Back when the NYTimes wrote some news.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/05/u...inton-at-core-of-travel-office-case.html?_r=0
Memo Places Hillary Clinton At Core of Travel Office Case
A memorandum by a former Presidential aide depicts Hillary Rodham Clinton as the central figure in the 1993 travel office dismissals, a politically damaging episode that the aide said had resulted from a climate of fear in which officials did not dare question Mrs. Clinton's wishes.
The newly released draft memorandum, written by David Watkins, the former top administrative aide at the White House, also sharply contradicts the White House's official account of Mrs. Clinton as merely an interested observer in the events that led to the dismissal of the White House travel staff and their replacement with Clinton associates from Arkansas.
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In the memorandum, Mr. Watkins gives a detailed account that says the pressure for action came directly from Mrs. Clinton and indirectly through two close Clinton friends: Harry Thomason, a Hollywood producer and part-owner of an air-charter consulting firm, and Vincent W. Foster Jr., the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in July 1993.
"Once this made it onto the First Lady's agenda," Mr. Watkins wrote, "Vince Foster became involved, and he and Harry Thomason regularly informed me of her attention to the travel office situation -- as well as her insistence that the situation be resolved immediately by replacing the travel office staff.
"Foster regularly informed me that the First Lady was concerned and desired action -- the action desired was the firing of the travel office staff. On Friday, when I was in Memphis, Foster told me that it was important that I speak directly with the First Lady that day."
He wrote that he had called Mrs. Clinton that evening and that she had conveyed "her desire for swift and clear action to resolve the situation."
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After the travel office dismissals, White House officials acknowledged that they had acted rashly, and they rehired some employees.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry on the travel office resulted in the indictment of Billy R. Dale, the office's director, in December 1994, on charges of embezzling $68,000 paid by news organizations for Presidential trips. In November, a jury acquitted Mr. Dale.