piece on John Podesta and his role in the Clinton administration, especially in saving Clinton's presidency from a variety of scandals.
John Podesta: Clinton's Mr. Fix-It
By Lloyd Grove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 30, 1998; Page D01
It's a good thing John Podesta has a sense of humor.
He's under inhuman stress these days as the White House official in charge of saving President Clinton from himself. It's a job that amounts to cleaning up after a rogue elephant.
As deputy chief of staff, the 49-year-old Podesta is leading the frantic struggle to protect and defend a man who has disgraced himself, imperiled his presidency, damaged the Democratic Party and betrayed family, friends and associates -- John Podesta conspicuous among them.
Podesta's humor, appropriately, is dark and mordant.
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He's a thin, moody, wraithlike man who, before joining the White House, had a long history in Democratic politics.
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Despite a cheekiness that borders on hostility and a sometimes snappish mien that colleagues identify as "John's evil twin, Skippy," Podesta says he's forgiven the president for lying to him (and to everyone else) about his escapades with the former White House intern.
Which is to say: Podesta has forgiven Clinton for entangling him in the effort to find Clinton's former lover a good job outside the White House -- for which Podesta arranged a job interview with then-United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson. And he's forgiven Clinton for letting him repeat various falsehoods about Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, under oath, to a federal grand jury. Both episodes figure prominently as possible grounds for impeachment in independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress.
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DustyRadio ago
How much the media forgets and has changed!! Case in point- we now have much more circumstantial evidence of terrible crimes by many of the government elite and they are completely ignoring it. In 1999, journalists far and wide accused the Clintons of waging war on journalism and of terrorizing and threatening journos who would "toe the line". Famously, Christopher Hitchens testified against Clinton in the congressional hearings and earned himself life long enemies- he died in 2011 of cancer. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1999/05/christopher-hitchens-testifies-monica-lewinsky
He also wrote a cautionary article re: the Clinton Foundation (in Slate of all places) in 2009, asking WTF.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2009/01/more_than_a_good_feeling.html The media has changed so radically in the last decade. This stuff would never be published now, especially by left leaning mags. He would be fighting this ridiculous censorship and BS if he were alive.