Daily Republican Editorial Archives February 25, 1997
Who Slept At The White House?
by Staff Investigative Journalists, Daily Republican NewspaperRelated Document:
- It Was Clinton's Excellent Lincoln Bedroom Idea!
WASHINGTON DESK - President Clinton, who denied soliciting contributions for his re-election campaign, proposed 'overnights' for donations of $50,000 and $100,000 for wealthy Democrats, documents in the president's own handwriting reveal. Internal White House memoranda released Tuesday show president Clinton was deeply involved in planning a Clinton-Gore Campaign fund-raising drive by government officials that sold access and a night's stray in the Lincoln Bedroom to major political donors.
A January 1995 memorandum in the prsident's handwriting proposed dates for breakfast, lunch or coffee with Clinton for major political backers. Clinton scrawled the following in the margins: 'Yes, pursue all 3 and promptly - and get other names at 100,000 or 50,000 or more...Ready to start overnights right away...'
Attorney General, Janet Reno is expected to order a thorough investigation of Clinton's role in the debacle.
The following is a list of 831 political donors the president and first lady have been forced to admit were given sleeping privileges in the White House Lincoln Bedroom since 1995, in exchange for political donations to the Clinton-Gore Campaign.
These names were reluctantly released Tuesday by the Clinton administration after Congressional investigators subpoened the list in January. The names on the computer generated list are grouped as follows: Arkansas friends, longtime friends, friends and supporters, public officials and dignitaries, and arts and letters.
The White House did not provide the names of 35 Clinton relatives and their guests and 72 friends of the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea, who also slept there.
Arkansas Friends (370)
Diane Alderson, Edwin Alderson, Ben Allen, Ben Allen Jr., Bill Allen, Anita Arnold, Carol Arnold, Kay Kelly Arnold, Judge Richard Arnold, Truman Arnold, Liza Ashley, Hazel Askew, Mauria Aspell, Dr. Robert Aspell, Jerome Atchley, Stephanie Atchley, Richard Atkinson, Barbara Baldwin, Karen Ballard, Don Barnes, Marynm Bassett, William Bassett, Woodson Bassett, Ginger Beebe, Kyle Beebe, Mike Beebe, Clarence Bell, Hope Bell, Joe Bell, Stewart Bell, Dr. Joe Bennett, Mary Jean Bennett, Allen Bird, Sherry Bird, Arden Blair, Diane Blair, Heather Blair, James Blair Jr.
Jim Blair, Sister Margaret Blandford, Jerry Bookout, Loretta Bookout, Martin Borchert, Rosemary Borchert, Constance Bowen, William Bowen, Charlotte Bradbury, Curtis Bradbury, Anne Bradford, Jay Bradford, Sarah Jane Bradshaw, Stanley Bradshaw, Richard Bronfman, Sheila Bronfman, Chris Burrow, Mary Chris Burrow, Dr. Bettie Caldwell, Bess Campbell, Craig Campbell, Craig Campbell Jr., Elizabeth Campbell, Guy Campbell, Mary Ann Campbell, Susan Campbell, Diane Carroll, Phillip Carroll, Weldon Chesser, Janice Choate, Barbara Clark, Ken Clark, L.W. Clark, Margaret Clark, William Clark, Stuart Cobb, Bonnie Cone, James Cone, Bill Conrad, Rosemary Conrad, Glenda Cooper, Dawn Correnti, John Correnti, Beth Coulsen, Mike Coulsen, Rose Crane, Frances Cranford, Wayne Cranford, Harry Criner, Patty Criner, Dr. Lou Santa Cruz, Susan Santa Cruz, Cathy Cunningham, Ernest Cunninham, Dennis Daniel, Roxanne Daniel, Fred Davidson, June Davidson, Wilma DeFoggi, Dr. Dillard Denson, Martha Jane Dickey, Carrie Dickinson, Tyndall Dickinson, Christopher Dixon, Lynda Dixon, Martha Dixon, Bob Dolman, Harryette Dorchester, Madalyn Dortch, David Eldridge, Margaret Eldridge, John Elrod
Connie Fails, Lucille Fannin, Jimmie Lou Fisher, Dr. Robert Fiser, Susan Fleming, Victor Fleming, David Folsom, Judy Folsom, Bo Forney, Kay Fowler, Effie Frazier, George Frazier, Michelle Fritts, Glo Futrell, Woody Futrell, Elaine Geschwind, Mac Geschwind, Linda Gillespie, Dean Morton Gitelman, Alla Gladden, Robert Gladden, Ashley Glover, Margaret Gail Goodrum, Randy Goodrum, Linda Grimes, Libby Grobmyer, Mark Grobmyer Jr., Dr. Brian Harbour, Jan Harbour, L. Michael Hardgrave, Luther Hardir, Mary Hardin, Joan Hargraves, Robert Hargraves, Chris Harrell, Ann Henry, Dr. Morris Henry, Debbie Herget, Dick Herget, Rebecca Hernreich, Robert Hernreich, Ann Hill.
Richard Hill, Kaki Hockersmith, David Hodges, Marian Hodges, Bobby Houe, Frankie Hogue, Bernice Holt, Beth Holtz, Louis Holtz, Clifton Hoofman, Lois Hopper, Bobby Hopper, Ashley Horne, Becky Horne, Holly Horne, Truett Horne, Wendy Horne, Pastor Rex Horne, Carolyn Hubbell, Kelly Hubbell, Susie Hubbell, Webb Hubbell, Mary Sue Jacobs, Madalyn Johnson, Ken Johnson, David Johnson, Murray Johnson, Hilary Jones, Myra Jones, Eleanor Karam, James Karam, Willie Kueker, Dr. Frank Kumpuris, Kula Kumpuris, Dr. Kemal Kutait, Virginia Kutait, Deborah Lee.
Joe Lee, David Leopoulos Jr., Linda Leopoulos, Nicholas Leopoulos, Thaddeus Leopoulos, Thea Leopoulos, Rabbi Eugene Levy Jr., Patricia Lile, Babbie Lovett, Rev. James Lumpkin, Jean Lumpkin, Charles Lyford, Kate Lyford, Nell Lyford, Robert Lyford, Diane Lyons, Betty Magie, Cone Magie, Bettie Ann Mahoney, Jodie Mahony, Michael Mahony, Doug Martin, Eddie Martin, Kimberly Martin, Mahlon Martin, Melinda Martin, Myrna Martin, David Matthews, Jerry Maulden, Lauren Maulden, Sarah Maulden, Sue Maulden, Jennifer Mays, Richard Mays, James McClelland, Patricia McClelland, Charlie McDowell, Lily McDowell.
Shirley McFarlin, Hayden McIlroy, Mary Joe McIlroy, Michelle McIlroy, Marcia McIvor, Robert McNeice, Mary Mehlburger, Max Mehlburger, Jean Miles, Jim Miles, JoAnn Miles, Rev. John Miles, Kelli Miles, Curtistine Miller, Elizabeth Mitchell, Maurice Mitchell, Ark Monroe, Nancy Monroe, Beadle Moore, Blanche Moore, Dorothy Moore, Rudy Moore, B.J. Moses, Charles Brett Myers, Doug Myers, Amanda Newman, Amy Newman, Francine Newman, Joe Newman, Frances Nixon, Dr. Victor Nixon, Willie Oates, Cheryl Park, Delores Peterson, Merle Peterson, Frances Phelan, Dr. James Phelan.
James Levi Phillips, Geneva Pledger, James Pledger, Joseph Purvis Purvis, Susan Purvis, Ellen Reaves, Graham Reaves, Hilary Reaves, Keith Reaves, Mary Jo Nelson Rogers, J.T. Rose, Nannice Rose, Nola Royster, Barbara Anne Rudolph, Billie Rutherford, Skip Rutherford, Deborah Sale, Mary Ann Salmon, Carolyn Schauflee, Louie Schauflee, Marty Schauflee, Michael Schauflee, Charlotte Schexnayder, Melvin Schexnayder, Mary Schroeder, Robert Schroeder, Dr. Joanna Seibert, Lottie Shackleford, Erin Shockley, Leslie Singer, Noah Singer, Donald Sjostrand, Rev. Gerald Keith Sjostrand, Janice Sjostrand, JoAnne Sjostrand, Helen Sloan, John Sloan.
Gary Smith, Jane Smith, Jennifer Smith, Mark Smith, Maurice Smith, Nathan Smith, Rebecca Smith, Reece Smith, Sarah Smith, Steve Smith, Nan Snow, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Annette Stacy, Bob Stacy, Jake Stacy, Sam Stacy, Carolyn Staley, Nell Steenburgen, Mary Steenburgen, Harriet Stephens, Warren Stephens, Amy Stewart, Theodore Striggles, Dorothy Stuck, Dr. James Suen, Karen Suen, Eddie Sutton, Patsy Sutton, Gladden Tappin, Henry Thomas, Marti Thomas, Danny Thomason, Harry Thomason, Linda Bloodworth Thomason, Rick Thone, Robert Turner, Patricia Upton, Richard Upton.
Joan Vehik, Alice Walton, Christy Walton, Helen Walton, John Walton, Martha Whetstone, Carl Whillock, Margaret Whillock, Susie Whitacre, Caroline Whitson, Heather Whitson, Turner Whitson, Donna Axum Whitworth, J. Bryan Whitworth, Bernice Williams, Lee Williams, Olen Williams, Victoria Williams, Juanita Woodard, Larry Woodard, Judge Henry Woods, Kathleen Woods, Bill Worthen, Kathy Worthen, Betsey Wright, Buddy Young, Chase Young, Clayton Young, Rebecca Young, Patricia Youngdahl, Sara Youngdahl.
Longtime Friends (155)
Linda Aaker, Robert Armstrong, Amy Ashby, Kit Ashby, Norma Asnes, Joseph Baczko, Kathleen Baczko, Dr. Nancy Bekavac, Kathie Berlin, Shannon Bettridge, Tommy Bettridge, William Bettridge, Robert Billingsley, Patsy Henderson Bowles, Jeff Braden, Paul Braden, Taylor Branch, Dr. Johanna Branson, Eli Broad, Vanessa Brown, Jane Bulnes-Fowles, Juan Bulnes-Fowles, Kathleen Burgess, Ciara Campbell, Jude Campbell, Thomas Campbell, Marvin Caplan, Thomas Caplan, Michael Conway, Dr. Yvonne Cormier, Bill Daley, Loretta Daley, Denise Dangremond, Robert Dangremond, Benjamin Eakeley, Douglas Eakeley, Priscilla Eakeley.
Betsy Ebeling, Colin Ebeling, Thomas Ebeling, Rosemary Estes, Robert Farmer, Adele Fath, Creekmore Fath, Ann Fisher, Jerome Fisher, Pam Fleischaker, Bishop Louis Ford, Jinnet Fowles, Linda Fuller, Millard Fuller, Amanda Gill, Jock Gill, Rosemary Gill, Sophie Gill, Barbara Glicken, Howard Glicken, Ruth Goldway, Susan Graber, Dr. Billy Graham, Ruth Graham, Maria Grauso-Kuttner, Brian Greenspun, Myra Greenspun, Barbara Grossman, Steven Grossman, Laura Handman, Cheryl Acton Harbour, Laurel Heiden, Sherry Heiden, Harold Ickes, Ben Ifshin, Chole Ifshin, David Ifshin, Gail Ifshin, Jake Ifshin.
Grace Ellen Johnson, H. Alston Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Mason Johnson, Roslyn Johnson, Ryan Johnson, Susanne Johnson, Tanner Johnson, Claiborne Jones, Donald Jones, Karen Jones, Robert Trent Jones Jr., John Kluge, M. Larry Lawrence, Shelia Lawrence, Melissa Ludtke, James Lyons, Marcia Lyons, Rev. Anthony Mangun, Michael Ann Mangun, Dr. Ann Markusen, David Markusen-Weiss, Vicki Marti, David Matter, Dorothy McAuliffe, Terry McAuliffe, James Moore, Jane Moore, Judith Price Osgood, Charles Palmer, Andrew Paschall, Doug Paschall, Rachel Paschall, Rosemary Paschall, Patricia Podlich, William Podlich, Shirley Price.
Carolyn Rainer, William Rainer, Audre Rapoport, Bernard Rapoport, Ernest Ricketts, Kate Ricketts, Renee Ring, Lyn Hecht Schaffran, Kimberly Schreter, Molly Shanley, Constance Shapiro, Stuart Shapiro, Derek Shearer, Lloyd Shearer, Marva Shearer, Betty Sheinbaum, Stanley Sheinbaum, Jenny Simpson, Ashley Spence, Courtney Spence, Mary Couri Spence, Roy Spence, Shay Spence, Bill Staton, Carolyn Ellis Staton, Patty Stearns, Rick Stearns, Rev. Charles Stith, Deborah Prothrow Stith, Mary Alyce Stradling, Mike Driver Stradling, Susan Thomases, Michael Turpen, Susan Turpen, Richard Valeriani, Amy Verrett, Edith Wasserman, Lewis Wasserman, Mark Weiner, Susan Weiner, William Worsley, Paul Zofnass.
Friends and Supporters (111)
Leonard Barrack, Lynne Barrack, Andrea Batchelor, Dick Batchelor, Erskine Bowles, Joan Brandt, William Brandt, Shirley Brown, Janet Burkle, John Burkle, Ronald Burkle, Rev. Anthony Campolo, Margaret Campolo, Bernie Cantor, Iris Cantor, John Catsimatides, Margo Catsimatides, Gertrude Cejas, Paul Cejas, Catherine Chapman, Max Chapman, John Connelly, Quincy Daniel, Sean Daniel, Joseph Dawson, Melba Dawson, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Beth Dozoretz, Ron Dozoretz, Daniel Dutko, Nancy Ellison, Debra Farar, Joel Farar, Sym Farar, Gary Fine, Alex Friedman, Richard Friedman.
Frieda Furman, Roy Furman, John Garamendi, Patti Garamendi, Joe Geller, Charles Gervais, Felicia Gervais, Marie Gray, Dorothea Green, Steven Green, Fred Hochberg, Ruth Hunter, Minister William Hybels, Lee Iaccoca, Ghada Irani, Dr. Ray Irani, Janice Johnson, Rita Jackson, Roger Johnson, Laurene Jobs, Steven Jobs, Deborah Jospin, Clayton Kaeiser, Selma Kaye, Walter Kaye, Cynthia Leesfield, Ira Leesfield, Kathleen Leonard, Tom Leonard, Alan Leventhal, Carol Leventhal, Carl Lindner, Leni May, Peter May, Norma Mills, Olan Mills, Paul Montrone, Sandra Montrone.
Dr. Dean Ornish, Alan Patricof, Susan Patricof, Gene Prescott, Morris Pynoos, Rita Pynoos, William Rollnick, Bruce Ratner, Julie Ratner, Steven Rattner, Lewis Rudin, Rachel Rudin, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Edwin Schlossberg, Dr. Robert Schuller, Carol Shields, Stanley Shuman, Sydney Shuman, Donna Siegel, Fred Siegel, Alan Solomont, Susan Solomont, Carl Spielvogel, Barbara Stack, Bud Stack, Maria Titleman, William Titleman, Angelo Tsakopoulos, Sofia Tsakopoulos, Lillian Vernon, Bill Wardlaw, Kim Wardlaw, Maureen White, Audrey Wirginis, Hugh Westbrook, Dirk Ziff.
Public Officials and Dignitaries (128)
Mayor Jerry Abrahmson, Madeline Abramson, Trond Andersen, Mayor Dennis Archer, Gov. Evan Bayh, Mrs. Evan Bayh, B.A. Bentsen, Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, Cynthia Blumenthal, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Chloe Breyer, Dr. Joanna Breyer, Nell Breyer, Justice Stephen Breyer, Gov. John Y. Brown, Mayor Willie Brown, President George Bush, Mayor Bill Campbell, Sharon Campbell, Diana Carlin, Gov. John Carlin, Jean Carnahan, Gov. Mel Carnahan, Martha Carper, Gov. Thomas Carper, Gov. Gaston Caperton, President Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter, Gov. Ben Cayetano, Gov. Lawton Chiles, Rhea Chiles, Maggie Daley, Mayor Richard Daley, Clifton Daniel, Margaret Truman Daniel, Lt. Gov. Gray Davis, Susan Davis.
Gov. Howard Dean, Judith Dean, Attorney General Larry Echohawk, Terry Echohawk, Linda Edmisten, Secretary of State Rufus Edmisten, Attorney General Lee Fisher, Peggy Zone Fisher, Janet Fitzgerald, State Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald, Representative Geraldine Ferraro, Mayor Sandra Freedman, Phyllis George, Frances Anne Glendening, Gov. Parris Glendening, King Harald of Norway, Queen Sonja of Norway, Mary James, Mayor Sharpe James, Elizabeth Jones, Gov. Brereton Jones, State Senator Daryl Jones, Mayor Frank Jordan, Wendy Jordan, Alice King, Gov. Bruce King, Gov. John Kitzhaber, Sharon Kitzhaber, Sussan Knowles, Gov. Tony Knowles, Dorothy Lamm, Gov. Richard Lamm, Congresswoman Blanche Lambert Lincoln, Dr. Steve Lincoln, Mary Lowry, Gov. Michael Lowry, Roderic Lyne.
Prime Minister John Major, Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, Judith Mauro, Commissioner Edward McNamara, Lucille McNamara, Gov. Ned McWherter, Angela Menino, Mayor Thomas Menino, Gov. Robert Miller, Shirley Miller, Gov. Zell Miller, Gov. Benjamin Nelson, Diane Nelson, State Treasurer Bill Nelson, Billy Nelson, Grace Nelson, Nan Ellen Nelson, Donna Nigh, Gov. George Nigh, Lt. Gov. Frank O'Bannon, Judy O'Bannon, Judi Patton, Gov. Paul Patton, Dalia Rabin Philosoph, Leah Rabin, Yuval Rabin Jr., Mayor Ed Rendell, Judge Midge Rendell, Mayor Norman Rice Jr., Gov. Ann Richards, Ann Riley, Edward Riley, Mayor Joe Riley, Secretary Richard Riley, Ted Riley Jr., Mayor Richard Riordan, Bea Romer, Gov. Roy Romer.
Mayor Kurt Schmoke, Dr. Patricia Schmoke, Gov. George Sinner, Jane Sinner, Bodil Slyngstad, Jane Sullivan, Gov. Michael Sullivan, Gov. John Waihee, Lynne Waihee, Gov. David Walters, Rhonda Walters, Mayor Wellington Webb, Wilma Webb, Gov. Bill Winter, Elise Winter, Ambassador Andrew Young.
Arts and Letters (67)
Merv Adelson, Thea Adelson, Donna Ballman, Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson, Kathleen Battle, Alan Bergman, Candice Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Jessica Capshaw, Kate Capshaw, Chevy Chase, Jani Chase, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Judy Collins, Ted Danson, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Patricia Duff, Barbara Fineman, Jane Fonda, John Gaubatz, Kathy Gaubatz, David Geffen, Jake Glaser, Paul Glaser, Gary Goldberg, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Goodwin, John Guare, Lynda Guber, Peter Guber, Tom Hanks, Dr. Jean Houston, Dixie Jewison, Norman Jewison, Rick Kaplan, Priscilla Kaplan, Christine Lahti.
Sherry Lansing, Esther P. Lederer, Chloe Malle, Mike Medavoy, Leslie Moonves, Nancy Moonves, James Naughton, Pam Naughton, Eileen Norton, Peter Norton, Sharyn Richardson, Charles Roven, Denise Roy, Becky Saletan, Thomas Schlamme, Wilson Schlamme, Lorraine Sheinberg, Sidney Sheinberg, Diane Simon, Neil Simon, Stephen Spielberg, Dawn Steele, Barbra Streisand, Rose Styron, Elizabeth Tilberis, Ted Turner, Ben Wesley, Rita Wilson, Marianne Williamson.