attention on the inner workings of the west wing. it became a subject of continual reporting, especially bythe wall street journal,on its editorial page. particularly on people like deputy white house counsel vince foster. he was kind of being a scapegoat on the travel-office firings. like, who is vince foster? foster had a very good reputation before he went to washington. all of a sudden, he s in the limelight. one of the things that bothered foster is that the journalwas raising questions about what was going on there. this is really spooky. foster clearly is depressed. white house spokeswoman dee dee myers has confirmed that the president telephoned foster, inviting him to the white house to watch a movie on the evening of the 19th. foster declined to come. the movie, in the line of fire, stars clint eastwood as a secret service agent. and the question throughout the movie is, are you willing to step into the line of fire to protect your president?
controversy over bill clinton s vietnam draft deferment. after using a deferment long enough to avoid the draft, clinton backed out of his deal to join the rotc program. clinton called the charges a tired, old story. the character questions chipped away at clinton s poll numbers. less than a week before the new hampshire primary, he suddenly trailed by double digits. if you didn t finish first or second in new hampshire, it was over. bill clinton! but bill clinton wouldn t go down without a fight. his back against the wall, he surged to a second-place finish in new hampshire. new hampshire, tonight, has made bill clinton the comeback kid. [ cheers and applause ] with his new momentum, a wave of national reporters descended on little rock, arkansas. he was the democratic front-runner. so digging into who he was and into his past was a key part of what we do. march of 92, there was an
and, you know, he handed me this check. i don t know why i did, except that jim was a really good salesman. but the loans would not be enough to save madison savings and loan. in the mid- 80s, the savings and loans began to drop like flies. by march of 1989, madison had failed, requiring a $60 million taxpayer bailout. jim mcdougal had also bottomed out. susan had left him, he had been hospitalized for manic depression, and he was facing potential jail time. perhaps foreshadowing how politically toxic jim would soon become, the once-close friendship with bill clinton deteriorated. the relationship that once seemed so promising ended formally in 1992. just as clinton s star was rising. today, i proudly announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] the great emperor penguin migration. trekking a hundred miles inland to their breeding grounds. except for these two fellows.
and that is, they ve got a team from their home state, and this is the team that got him elected. so, who s gonna tell them that they don t know what they re doing? many of them came from the rose law firm. the rose law firm was a prominent little rock, arkansas, law firm. it was prominent because it had a lot of great lawyers, and among them were hillary clinton. there were two men who mentored hillary and guided her and smoothed her path. one was webb hubbell, and the other was vince foster. webster hubbell is a very accomplished lawyer. he was on the arkansas supreme court. vince foster also partnered at the rose law firm. very close with mrs. clinton in particular. foster would be probably the main litigator in the rose law firm. he d been president of the bar association. but he s probably the most highly thought-of lawyer in the whole group. when president clinton was elected, they asked mr. hubbell and mr. foster and another rose lawyer, bill kennedy, to go to washin
inside the old executive office building is the small unit that handles last-minute travel for the president and the media who accompany him. the travel office was an office within the white house. if we re going on air force one somewhere, we re gonna take 25 media. but citing corruption and bad management, the new administration wanted to clean house. there was a young lady working at the white house by the name of catherine cornelius that it s been reported that she was the second cousin of bill clinton. and she wanted the job. billy dale and the six members of his staff, most of whom had served for the presidencies of ronald reagan and george h.w. bush, were suddenly dismissed without warning. the press complained to me, repeatedly, about being gouged by the white house travel office. now, if it wasn t handled right, we ll get to the bottom of it. that was bad business, and it smelled bad. and the new people did a lousy job. last weekend, we were able to have about a