NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY

VOL. 2 NO. 5 AUGUST 1996

Fat Cat Where to stay in the nationÕs capital? If youÕre one of the Democratic PartyÕs big donors or fund-raisers, your hotel of choice isnÕt the Four Seasons or the Ritz-Carlton. ItÕs the White House.

BY MARGARET EBRAHIM

n June 1996, Forbes magazine report- get a donor two meals with President The Center for Public Integrity has ed that the Democratic National Clinton, two meals with Vice President determined that, since 1993, more than ICommittee was using overnight stays Albert Gore Jr., a slot on a foreign trade 75 Democratic contributors and fund- at the White House as a perk to entice mission with DNC leaders, and other raisers have spent the night in the White wealthy donors to make six-figure con- benefits, such as a daily HouseÑmostly in the tributions to the party. For a contribu- fax report and an Lincoln or QueenÕs tion of $130,000, Òyou can spend the assigned DNC staff ÔThis has become an BedroomsÑas guests of night in Abraham LincolnÕs bed,Ó ABC member to assist with President and Mrs. NewsÕs David Brinkley, picking up on their Òpersonal urban myth, like the Clinton. the Forbes item, said on This Week With requests.Ó alligators in the When guests spend David Brinkley, the Sunday-morning tele- Fowler responded to the night in the Lincoln vision show. ÒBut be warned. I am told charges that the party sewers of New York.Õ or the QueenÕs Bedroom, LincolnÕs bed is hard and lumpy.Ó and the President were they receive five-star ÒThis has become an urban myth, like selling access and influ- AMY WEISS TOBE, PRESS SECRETARY, treatment. At night, the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE the alligators in the sewers of New ence to contributors by beds are turned down York,Ó Amy Weiss Tobe, the DNCÕs saying that such fund- and breakfast menus press secretary, told the Center for raising efforts would continue until the placed on the beds. Guests may choose Public Integrity. ÒIt is just not true.Ó law requires both parties to operate dif- where they would like to eat breakfastÑ ThereÕs nothing unusual, of course, ferently. ÒUntil the system is changed, possibly in the solarium or the sitting about politicians and political parties we will not unilaterally disarm,Ó Fowler room next to the Lincoln BedroomÑand ÒservicingÓ their donors and fund-rais- reportedly said, accurately reflecting the which newspapers they would like to ers. In the summer of 1995, the DNCÑin fact that every party and administration read in the morning. Most guests receive a letter signed by the partyÕs co-chair- have given special treatment to its a pass to roam the White HouseÕs resi- men, Senator Christopher Dodd of biggest supporters. A Democratic lobby- dential quarters. Almost every guest Connecticut and Donald Fowler, and ist familiar with perks for contributors with whom the Center for Public Integrity spoke said that spending the night in the White House was an honor. SPECIAL ISSUE It is important to note that not all of the overnight guests at the White House first disclosed by the Chicago Sun- told National Journal that spending the are contributors or fund-raisers. Ann TimesÑoffered potential supporters a night at the White House was like hav- Lewis, the Clinton campaignÕs deputy ÒmenuÓ of rewards. A contribution of ing access to Òthe best candy store in manager and director of communica- $100,000 or more, for example, would town.Ó tions, sent a letter to Brinkley in which she pointed out that many others have spend the night at the White House was slept in the Lincoln Bedroom, including , the former chairman of Òthe cook from ClintonÕs old governorÕs MCA Inc., an entertainment conglomer- The Public i is the newsletter of mansion in Little Rock, a theology stu- ate. Although Wasserman has spent the the Center for Public Integrity. dent with his wife and two children, and night in the White House at the invita- The Center for Public Integrity an old friend who is not well, and the tion of various presidents, his clout was established in 1989 to create presidentÕs pastor and his wife, and within the Democratic Party has given a mechanism through which none of them paid as much as a dime,Ó him special access to Democratic presi- important national issues can be Brinkley said on the following weekÕs dents. investigated and analyzed by program. Other overnight guests have In the late 1970s, the late John White, talented, responsible journalists included former President George Bush; then the chairman of the Democratic over a period of months and the former President and Mrs. Jimmy National Committee, informed written material can be Carter; Leah Rabin, the widow of Yitzak Wasserman that the Democratic Party presented in full form without Rabin, the late Israeli Prime Minister; might have to vacate its Washington the traditional time and space former Texas Governor Ann Richards; headquarters because of a financial limitations. Published Center and Lee Iacocca, the former chairman short-fall brought on by the multimil- studies then become resources for journalists, academics, and and chief executive officer of Chrysler lion-dollar debt from the 1968 presiden- other researchers. Corporation. tial campaign. Wasserman proceeded to The Democratic fat cats whoÕve spent take out his checkbook and write a sub- A membership to the Center, the night at the White House include stantial check that kept the DNC offices which includes a subscription to Steven Grossman, the president of open, White told the Center in a 1993 The Public i, is $30 a year. Massachusetts Envelope Company, and interview. his wife, Barbara. They attended a state What did Wasserman seek in return? The Public i dinner for the president of Brazil in Not anything, really, White told the 1634 I Street, N.W. April 1995 and, later that evening, Center. But there was one occasion, he Suite 902 retired to the historic QueenÕs Bedroom. recalled, when Wasserman was coming Washington, D.C. 20006 Steven Grossman told the Center that it to Washington and couldnÕt find a hotel (202) 783-3900 http://www.essential.org/cpi was Òa memorable eveningÓ and that he room. He called White, who telephoned was ÒhonoredÓ to have been invited to the owner of WashingtonÕs expensive the White House. When asked what he Madison Hotel, imploring him to accom- THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY thought about David BrinkleyÕs report modate Mr. Wasserman. Unfortunately, on sleepovers at the White House for no room was available. White smiled FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR substantial contributions to the proudly and recalled that he finally Charles Lewis Democratic Party, Grossman replied, ÒI found overnight lodging for the wealthy have no comment.Ó mogulÑat BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Grossmans have the White House, in the Josie Goytisolo, Charles Lewis, contributed at least Lincoln Bedroom. This Susan Lowenberg, $400,000 to the ÔThey let you call favor for Wasserman, Charles Piller, Allen Pusey, Democratic Party and to anywhere, so I called White said, was Òjust a Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Clinton since 1991. In my kids from the small thing.Ó Paula Walker 1994, Clinton appointed Wasserman and his Barbara Grossman, who Lincoln Bedroom.Õ wife, Edie, have spent MANAGING DIRECTOR Alejandro Benes is a professor of theater the night in the Lincoln at Tufts University, to Bedroom at least twice RICHARD DREYFUSS DIRECTOR OF the National Council for during the Clinton presi- INVESTIGATIVE PROJECTS the Arts. Steven dency and have con- Bill Hogan Grossman is the president of the tributed at least $450,000 to Clinton and American Israel Public Affairs the Democratic Party since 1991. He has DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Committee and has been a managing also contributed to ClintonÕs Legal Barbara W. Schecter trustee of the DNC. Grossman, a former Expense Trust, established by the SENIOR ASSOCIATES chairman of the Massachusetts President and Mrs. Clinton to help pay Margaret Ebrahim Democratic Party, told the Center for for their mounting legal bills from the Diane Renzulli Public Integrity that he has Òa working Whitewater investigation and the Paula relationshipÓ with President Clinton that Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. In THE PUBLIC I goes back many years. 1992, Wasserman invited 100 of his FOUNDING EDITOR Another Democratic contributor friends to attend a fund-raiser for Marianne Szegedy-Maszak whom President Clinton invited to Clinton and the Democratic Party spon-

2 THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY sored by the Hollywood WomenÕs people to come because they owed me Bradbury was a member of the Clinton- Political Committee. The minimum price something or I owed them something. I Gore Arkansas Finance Council. In 1992, of admission: $5,000. In June 1996, told them to come because he [Clinton] while Bradbury was still with Worthen Wasserman hosted a fund-raiser that is a good man.Ó National Bank, the bank extended a $3.5 raised more than $1 million for the In 1993, the Orange County million line of credit to ClintonÕs presi- Democratic Party. Over the years, Commission hired Batchelor to lobby the dential campaign. ÒI would like to be in Wasserman has contributed more than federal government for a a position to think I $1 million to the Democrats. He declined slice of the federal trans- could call the President the CenterÕs request for an interview. portation pie. News of the United States and Here is a partial list of Democratic accounts at the time sug- ÔIt was really give him my views,Ó contributors and fund-raisers who have gested that Batchelor had specialÑa thrill. I Bradbury told the spent the night at the Clinton White been hired at least partly Arkansas Times in 1992. House since 1993. because of his connec- donÕt know exactly After ClintonÕs election, tions to the Clinton what gets you an Bradbury was invited to TRUMAN AND ANITA ARNOLD Administration. In 1994, invitation. I donÕt join the American Truman Arnold is the chairman and Clinton appointed Banking AssociationÕs chief executive officer of Truman Arnold Batchelor to a U.S. dele- know why I got board of directors. Companies, a wholesale petroleum dis- gation that witnessed the invited, but itÕs a Bradbury said that tributor in Texarkana, Texas. Arnold, the elections in South Africa. damn nice honor.Õ he and his wife, founder and former owner of the In October 1993, Charlotte, will never Roadrunner convenience store chain, Batchelor and his wife forget spending the also has construction, banking, and cat- spent their 10th anniver- WARREN STEPHENS night in the Lincoln tle interests. He was the Democratic sary in the QueenÕs Bedroom in 1993. National CommitteeÕs finance chairman Bedroom. ÒThere was the ÒThere is a handwritten for five months in 1995. He was the reception that they [the Clintons] cus- Gettysburg address [in the Lincoln chairman of the 1992 Clinton-Gore cam- tomarily have for their friends,Ó he said. Bedroom], so itÕs like being in a muse- paign in Texas and headed the cam- ÒJody Powell and Larry King were there, um,Ó he told the Center for Public paignÕs 1992 energy advisory committee. and we watched [the movie] Rudy.Ó Integrity. ÒThe night JFK was shot, his In 1995, Clinton spent the night at their brother Bobby spent the night there. home in , and in 1996, the ALLEN BIRD They say you could hear him weeping. Arnolds were guests at a state dinner for Allen Bird is a senior partner at the If you donÕt feel like youÕre absorbing French President Jacques Chirac hosted in Little Rock, Arkansas, history, youÕre missing the point.Ó by the Clintons. Truman Arnold where Hillary Rodham Clinton was a Companies frequently provided air partner. In the 1970s, Bird worked as a PHILLIP AND DIANE CARROLL transportation for Clinton when he was statehouse lobbyist for then-Governor Phillip Carroll is a senior partner at governor of Arkansas. Truman Arnold Clinton. After ClintonÕs election, Bird the Rose Law Firm. He and his wife, did not respond to the CenterÕs moved to the nationÕs capital to open a Diane, stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom inquiries. Washington office for the Rose Law the night after White House associate Firm. In November 1994, the office was counsel , a former partner in JERRY AND STEPHANIE ATCHLEY closed and he returned to Arkansas. Bird the Rose Law Firm, committed suicide. Jerry Atchley is the president and told the Center for Public Integrity that In a letter to the Center for Public chief executive officer of Southern Skies, he didnÕt want to talk about his Integrity, Carroll wrote: ÒMy wife and I an Arkansas-based broadcasting compa- overnight stay at the White House flew to Washington, D.C., on July 21, ny that owns several radio stations, because it was Òpersonal business.Ó 1993, to be with our dear friend, Lisa including KSSN (FM) in Little Rock. Foster, and her children. We left home Atchley declined to be interviewed. CURT AND CHARLOTTE BRADBURY on short notice and originally intended Curt Bradbury, a former president to fly back home that evening or to DICK AND ANDREA BATCHELOR and chief executive officer of Little Rock- spend the night with our daughter, who Dick Batchelor is a former Florida based Worthen National Bank, is the lives in Washington D.C. . . . After state representative. In 1991, he orga- chief operating officer of Stephens Inc., spending several hours at LisaÕs home, nized the first fund-raising event in one of the nationÕs largest investment we returned to the White House and Florida for ClintonÕs presidential cam- banking firms. He is presently a member were escorted to the Lincoln Bedroom, paign. According to Batchelor, the event of the State Board of Higher Education where we spent the night.Ó raised only $8,000. ÒI was there early on in Arkansas, and in 1994 Clinton and did their first fund-raiser when appointed him to the PresidentÕs CHEVY CHASE nobody knew who Clinton was,Ó he told Committee on Arts and the Humanities. Chevy Chase, an who has been the Center for Public Integrity. ÒI got During the 1992 presidential campaign, one of ClintonÕs biggest supporters in

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY 3 Hollywood, co-sponsored a $1,000-a- his own Òpersonal political adviser,Ó Twin City Bank in Arkansas. She has plate fund-raiser for Clinton in 1992 according to . The contributed to ClintonÕs Legal Expense with actor Richard Dreyfuss, producer Òadviser,Ó Donna Bojarsky, has sched- Trust. Margaret Eldridge told the Center Jon Peters, and playwright Neil Simon. uled meetings for Dreyfuss with for Public Integrity that she and her hus- Chase has performed at several fund- Presidents and prime ministers. In 1992, band stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom at raisers to benefit the Democratic Party, Dreyfuss gave stump speeches on the invitation of Hillary Rodham including one in Little Rock in 1992 that ClintonÕs first campaign bus trip and co- Clinton, adding that they were invited raised $3 million. In 1994, Chase per- sponsored a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser because they are Òfamily friends.Ó They formed at another Democratic fund-rais- for Clinton with actor Chevy Chase, pro- have given only modest contributions to er, in Washington, D.C., and left with ducer Jon Peters, and playwright Neil the Democrats, she said. President Clinton after the event. Chase Simon. Dreyfuss spent a night in the did not respond to the CenterÕs Lincoln Bedroom in April 1996 and had RICHARD FRIEDMAN inquiries. an early-morning chat with Clinton, Richard Friedman is a wealthy who woke him at 7:20 a.m. to talk poli- Boston-based real estate developer. He MIKE CONWAY tics, according to The Washington Post. owns restaurants, , and shopping Mike Conway is a partner in the ÒThey let you call anywhere,Ó Dreyfuss centers, as well as a 20-acre estate on Chicago-based law firm of Hopkins and told a reporter for Time magazine, Òso I MarthaÕs Vineyard where the Clintons Sutter. He was a classmate of the called my kids from the Lincoln vacationed for two summers. Friedman Clintons at Yale Law School. In 1992, Bedroom.Ó has since taken to calling his home the Conway was the chairman of Lawyers ÒClinton Cottage.Ó By all accounts, for Clinton. In June 1996, Conway was a PATRICIA DUFF Friedman is a colorful multimillionaire guest at a state dinner for Irish President Patricia Duff and her former hus- who gravitates toward the rich and Mary Robinson. ÒI have known the band, Mike Medavoy, were early Clinton famous. ÒI love people who have a Clintons for 24 yearsÑIÕm their friend,Ó supporters and helped to introduce tremendous amount of creative energyÑ Conway told the Center for Public Clinton to Hollywood by hosting fund- whether they are in Hollywood, busi- Integrity in explaining why he wouldnÕt raisers. In 1992, Clinton was a guest at ness, or the White House,Ó Friedman answer questions about his overnight their Coldwater Canyon home on one of told the Boston Business Journal. ÒHighly stay at the White House. his early trips to California as a presi- successful people excite me.Ó dential candidate. Duff is a member of Friedman has hobnobbed with MICHAEL AND BETH COULSON the Hollywood WomenÕs Political on the ski slopes of Michael Coulson is the president of Committee and the founder of Show Aspen, Colorado, and dined with Mike Coulson Oil Company in Little Rock. In Coalition. Both organizations are credit- Medavoy, the former chief executive 1988, CoulsonÕs wife, Beth, was appoint- ed with giving Clinton a broader audi- officer of Tri-Star Pictures. Both ed to the Arkansas Court of Appeals. ence of supporters in Hollywood. Streisand and Medavoy have been Critics of the appointment, according to Clinton made four trips to Los Angeles overnight guests at the White House. In the Dallas Morning News, charged that at the coalitionÕs invitation. Duff is also December 1995, Friedman joined other she had little experience for the job and heading Women Vote!, a get-out-the- Democratic insiders in the White House got it only because of her husbandÕs vote drive thatÕs affiliated with EMILYÕs for dinner and a movie with the close ties to Clinton. Michael Coulson List, a political action committee dedi- President. After dinner, the guests made has contributed to the Presidential Legal cated to helping more women win elec- their way to the theater in the east wing Expense Trust, which the Clintons estab- tions. In 1995, Duff and her husband, of the White House for a private screen- lished to help pay their mounting legal Ron Perelman, the billionaire cosmetics ing of Nixon, Oliver StoneÕs three-and-a- bills from the Whitewater investigation magnate, hosted a $1 million event for half-hour epic. Friedman bowed out of and the Paula Jones sexual harassment Clinton in Palm Beach, Florida. They the movie, according to a guest that lawsuit. Michael Coulson did not also hosted an exclusive meeting for evening, to spend more time in the respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. potential big-ticket contributors with Lincoln Bedroom. Friedman did not Leon Panetta, the White House chief of respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. H. TYNDALL AND CARRIE DICKINSON staff. Duff did not respond to the Tyndall Dickinson is the president of CenterÕs inquiries. McGeorge Contracting Company in David Geffen, the co-founder of Sweet Home, Arkansas. He has con- DAVE AND MARGARET ELDRIDGE DreamWorks SKG, is considered a key tributed to ClintonÕs Legal Expense Dave and Margaret Eldridge have fund-raising strategist in Hollywood for Trust. their own consulting firm, Eldridge & ClintonÕs re-election campaign. He has Eldridge, in Little Rock. Dave Eldridge hosted several fund-raisers for Clinton: RICHARD DREYFUSS is a former vice president of Arkansas one, with DreamWorks SKG partners Richard Dreyfuss is an actor whose Power & Light Company; Margaret and , interest in politics is so keen that he has Eldridge is a former vice president of raised $2 million in 1995; another two in

4 THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ÒThey have always been used that way for every President, and we do not divulge information to the public or press Top Secret about these records.Ó The usherÕs logbook records the movements of the The names of overnight guests at the Clinton White House are President, First Lady, and others in the family quarters at the a closely guarded secret. White House, including the hour the President gets up in the ÒThis is their [the First FamilyÕs] home, and they have morning, eats dinner at night, who visits the residential quar- guests visit them all the time,Ó Neel Lattimore, Mrs. ClintonÕs ters, and which rooms guests stay in. Such logbooks have press secretary, told the Center for Public Integrity. ÒMrs. been maintained for more than 100 years and reflect the com- Clinton and Chelsea have friends that spend the night, but ings and goings in the residential quarters of the White House. these names are not available to the public.Ó At the end of a presidential term, when the First Family leaves Friends of Mrs. Clinton and Chelsea, however, arenÕt the the White House, the logbooks are presented to the First Lady. only guests who spend the night at the White House. The As White House records go, the usherÕs logbooks are clear- Center for Public Integrity determined that many Democratic ly one of the best-kept secrets. ÒI worked in the Carter Library contributors and fund-raisers have been invited to spend the for ten years before I came to work on the Bush project, and I night at the White House. Over the past few months, the can tell you I have never heard of these records and I have Center asked White House officials for a list of all guests who never seen them,Ó David Alsobrook, the acting director of the have stayed overnight at the White House at the invitation of Bush Presidential Materials Project, told the Center. Nor have President and Mrs. Clinton, but they repeatedly side-stepped the archivists working with presidential papers at the National all inquiries, referring the Center to other offices. Archives and at the Reagan and Carter libraries heard of them. The Center asked George Stephanopoulos, a senior adviser The reason that archivists, and many other experts the to President Clinton, whether he knew of Democratic contrib- Center talked to, have never heard of the logbooks is that utors who had been invited to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom. ÒI Presidents have typically categorized them as personal records. donÕt know anything about that,Ó Stephanopoulos said, direct- The Presidential Records Act of 1978 draws a distinction ing the Center to the White House Social SecretaryÕs office. between ÒPresidential recordsÓ and Òpersonal records,Ó noting ÒI donÕt think there is a list like that,Ó Heather Raiden of that the government Òshall reserve and retain complete owner- the Social SecretaryÕs office told the Center. ÒNo one in the ship, possession, and control of the Presidential records.Ó White House will release that kind of information about The law defines personal records as Òall documentary guests anyway. I think itÕs for security reasons.Ó materials . . . of a purely private or nonpublic character which The Center for Public Integrity sent Freedom of do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the Information Act requests to the counsel to the President and to constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties the Secret Service. ÒThe Office of the President, including the of the President.Ó PresidentÕs immediate personal staff and units within the Who decides which records are ÒPresidentialÓ and which Executive Office whose sole function is to advise and assist the are ÒpersonalÓ? The President. ÒThe act says that the incum- President, is not an ÔagencyÕ for purposes of FOIA,Ó Marvin bent president and his staff decide what are personal records Krislov, an associate counsel to the President, replied in a let- and what are presidential records,Ó Nancy Smith, an archivist ter. ÒConsequently, FOIA does not establish a statutory right to at the National Archives, said. The applicable portion of the the documents that you have requested from the Office of the law reads as follows: ÒDocumentary materials produced or President, if such documents exist.Ó received by the President, his staff, or units or individuals in The Center sent a follow-up letter to Krislov, pointing out the Executive Office of the President . . . shall, to the extent that the White House could voluntarily provide the docu- practicable, be categorized as Presidential records or personal ments even if FOIA did not apply. He did not reply to the let- records upon their creation or receipt and be filed separately.Ó ter, nor did he return subsequent telephone calls from the The line between personal activities and Òconstitutional, Center. Krislov resigned from the White House on March 31, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the 1996, to become the Labor DepartmentÕs deputy solicitor for PresidentÓ seems to be blurry since government officials and national operations. John Simpson, the Secret ServiceÕs foreign dignitaries, to name a few, often visit the President on Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts Officer, said that the official business in the First FamilyÕs residential quarters. Secret Service doesnÕt Òhave a list like that and we wouldnÕt Although President Lyndon B. Johnson donated his log- break it down like that . . . who stayed in what rooms and books to the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas, the records were who stayed overnight.Ó considered to be part of JohnsonÕs most confidential papers The Center determined that the Office of the Usher at the and only became open to the public in 1993. White House is the custodian of records that include In 1974, Patricia Nixon did away with the logbooks because overnight guests. ÒThese records are for private use by the she felt that they Òwere too personalÑwhat time they get up, First Family,Ó said Dennis Freemyer, an assistant usher who what they eat for breakfast, the names of their friends coming has worked in the White House for four administrations. in,Ó according to a 1974 column in The Washington Post.

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY 5 Geffen got Òa perk any Washington has been instrumental in introducing Hernreich is a former owner of Sigma lobbyist would die for: phone chats with Clinton to Las Vegas contributors, and in Broadcasting Corporation, which had White House chief of staff Mack 1996 Clinton attended a $25,000-a-couple two television stations in Arkansas. He McLarty.Ó He told Time magazine: ÒI luncheon that Greenspun hosted in his also has real estate and health care inter- have no active involvement in trying to Las Vegas home. According to The ests. The Hernreich family has given influence legislation of any kind.Ó He Houston Chronicle, a number of gambling Clinton more than $40,000 since 1981 attended a state dinner for Russian industry executives attended the lun- and are among his top ten career President Boris Yeltsin in 1994. Geffen cheon, including Stephen Wynn, the patrons, according to The Buying of the did not respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. chairman of Mirage Resorts Inc. In 1993, President. Bob Hernreich did not respond Clinton appointed Greenspun to the to the CenterÕs inquiries. JOSEPH GELLER White House Conference on Small Joseph Geller is a partner in Geller, Business. Greenspun did not respond to FRANK KUMPURIS Geller & Garfinkel, a law firm in Dania, the CenterÕs inquiries. Frank Kumpuris, a retired surgeon in Florida, and the chairman of the Dade Little Rock, met Clinton in 1982 when he County Democratic Party. Geller did not MARK AND LIBBY GROBMYER became involved in ClintonÕs third respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. Mark Grobmyer, a godson of the late gubernatorial campaign. Clinton later Jackson Stephens, was a member of the appointed Kumpuris to be a trustee of GORDON GIFFIN Clinton-Gore Arkansas Finance Council the University of Arkansas Board. Gordon Giffin, a lawyer with Long, during the 1992 presidential election. Kumpuris did not respond to the Aldridge & Norman, an Atlanta-based Grobmyer, a lawyer with Arnold CenterÕs inquiries. firm, ran ClintonÕs Georgia campaign in Grobmyer & Haley, often does work for 1992. He was also the personnel director Stephens Inc. He was a law student at M. LARRY AND SHELIA LAWRENCE of ClintonÕs transition team. When the University of Arkansas while M. Larry Lawrence, who died in January Erskine Bowles resigned as White House Clinton was teaching there. A longtime of this year, was a wealthy real estate deputy chief of staff in 1995, GiffinÕs friend of Albert and Tipper Gore, he developer whose properties included name surfaced as a possible replace- introduced Clinton to Gore in 1988. the Hotel del Coronado in . ment. He was the finance chairman of Mark Grobmyer did not respond to the Over his lifetime, Lawrence contributed the Georgia Democratic Party. In 1993, CenterÕs inquiries. at least $10 million to Democrats, Clinton appointed Giffin to the board of according to . In 1994, directors of the Overseas Private STEVEN AND BARBARA GROSSMAN the Federal Election Commission fined Investment Corporation. Giffin did not Steven Grossman, the president of Lawrence $7,179 for excessive yearly respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. Massachusetts Envelope Company, and campaign contributions. In 1992, his wife, Barbara, are big contributors to Lawrence served on ClintonÕs national GARY DAVID GOLDBERG AND DIANA MEEHAN the Democratic Party. (See above.) finance board, and his wife, Shelia, Gary David Goldberg, a television headed the Clinton-Gore campaign in producer, and his wife, Diana Meehan, a TOM HANKS southern California. In 1994, Lawrence writer, have been active Clinton support- Tom Hanks, the actor, hosted a fund- was sworn in as ambassador to ers. In December 1992, Meehan hosted a raiser at the Century Plaza Hotel in West Switzerland and his wife as special womenÕs economic summit at their Los Angeles in 1995 that raised more envoy to the World Conservation Union house, and the 50 attendees drafted a than $1 million for Clinton. Hanks spent in Geneva, Switzerland. She resigned platform that they submitted to ClintonÕs the night in the White House after a from the post in November 1994. Larry pre-inaugural economic conference. screening of Apollo 13. The next morn- LawrenceÕs confirmation was held up in Goldberg insists that Hollywood has no ing, Hanks and Clinton had breakfast the Senate for more than two months influence over, or special access to, together before the President presented while Republican critics and the 11,000- Clinton: ÒWeÕre not there making health the Congressional Medal of Honor to member American Foreign Service care policy,Ó he told ABC NewsÕs James Lovell, the commander of the ill- Association questioned his credentials Nightline in May 1993. Earlier in the year, fated Apollo 13 mission, whom Hanks for the position, arguingthat heÕd been Goldberg and other celebrities met pri- portrayed in the movie. Later in the day, chosen only because he was a big vately with the President to discuss a in speeches at the National Press Club, Democratic contributor. President strategy for selling ClintonÕs health care Lovell and Hanks denounced plans to Clinton spent his first vacation in office reform plan. The Center was unable to cut NASAÕs budget. Hanks did not at the LawrencesÕ mansion in Coronado, contact Goldberg or Meehan. respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. California. Shelia Lawrence did not respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. BRIAN AND MYRA GREENSPUN BOB AND REBECCA HERNREICH Brian Greenspun is the editor and Bob and Rebecca Hernreich of Fort JAMES AND MARCIA LYONS president of the Las Vegas Sun. He was Smith, Arkansas, and Vail, Colorado, are James Lyons, a lawyer with the ClintonÕs college roommate. Greenspun longtime supporters of Clinton. Bob Denver-based firm of Rothgerber Appel

6 THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY Powers & Johnson, has been a longtime tribute to Medavoy at a 1992 motion pic- about David BrinkleyÕs on-air remarks confidant of . When the ture awards dinner. Medavoy did not about the Lincoln Bedroom, Peterson Whitewater deal surfaced as a potential respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. replied, ÒThatÕs the lousiest statement campaign issue in 1992, Clinton asked IÕve ever heard.Ó Peterson said that Lyons to write a report about the deal in H. MAURICE AND ELIZABETH MITCHELL should he be invited to spend a night in an effort to dampen the news mediaÕs H. Maurice Mitchell is a former law the Lincoln Bedroom again, he would interest in the subject. LyonsÕs report partner of Jim Guy Tucker, who resigned decline the offer because Òit is not that said that the Clintons had lost $59,000 as governor of Arkansas following his much fun.Ó The Lincoln Bedroom, he on the Whitewater venture. In October conviction on May 28, 1996, in a added, Òis not your uptown hotel 1993, Clinton named Lyons to be the Whitewater-related loan case. He was a room,Ó and because the bed is four feet U.S. Observer to the International Fund member of the Clinton-Gore Arkansas off the floor, Òyou have to jump to get for Ireland, an unpaid post that allows Finance Council in 1992 and is on the into bed.Ó Lyons to continue practicing law in Clinton-Gore National Finance Board for Denver. Lyons did not respond to the the 1996 re-election effort. In June 1995, WILLIAM AND CAROLYN RAINER CenterÕs inquiries. Mitchell was the chairman of a luncheon William Rainer, a co-founder of at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock that Greenwich Capital Markets, a bond- DAVID MATTER raised more than $1 million for ClintonÕs trading company, was one of ClintonÕs David Matter and Clinton were class- re-election effort. Mitchell did not key supporters on Wall Street during the mates at Georgetown University, where respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. 1992 campaign. After a lifetime of sup- Matter managed ClintonÕs unsuccessful porting Republicans, Rainer, a fellow 1968 campaign to be senior class presi- PETER AND EILEEN NORTON Arkansan, switched allegiance from dent. Matter is the chief operating officer Peter Norton, the successful comput- President Bush to Clinton because, he and president of Oxford Development er entrepreneur who created Norton told InvestorÕs Business Daily at the time, Company, a Pittsburgh-based real estate Utilities, is a big Democratic contributor. he had Ògreat confidence in ClintonÕs leasing company. He managed ClintonÕs Norton has retired from the computer leadership.Ó Rainer and his company 1992 campaign in western Pennsylvania industry and now devotes his time to each loaned the Clinton-Gore Inaugural and headed the primary campaign in his family and the Norton Family Committee $100,000. In 1994, Clinton 1996. The Center was unable to contact Foundation, a philanthropy that sup- appointed Rainer to be the chairman of Matter. ports cultural and humanitarian pro- the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, which jects. Eileen Norton is on the board of oversees the Energy DepartmentÕs pro- RICHARD AND JENNIFER MAYS the ChildrenÕs Defense Fund; Hillary curement of uranium. Rainer did not Richard Mays runs Mays Law Firm Rodham Clinton is a former director of respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1980, Clinton the organization. In June 1994, Mrs. appointed him to fill a vacancy on the Clinton visited the Nortons at their SKIP AND BILLIE RUTHERFORD Arkansas Supreme Court, and in 1991, home in Santa Monica, California. The Skip Rutherford is a paid Clinton Clinton appointed him to the state Center was unable to contact the campaign adviser with Cranford Ethics Commission. Mays was a key Nortons. Johnson Robinson Wood, a Little Rock- fund-raiser in ClintonÕs 1992 presidential based public relations firm that is work- campaign and organized an event Òfor MERLE AND DELORIS PETERSON ing on a number of campaign-related the black community in Washington, Merle Peterson is a former state sena- activities, including Whitewater damage D.C., that brought in more than tor from Arkansas whom Clinton control. In 1993, Rutherford was invited $500,000,Ó according to Arkansas appointed in 1985 to the Arkansas to a surprise costume party for Hillary Business. Mays did not respond to the Development and Finance Authority (he Rodham Clinton and was among a num- CenterÕs inquiries. retired in 1995). In 1992, he was a fund- ber of overnight guests that evening at raiser for a $100-a-seat event for Clinton. the White House, Rutherford told the MIKE MEDAVOY He has also contributed to ClintonÕs Center. Rutherford was an assistant Mike Medavoy, a Hollywood execu- Legal Expense Trust. In an interview, campaign manager of the 1992 Clinton- tive who left Tri-Star Pictures in 1994 to Peterson recounted telling Clinton that Gore campaign, chairman of the form his own production company, and Òall I wanted out of the campaign was Arkansas Democratic Party in 1989, and his former wife, Patricia Duff, were early dinner at the White House.Ó the vice president for public and govern- supporters of ClintonÕs 1992 presidential In November 1993, Peterson and his mental affairs at Arkla Inc. when campaign. Medavoy and Duff helped to wife were staying in a hotel in Thomas F. (Mack) McLarty, ClintonÕs introduce Clinton to Hollywood by host- Washington when a White House aide former chief of staff, was its chairman ing fund-raisers for him. Clinton was a called them and invited them to come to and chief executive officer. As a member guest at their Coldwater Canyon home the White House for dinner and to of the Clinton-Gore Arkansas Finance on one of his early trips to California as spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom, Council, Rutherford was instrumental in a presidential candidate. Clinton paid Peterson told the Center. When asked raising money for the 1992 campaign. In

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY 7 June 1995, Rutherford helped to coordi- and public relations firm based in MARY STEENBURGEN nate a fund-raiser that brought in more Austin, Texas, that has been a paid con- Mary Steenburgen, an actress, is a than $1 million for the Democrats. sultant to ClintonÕs advertising team. supporter and a longtime Clinton friend Spence met Clinton when they were from Arkansas. The Clintons and daugh- STANLEY AND BETTY SHEINBAUM working on George McGovernÕs 1972 ter Chelsea attended SteenburgenÕs 1995 Stanley Sheinbaum, an economist by presidential campaign. He helped to wedding to actor Ted Danson. training, is a liberal political activist and prepare Clinton for his speech to the Steenburgen did not respond to the prominent Democratic fund-raiser. He is 1992 Democratic National Convention CenterÕs inquiries. a former University of California regent and his 1995 State of the Union address. and president of the Los Angeles Police SpenceÕs adviceÑto stay focused on Òthe WARREN AND HARRIET STEPHENS Commission. Sheinbaum declined to be heart of the heartland and not the belt of Warren and Harriet Stephens are part interviewed for this project. the beltwayÓÑis well-known around the of one of the wealthiest families in the (Sheinbaum hosted a reception for White House, according to The Dallas United States. Warren Stephens is the the Center for Public Integrity on March Morning News. Spence made a loan of chief executive officer of Stephens Inc., 4, 1996, after a panel at UCLA.) less than $100,000 to the Clinton-Gore one of the nationÕs largest investment inaugural committee. He did not banking firms. Although the Stephens SIDNEY AND LORRAINE SHEINBERG respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. family primarily votes for and con- Sidney Sheinberg, a former president tributes to Republicans, it gave consider- of MCA Inc., is a co-founder of The STEVEN AND KATE CAPSHAW SPIELBERG able support to Clinton when he was Bubble Factory, a Los Angeles-based Steven Spielberg, a director, producer, governor and during his first presiden- motion-picture production company. and studio executive, and his wife, tial campaign. Some reports say that the Sheinberg is a longtime Democratic con- actress Kate Capshaw, have been key family and its employees contributed tributor. In 1996, he attended a gathering Democratic Party fund-raisers and con- more than $100,000 to ClintonÕs 1992 of Hollywood executives, who have col- tributors. In April 1995, they hosted a campaign. Stephens Inc. made a loan of lectively contributed millions of dollars fund-raiser with SpielbergÕs partners in more than $100,000 to the Clinton-Gore to the Democrats over the years, at David DreamWorks SKG, David Geffen and Inaugural Committee. GeffenÕs Malibu home, where Clinton Jeffrey Katzenberg, that raised $2 million Nonetheless, Warren Stephens told was the guest of honor. Sheinberg did not for the Democratic Party. After the fund- the Center that he would not support respond to the CenterÕs inquiries. raiser, Clinton spent the night at ClintonÕs re-election. As for his night in SpielbergÕs home in Pacific Palisades, the Lincoln Bedroom, in 1993, he said: W. MAURICE SMITH California. Spielberg did not respond to ÒIt was really specialÑa thrill. I donÕt W. Maurice Smith is the former chair- the CenterÕs inquiries. know exactly what gets you an invita- man of the Bank of Cherry Valley, a tiny tion. I donÕt know why I got invited, but institution in northeastern Arkansas that CHARLES AND BARBARA STACK it was a damn nice honor.Ó from 1983 to 1988 may have made more Charles Stack, a partner in the Coral than $400,000 in unsecured personal Gables (Florida)-based law firm of High, BARBRA STREISAND loans to then-Governor Clinton. These Stack, Lazenby, Palahach & del Amo, Barbra Streisand, the actress and loans surfaced during the Whitewater raised more than $7 million for ClintonÕs singer, is a staunch Clinton supporter. investigation because of allegations that 1992 presidential campaign, according to Streisand came out of semi-retirement as they were paid off by James and Susan the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1994, Stack a singer in 1986 by hosting and perform- McDougal, the ClintonsÕ partners in the hosted a dinner for the Democratic Party ing at a fund-raiser at her Malibu home Whitewater venture, and others who that raised $3.4 million. After Clinton to benefit the Hollywood WomenÕs may have received favors from the gov- became President, he nominated Stack to Political Committee, the Democratic ernor, according to the Christian Science a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Monitor. Smith was a top gubernatorial the 11th Circuit. But Republicans, led by Democratic candidates. The event raised aide to Clinton and the director of the Senator Robert Dole, now the GOP pres- $1.5 million. At another fund-raiser in State Highway Department during the idential nominee, opposed StackÕs con- September 1992, she sang a modified last five years of ClintonÕs governorship. firmation. Dole questioned StackÕs quali- version of ÒIt Had To Be You,Ó titled ÒIt In 1982, when Clinton was running for fications for the job, accusing Clinton of Has To Be You,Ó that was dedicated to governor, Smith helped him to raise $1 choosing him only because heÕd raised Clinton, according to the Seattle Times. million. Smith has also contributed to Òmillions and millions of dollarsÓ for the After a June 1996 fund-raiser at the ClintonÕs Legal Expense Trust. The 1992 campaign. On April 22, 1996, Dole home of Lew Wasserman, the former Center was unable to contact Smith. called on Clinton to withdraw the nomi- chairman of MCA Inc., Clinton invited nation. A little more than two weeks lat- Streisand and some others back to his ROY AND MARY COURI SPENCE er, Stack removed himself from consid- hotel, the Sheraton Miramar in Santa Roy Spence is the co-founder and eration. Stack did not respond to the Monica, to talk politics, according to president of GSD&M, an advertising CenterÕs inquiries. USA Today. Streisand has also con-

8 THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY This table includes contributions to ClintonÕs gubernatorial cam- paigns, contributions to his 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns (through June 1996), and hard and soft-money contributions to the The Guest List Democratic Party from 1992 through June 1996.

Contributions from Guest Contributions Contributions from Guest Company and GuestÕs Family from Company Company Employees

ARNOLD Truman Arnold Companies 24,750 135,950 2,750 ATCHLEY 5,120 BATCHELOR Dick Batchelor Management 3,750 4,335 BIRD Rose Law Firm 1,830 12,750 BRADBURY Worthen Bank 16,000 16,501 11,900 CARROLL Rose Law Firm 1,250 12,750 CHASE 55,250 CONWAY Hopkins and Sutter 3,900 2,100 COULSON Coulson Oil Company 16,950 10,000 DICKINSON McGeorge Contracting Company 7,200 250 DREYFUSS 3,850 DUFF 6,000 ELDRIDGE Eldridge & Eldridge 6,660 250 FRIEDMAN 2,420 GEFFEN DreamWorks SKG/Geffen Companies 389,000 39,000/10,000 GELLER Geller Geller & Garfinkel 1,635 250 GIFFIN Long Aldridge & Norman 1,250 5,950 GOLDBERG 60,750 GREENSPUN Greenspun Management 74,450 45,000 3,000 GROBMYER Arnold Grobmyer & Haley 2,000 3,000 GROSSMAN 437,240 HANKS 5,250 HERNREICH Sigma Properties 66,906 1,000 KUMPURIS 5,500 LAWRENCE Coronado Properties 8,780 75,500 15,000 LYONS Rothgerber Appel Powers & Johnson 6,750 2,200 MATTER Oxford Development Company 5,000 8,250 MAYS Mays & Crutcher 30,400 15,000 11,000 MEDAVOY Tri-Star Pictures 6,000 3,500 MITCHELL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 14,875 18,150 NORTON 350,750 PETERSON 16,375 RAINER Greenwich Capital Markets 46,000 8,000 22,000 RUTHERFORD Cranford Johnson Robinson Wood 1,750 7,750 SHEINBAUM 22,000 SHEINBERG MCA Inc. 267,150 74,500 59,150 SMITH 11,750 SPENCE GSD&M 25,250 6,000 SPIELBERG Amblin Entertainment/DreamWorks SKG 236,500 5,850/39,000 STACK High, Stack, Lazenby, Palahach & del Amo 7,300 2,000 STEENBURGEN 2,000 STEPHENS Stephens Inc. 24,000 21,000 18,250 STREISAND 81,500 THOMASES Willkie Farr and Gallagher 18,050 47,025 THOMASON 35,075 WALTON Llama Company/Wal-Mart 216,800 10,000 200/1,900 WASSERMAN MCA Inc. 459,273 74,750 59,150 WHILLOCK Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Corporation 5,708 10,000 1,000

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY 9 tributed to ClintonÕs Legal Expense were the first non-family members to LEW AND EDIE WASSERMAN Trust. Streisand did not respond to the spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom Lew Wasserman, the former chair- CenterÕs inquiries. after Clinton became President. The man of MCA Inc., an entertainment con- (The Streisand Foundation has given Thomasons co-chaired ClintonÕs inau- glomerate, has raised more than $1 mil- a grant to the Center.) gural committee, and they had Òspecial lion for the Democrats over the years. accessÓ passes to the White House until (See above.) SUSAN THOMASES press scrutiny ended the practice in Susan Thomases, a partner in the 1994. On April 25, 1996, Harry CARL AND MARGARET WHILLOCK -based law firm of Willkie ThomasonÕs lawyer said that the Justice Carl Whillock, a former state legisla- Farr and Gallagher, is one of Hillary Department had dropped its investiga- tor and former president and chief exec- Rodham ClintonÕs oldest friends and has tion of the role played by Thomason in utive officer of the Arkansas Electric been one of her closest advisers. the White House travel office matter. Cooperatives Corporation, was a vice Thomases was to have run the Clinton The pair produced ÒThe Man From president of the University of Arkansas reelection effort in New York, but anoth- Hope,Ó a documentary about Clinton, at Fayetteville when Clinton was a law er prominent lawyer has filled that posi- for the 1992 Democratic National professor there. As David Maraniss tion. Thomases had a Òspecial accessÓ Convention. They are working on a doc- describes it in his book, First In His pass to the White House until press umentary sequel for the 1996 convention Class, when Clinton decided to run for scrutiny ended the practice in 1994. in Chicago, according to the Sacramento Congress in 1974, Whillock was the first Employees of Willkie Farr and Bee. In 1993, the Thomasons invited the person he told. Whillock proceeded to GallagherÕs gave a total of nearly Clintons to vacation in their leased go through a file of names to put $50,000 to ClintonÕs 1992 presidential oceanfront estate in Summerland, Clinton in touch with Òkey contacts all campaign, according to The Buying of the California. The Center was unable to across the Third Congressional District,Ó President, and Thomases and a colleague contact the Thomasons. Maraniss wrote. After Clinton was elect- at the law firm each gave $1,000 to ed governor, he appointed Whillock to ClintonÕs Legal Expense Trust. Thomases ALICE WALTON AND JOHN AND CHRISTY WALTON be the chairman of his State Tax Reform has testified before the Senate Banking Alice Walton and her brother John are Commission. Whillock told the Center Committee concerning the Whitewater part of the $23 billion Walton empire, for Public Integrity that he and his wife affair. Thomases did not respond to the based in Arkansas, that includes Wal- stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom but CenterÕs inquiries. Mart, a chain of discount stores. Alice havenÕt contributed very much money Walton, the president of Llama to the Democratic Party or to Clinton. HARRY THOMASON AND Company, a brokerage firm, and one of ÒWe are old friends of the Clintons,Ó he LINDA BLOODWORTH-THOMASON the wealthiest women in the United said. ÒIt was just awesome. When you Harry Thomason and Linda States, held a major fund-raiser for walk in [to the Lincoln Bedroom], you Bloodworth-Thomason, both television Clinton in New York City a week before see the Gettysburg Address. Did you producers, introduced Clinton to the stateÕs presidential primary in 1992. know that they signed the Emancipation wealthy contributors in Hollywood in John Walton has also raised money for Proclamation in there?Ó the 1992 presidential campaign. The Clinton. Alice Walton did not respond to Thomasons are both from Arkansas and the CenterÕs inquiries. The Center was Christopher Adasiewicz and Meredith are close friends of the Clintons. They unable to contact John Walton. Milton contributed to this story.

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