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Bush tight-lipped on Enron chief Lay's death: White House
WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush once reportedly called him "Kenny Boy," but the White House had few kind words for former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay on his death. Spokesman Tony Snow would not say how Bush reacted to the passing of Lay, 64, who died while awaiting...
Ukrainians hope to return life to regionnews in briefDeathsToday in
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - The concrete and steel sarcophagus hastily built to entomb reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant is crumbling and dotted with holes. Birds have found their way inside, and radiation has escaped. The $1.1 billion project to replace the sarcophagus remains on the drawing...
Bush has no contact with Enron's Lay: White House
WASHINGTON AFP ? US President George W. Bush no longer maintains contact with former Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay, who was indicted on multiple counts of fraud White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. Asked about the last time the two had been in contact, McClellan said: "It's been quite...
White House for sale.(V. Democracy)(Bush's political fund raising)
CONSIDER THE STORY of George W. Bush and Enron. Coming into the 2000 presidential campaign, Ken Lay and Bush were old family friends who had gotten to know each other in Texas, where Bush was governor and Lay operated a natural gas trading outfit whose...
Poindexter embarrassment, presidential candidates and Islam
At press time, the White House had received 9,000 faxes complaining about Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness snooper program at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, whose Website has dropped that kooky logo with the Orwellian slogan and the All-Seeing Eye of the Illuminati. * Michelle...
Congressional access to information: using legislative will and leverage.
Presidents and their advisers cite various legal principles when they withhold documents from Congress and refuse to allow executive officials to testify before congressional committees. Congress can marshal its own impressive list of legal citations to defend legislative access to information, even when presidents assert executive...
Busted trust
Washington jumps on the reform train, and waves goodbye to cozy CEO relations-for now. "If we have done anything wrong," J.P. Morgan famously told Theodore Roosevelt during a tense confrontation at the White House in February 1902, "send your man to my man and they can fix...
Busted trust - Capitol Ideas - corporate reform, Washington D.C
If we have done anything wrong," J.P. Morgan famously told Theodore Roosevelt during a tense confrontation at the White House in February 1902, "send your man to my man and they can fix it up." None of the CEOs who have streamed into Washington in recent months, hoping to...
THE IoS PROFILE: Dick Cheney - The running mate has stumbled. But
He is the man forever associated with the "Secure Undisclosed Location" - the eminence grise of the administration, who, in the wake of 11 September, was whisked from secret hideaway to secret hideaway to foil the designs of al-Qa'ida, ready to take over if anything happened to the President. As...
Bush Readies `Strict' Rules for Business.
By Bob Kemper, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--WASHINGTON--As President Bush considers tougher penalties for corporate executives caught in financial wrongdoing, business leaders fear that a major threat to their fiscal well-being may be the man they helped put in the Oval...
The `gate-less community: in any other administration, Bush's scandal-plagued Army secretary would be history. But the rules have changed
ONE WEDNESDAY MORNING IN LATE May, Army Secretary Thomas White arrived late at his ornate Pentagon office, the strain of a breakfast meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff still visible in his face. Not quite one year into the job, he was suffering through one of the rockiest tenures...
Enron Metastasizes.(investigating the California energy crisis)(Brief Article)
"Death Star," "Get Shorty," "Fat Boy"--the revelation of Enron's trading schemes in California have turned the Enron scandals virulent again. Just when the White House thought the disease was in remission and relegated to the business pages, the California scams exposed more of a still-metastasizing cancer...
The Week - political briefs - News Briefs
-- In a recent interview, Vermont senator James Jeffords mentioned that ththe Senate Democrats joined in singing "Consider Yourself at Home," from Oliver!, when he joined their caucus. In the musical, didn't that song welcome Oliver into a gang of pickpockets? -- For $150, Republican donors can get three...
White House Yields Enron Data with Senate-Approved Strings.
By Julie Mason, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Julie Mason, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
White House Requests Confidentiality Agreement before Enron Files Are Released.
By Julie Mason, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 4--WASHINGTON--The White House on Monday was seeking a confidentiality agreement before releasing to Senate investigators 1,745 pages of documents detailing its communications with Enron Corp. The documents were compiled...
White House Allows Senate Panel Access to Enron-Related Documents.
By Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
He's been hiding behind sky-high ratings since September 11, but
THERE were suggestions in some quarters last week that politics in America have returned to normal. This is rather like saying that the Earth has returned to being flat, and a clear invitation to deploy the old joke about the US and Britain being to cultures divided by a common...
White House to Cede Enron-Related Papers.
By David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
White House Aides Weighed Enron End.
By Patrice Hill, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Patrice Hill, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
White House Releases Contact Data after Receiving Subpoenas over Enron.
By Eric Herman, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Eric Herman, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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