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ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS
[Since the Democrats seem determined to nominate Hillary Clinton, we
thought we would offer a little historical context from our time line of
Arkansas and the Clintons, with particular emphasis on those things the
mainstream media forgot to tell you]
1974
27 year old Clinton, only months out of Yale Law School, is back in
Arkansas eager to run for Congress. Roger Morris writes later in
'Partners in Power', "A relative unknown, he faces an imposing field of
rivals in the Democratic primary, and beyond, in the general election, a
powerful Republican incumbent. Yet as soon as he enters the race, Mr.
Clinton enjoys a decisive seven-to-one advantage in campaign funds over
the nearest Democratic competitor, and will spend twice as much as his
well-supported GOP opponent. It begins with a quiet meeting at his
mother's house in Hot Springs. Around the kitchen table, as Virginia
Clinton will describe the scene, avid young Billy meets with two of his
most crucial early backers -- uncle Raymond G. Clinton, a prosperous
local Buick dealer, and family friend and wealthy businessman Gabe
Crawford.
As they talk, Mr. Crawford offers the candidate unlimited use of his
private plane, and Uncle Raymond not only provides several houses around
the district to serve as campaign headquarters, but will secure a
$10,000 loan to Bill from the First National Bank of Hot Springs - an
amount then equal to the yearly income of many Arkansas families.
Together, the money and aircraft and other gifts, including thousands
more in secret donations, will launch Mr. Clinton in the most richly
financed race in the annals of Arkansas -- and ultimately onto the most
richly financed political career in American history. Though he loses
narrowly , his showing is so impressive, especially in his capacity to
attract such money and favours, that he rises rapidly to become state
attorney-general, then governor, and eventually, with much the same
backing and advantage, president of the United States . . .
No mere businessman with a spare plane, Gabe Crawford presided over a
backroom bookie operation that was one of Hot Springs' most lucrative
criminal enterprises. [And the] inimitable Uncle Raymond - who had also
played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in keeping young Bill out of the
Vietnam draft - was far more than an auto dealer. In the nationally
prominent fount of vice and corruption that was Hot Springs from the
1920s to the 1980s (its barely concealed casinos generated more income
than Las Vegas well into the 1960s), the uncle's Buick agency and other
businesses and real estate were widely thought to be facades for illegal
gambling, drug money laundering and other ventures, in which Raymond was
a partner. He was a minion of the organized crime overlord who
controlled the American Middle South for decades, New Orleans boss
Carlos Marcello or "Mafia Kingfish" as his biographer John Davis called
him."
ORDER 'PARTNERS IN POWER'
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0895263025/progressiverevieA/
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HIDING HILLARY CLINTON'S THESIS
BILL DEDMAN, MSNBC, MAR 2007 - It was early 1993, in the first days of
the Clinton administration, when Hillary Clinton's friend and former
thesis adviser at Wellesley College took the phone call that would land
him in the middle of a political intrigue. "I got a call from someone at
the White House --- I don't remember who --- shortly after the
inauguration, saying the Clintons had decided not to release her
thesis," professor Alan H. Schechter told MSNBC.com.
"I said, 'Why? It's a good thesis.' I got some mumbo jumbo about how
they were beginning to work on health care and she had criticized Sen.
Moynihan in the thesis, and didn't want to alienate him. In fact, the
thesis from 1969 contains not a negative word about Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, the late Democratic senator from New York, and Schechter
allows that the real source of fear must have been the subject of the
academic paper: Chicago radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
"I argued with them that they should release it," the emeritus professor
said in the telephone interview from North Carolina, one stop on his
tour of Wellesley alumnae groups to discuss their favorite topic these
days, the political development of Hillary Clinton. "The more you hide
something, the more people will want it," Schechter said. "It was a
stupid political decision, obviously, at the time.". . .
After the call from the White House, Wellesley's president, Nannerl
Overholser Keohane, consulted with lawyers and closed access to any
thesis written by a U.S. president or first lady, a rule affecting only
Hillary D. Rodham's thesis. Keohane moved on later that year to be
president of Duke University, and now is a visiting professor at
Princeton, where she teaches political philosophy, leadership and
feminist theory. An Arkansan who was eight years ahead of Hillary Rodham
at Wellesley, Keohane is a regular contributor to Democratic candidates
and to a congressional PAC that gives exclusively to Democrats,
including Hillary Clinton.
When MSNBC.com called Keohane last week at Princeton to ask about the
thesis, she replied, "I have no memory of this," and hung up the phone.
To give her time to gather her thoughts, MSNBC.com e-mailed questions to
her, and she replied, "I do not recall this situation, and cannot help
you with this issue. You will need to rely on the people at Wellesley
who are more current on this issue than I am.". . .
MSNBC.com asked Sen. Clinton, through her office and presidential
campaign staff, whether she would consent to an interview to discuss the
thesis and whether she would give permission for MSNBC.com to publish
the paper in full. Her Senate staff declined the interview request, and
her presidential campaign staff did not reply.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388394/
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ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS
[Since the Democrats seem determined to nominate Hillary Clinton, we
thought we would offer a little historical context from our time line of
Arkansas and the Clintons, with particular emphasis on those things the
mainstream media forgot to tell you]
1974
27 year old Clinton, only months out of Yale Law School, is back in
Arkansas eager to run for Congress. Roger Morris writes later in
'Partners in Power', "A relative unknown, he faces an imposing field of
rivals in the Democratic primary, and beyond, in the general election, a
powerful Republican incumbent. Yet as soon as he enters the race, Mr.
Clinton enjoys a decisive seven-to-one advantage in campaign funds over
the nearest Democratic competitor, and will spend twice as much as his
well-supported GOP opponent. It begins with a quiet meeting at his
mother's house in Hot Springs. Around the kitchen table, as Virginia
Clinton will describe the scene, avid young Billy meets with two of his
most crucial early backers -- uncle Raymond G. Clinton, a prosperous
local Buick dealer, and family friend and wealthy businessman Gabe
Crawford.
As they talk, Mr. Crawford offers the candidate unlimited use of his
private plane, and Uncle Raymond not only provides several houses around
the district to serve as campaign headquarters, but will secure a
$10,000 loan to Bill from the First National Bank of Hot Springs - an
amount then equal to the yearly income of many Arkansas families.
Together, the money and aircraft and other gifts, including thousands
more in secret donations, will launch Mr. Clinton in the most richly
financed race in the annals of Arkansas -- and ultimately onto the most
richly financed political career in American history. Though he loses
narrowly , his showing is so impressive, especially in his capacity to
attract such money and favours, that he rises rapidly to become state
attorney-general, then governor, and eventually, with much the same
backing and advantage, president of the United States . . .
No mere businessman with a spare plane, Gabe Crawford presided over a
backroom bookie operation that was one of Hot Springs' most lucrative
criminal enterprises. [And the] inimitable Uncle Raymond - who had also
played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in keeping young Bill out of the
Vietnam draft - was far more than an auto dealer. In the nationally
prominent fount of vice and corruption that was Hot Springs from the
1920s to the 1980s (its barely concealed casinos generated more income
than Las Vegas well into the 1960s), the uncle's Buick agency and other
businesses and real estate were widely thought to be facades for illegal
gambling, drug money laundering and other ventures, in which Raymond was
a partner. He was a minion of the organized crime overlord who
controlled the American Middle South for decades, New Orleans boss
Carlos Marcello or "Mafia Kingfish" as his biographer John Davis called
him."
ORDER 'PARTNERS IN POWER'
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0895263025/progressiverevieA/
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HIDING HILLARY CLINTON'S THESIS
BILL DEDMAN, MSNBC, MAR 2007 - It was early 1993, in the first days of
the Clinton administration, when Hillary Clinton's friend and former
thesis adviser at Wellesley College took the phone call that would land
him in the middle of a political intrigue. "I got a call from someone at
the White House --- I don't remember who --- shortly after the
inauguration, saying the Clintons had decided not to release her
thesis," professor Alan H. Schechter told MSNBC.com.
"I said, 'Why? It's a good thesis.' I got some mumbo jumbo about how
they were beginning to work on health care and she had criticized Sen.
Moynihan in the thesis, and didn't want to alienate him. In fact, the
thesis from 1969 contains not a negative word about Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, the late Democratic senator from New York, and Schechter
allows that the real source of fear must have been the subject of the
academic paper: Chicago radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
"I argued with them that they should release it," the emeritus professor
said in the telephone interview from North Carolina, one stop on his
tour of Wellesley alumnae groups to discuss their favorite topic these
days, the political development of Hillary Clinton. "The more you hide
something, the more people will want it," Schechter said. "It was a
stupid political decision, obviously, at the time.". . .
After the call from the White House, Wellesley's president, Nannerl
Overholser Keohane, consulted with lawyers and closed access to any
thesis written by a U.S. president or first lady, a rule affecting only
Hillary D. Rodham's thesis. Keohane moved on later that year to be
president of Duke University, and now is a visiting professor at
Princeton, where she teaches political philosophy, leadership and
feminist theory. An Arkansan who was eight years ahead of Hillary Rodham
at Wellesley, Keohane is a regular contributor to Democratic candidates
and to a congressional PAC that gives exclusively to Democrats,
including Hillary Clinton.
When MSNBC.com called Keohane last week at Princeton to ask about the
thesis, she replied, "I have no memory of this," and hung up the phone.
To give her time to gather her thoughts, MSNBC.com e-mailed questions to
her, and she replied, "I do not recall this situation, and cannot help
you with this issue. You will need to rely on the people at Wellesley
who are more current on this issue than I am.". . .
MSNBC.com asked Sen. Clinton, through her office and presidential
campaign staff, whether she would consent to an interview to discuss the
thesis and whether she would give permission for MSNBC.com to publish
the paper in full. Her Senate staff declined the interview request, and
her presidential campaign staff did not reply.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388394/
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