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  Byron York on Roger Clinton on National Review Online
Clinton advised that the president is aware of the invitations in general, but may not know each time he takes a trip.
Clinton stated that when he receives an invitation to visit a country he is often offered money by the country to make the trip.
In addition, Clinton told the FBI that he had traveled to South Korea six times as the personal guest of President Kim Dae Jung and was paid as much as $200,000 for performing on a trip.
www.nationalreview.com /york/york032002.shtml   (1712 words)

  
  Bill Clinton - MSN Encarta
Bill Clinton, born in 1946, 42nd president of the United States (1993-2001), who was one of the most popular American presidents of the 20th century and the second president to be impeached (see Impeachment).
Clinton was the first president born after World War II (1939-1945) and the third youngest person to become president, after Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
In his second term, Clinton became the second president to be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, after admitting to an improper relationship with a White House intern.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564341/Clinton_Bill.html   (942 words)

  
  Bill Clinton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clinton grew up in a traditional, albeit blended, family; however, according to Clinton, his stepfather was a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused Clinton's mother and sometimes Clinton's half-brother Roger, Jr.
Clinton also battled Congress nearly every session on the federal budget, in an attempt to secure spending on education, government entitlements, the environment, and AmeriCorps–the national service program that was passed by the Democratic Congress in the early days of the Clinton administration.
Clinton had vetoed similar measures in the past, but he agreed to the restrictions when faced with the prospect that the United States would lose its vote in the UN General Assembly for nonpayment of dues.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Clinton   (10905 words)

  
 Roger Clinton's Dogged Effort For Drug Trafficker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clinton's home in Redondo Beach, Calif., to ask him about his relationship with Rosario Gambino, who prosecutors have repeatedly said is an associate of the Gambino crime family and a distant relative of Carlo Gambino, the late crime boss.
Clinton, the half-brother of the former president, acknowledged that he had lobbied the United States Parole Commission for the early release of Rosario Gambino, according to the bureau's account of the interview.
Stover's notes say that he informed Roger Clinton that he was not permitted to meet with a commissioner on a specific case and urged him to submit his views in writing.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v01.n1565.a08.html   (2003 words)

  
 CNN - Roger Clinton to play concert in North Korea - November 25, 1999
Roger Clinton and his band were invited to play in a concert in Pyongyang that will include artists from South Korea and North Korea.
Clinton administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Roger Clinton did not tell the White House of his plans to participate in the concert.
The official said Roger Clinton would not be "taking a message from the president." He added that the visit should be viewed as that of a private citizen trying to promote a cultural exchange.
www.cnn.com /US/9911/25/roger.clinton.nkorea/index.html   (579 words)

  
 USA-Presidents.Info - Bill Clinton
Clinton's role in promoting this prosperity is a matter of considerable debate: some substantial credit can be apportioned to groups such as the Congress and Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, whom Clinton renominated, as well as the congruence of technological and global economic conditions which had little to do with Clinton.
Clinton detractors from all parts of the political spectrum often refer to him as "Klinton", respelling his name with a K to evoke German orthography, placing him in the same class as the Nazis, concealing that Clinton was a democrat and a friend of modern Germany with its anti-Nazi education.
Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury and obstruction of justice, becoming the first elected U.S. President to be impeached (and the second ever, the previous one being Andrew Johnson).
www.usa-presidents.info /clinton.htm   (3252 words)

  
 William J. Clinton
Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on Aug. 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark., a small town near the Texas-Oklahoma border.
Clinton returned to Arkansas to teach at the University of Arkansas School of Law, while Rodham went briefly to Washington, where she worked for the House staff during the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
Clinton was elected Arkansas attorney general in 1976, then went on to win the governorship in 1978.
www.course-notes.org /biographies/williamjclinton.htm   (728 words)

  
 Biography of William J. Clinton
After the failure in his second year of a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring "the era of big government is over." He sought legislation to upgrade education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules.
Clinton was graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University.
Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/bc42.html   (607 words)

  
 Biography of the President
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas.
Roger received a higher paying job as a service manager for his brother's car dealer-ship and Virginia was able to find a better job as a nurse anesthetist.
Bill Clinton recognized that although college would be expensive, it would give him the education he needed to accomplish his goals.
clinton4.nara.gov /WH/EOP/OP/html/Hope.html   (1569 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Roger Clinton, Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, Roger Clinton often had problems with alcoholism and sometimes abused his wife, who eventually left him but then returned to him.
According to Bill Clinton's autobiography, Roger expressed sorrow for his alcoholism and abusive behavior before he died.
Roger and Virginia had a son, Roger Clinton, Jr.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Roger-Clinton%2C-Sr.   (320 words)

  
 >Clinton Issues Pardons
Clinton's last official acts were his half-brother, Roger, who pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine in Arkansas, and Patricia Hearst Shaw, the heiress who robbed a bank in 1974 after being kidnapped by a small band of political radicals that called itself the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Clinton today included the former Arizona governor Fife Symington, a Republican, who was convicted in 1997 on six of counts of bank and wire fraud.
Clinton, who was barraged with pardon requests in recent weeks, left more than a thousand petitions pending for the new president.
www.jonathanpollard.org /2001/012101e.htm   (1442 words)

  
 New York Press - TAKI -
Roger the Dodger should not reach for his slippers–the feds should reach for the handcuffs.
Roger Clinton led the Gambino family to think the fix was in.
Roger Clinton probably thought it was–after all, he knew his brother–but he also was counting on the fact that even the Mafia does not murder an ex-president’s younger brother.
www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=4704   (939 words)

  
 New Questions About Roger Clinton's Slippery Schemes - TIME
Now Roger is sweating under the hot lights as questions pile up about whether he had a role in an outrageous array of slippery and ill-fated schemes ranging from Mafioso pardons to Chinese scooter imports to Venezuelan coal mines.
To protect Clinton from discovery of the payment and assure it remained tax free, the sources said, Lundy suggested to Clinton in November, 1999 that Lundy would transfer the stock to a mutual friend, Dan R. Lasater, a Little Rock financier who was convicted in the mid-1980s for buying drugs from Roger Clinton.
Roger Clinton's lawyer, Bart Williams, said that his client "has never received any money in connection with a pardon request," though he has received funds from people who have separately asked such favors.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,165992,00.html   (1093 words)

  
 Roger Clinton, Using President, Helped Gambino Crime Family
Seeking a forbidden meeting with a commission official from Arkansas, Roger Clinton told the man's secretary in a phone call that he had a "very important" matter to discuss and that his "brother recommended meeting," the official according to the woman's notes, the New York Times reported this weekend.
When Clinton sought to meet with Gaines, Stover told him that he was not permitted to meet with a commissioner on a specific case and urged him to submit his views in writing.
Clinton is reportedly undergoing rehabilitation for cocaine addiction at the $675-a-day Cottonwood de Tucson rehab center, which he entered on July 19 for a 28-day stay, according to the National Enquirer.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/8/25/222425.shtml   (936 words)

  
 CNN.com - Roger Clinton now target of pardon probe - February 22, 2001
Julia Payne, an aide to former President Clinton, acknowledged to CNN that Roger Clinton once made a personal appeal for clemency by handing his half-brother a list of "about five or six" friends and acquaintances, and asking the president to consider them.
Payne said it was the first time Roger Clinton had asked his half-brother for such consideration, and she rejected reports he had done so in the past.
Roger Clinton was charged Wednesday with driving while intoxicated and disorderly conduct after an incident last weekend in Hermosa Beach, California.
archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/02/22/burton.rich.02   (623 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Reports: Roger Clinton pardon flap grows   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The investigation into Roger Clinton's role in seeking presidential pardons has deepened, with reports that two people were solicited to pay large sums of money in return for his help in their pardon cases.
Roger Clinton told The New York Times through a spokeswoman Friday that though he knew the two men, he had never authorized either one to use his name.
Roger Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton's two brothers have been embroiled in controversy over their efforts to obtain pardons for friends and clients from President Clinton.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2001-03-10-rogerclinton.htm   (377 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Bill Clinton
It was in Clinton's first term that a special prosecutor named Kenneth Starr, a conservative Republican, was named to investigate a land deal in Arkansas that allegedly involved both Bill and Hilary Clinton.
Clinton began his second term with a victory, an agreement with Congress that promised a balanced budget by 2002.
Clinton was walking more than six kilometres a day before he had the procedure and was considered to be in good health.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/clinton/index.html   (1082 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Roger Clinton faces DUI charges   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clinton failed a balance and coordination test and was taken to the city jail for a breath test, police said.
Clinton served more than a year in prison after pleading guilty in 1985 to a charge of conspiracy to distribute a single gram of cocaine.
In his 1995 book, "Growing Up Clinton," Roger Clinton recounted his troubled life, including the physical abuse that he, his brother and late mother suffered at the hands of their alcoholic father, as well as his own addictions to liquor and cocaine.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2001-02-18-rogerclinton.htm   (380 words)

  
 Transcript: Larry King Live Interview With Roger Clinton - Aug. 28, 1998
Roger Clinton, talks about the Lewinsky scandal and how the first family is dealing with it.
CLINTON: First off, it's easy for me to look at it in a positive way, not in a way that I'm condoning anything that he did, you understand, but in a positive way -- as most people, and should be able to, and that is from a human standpoint.
The Clintons preach family values, what about Chelsea and the legacy that she will have to live with, like the Kennedy kids, they have to live with their dad's legacy for the rest of their lives.
robots.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/28/lkl.transcript   (7257 words)

  
 Roger & Rosario: Clinton, that is. And Gambino, that is National Review - Find Articles
The caller was President Clinton's brother, Roger, and he wanted to ask that a man named Rosario Gambino, an organized-crime figure serving 45 years in federal prison for heroin smuggling, be granted parole.
As Clinton recalled in an interview with the FBI, he was in a nightclub in Beverly Hills when a man named Pasquale -- Clinton didn't remember his last name but knew he was the manager for an old rock singer named Gino Vannelli -- said he wanted Clinton to meet someone.
Clinton said he sympathized with Rosario's plight because he had once been in prison himself and knew what it was like.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_8_54/ai_84943303   (717 words)

  
 Bill Clinton's Hometown Homepage
Bill Clinton credits the outstanding teachers of the Hot Springs schools with having an important influence on his life, and many of them have been ardent campaigners in his behalf as his political star was rising.
Clinton as being responsible for the early educational experiences that led him to a career in the public service first as Arkansas Attorney General, then Governor of Arkansas and now, President of the United States.
Clinton and his family for instilling in him many of the values and experiences that have made him a world leader.
www.hotspringsar.com /info/clinton   (1467 words)

  
 CNN.com - Roger Clinton now target of pardon probe - February 22, 2001
Julia Payne, an aide to former President Clinton, acknowledged to CNN that Roger Clinton once made a personal appeal for clemency by handing his half-brother a list of "about five or six" friends and acquaintances, and asking the president to consider them.
Payne said it was the first time Roger Clinton had asked his half-brother for such consideration, and she rejected reports he had done so in the past.
Roger Clinton was charged Wednesday with driving while intoxicated and disorderly conduct after an incident last weekend in Hermosa Beach, California.
www.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/02/22/burton.rich.02   (617 words)

  
 JS Online: Report: Roger Clinton Investigated
Roger Clinton's lobbying efforts are part of congressional and federal investigations into last-minute pardons and commutations by President Clinton, who issued 177 of them his last day in office.
Clinton told the FBI agents in the 1999 interview that he felt a bond with the younger Gambino.
Clinton said the two men were introduced at a club in Beverly Hills, Calif., by an acquaintance in the music business and that he identified with Tommy Gambino's struggle to get through life without a father while being judged by his family name.
www.jsonline.com /news/nat/ap/aug01/ap-clinton-pardons082501.asp   (491 words)

  
 CNN.com - Roger Clinton makes reckless driving plea - August 8, 2001
Clinton, who is the half-brother of former President Bill Clinton, could have faced a maximum 270 days in prison on those charges.
Roger Clinton was one of 140 people pardoned by his brother in the last days of the Clinton presidency.
The younger Clinton had been convicted of a cocaine drug charge in Arkansas in 1985, while his brother was the state's governor.
edition.cnn.com /2001/LAW/08/07/roger.clinton/index.html   (355 words)

  
 The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library - Bill Clinton's favorite books and other stuff
Although Bill Clinton was a draft-dodger, and did not serve in the military as did former presidents George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Harry Truman, he loved to play Army Guy.
Later, Clinton would visit Vietnam during his final legacy-building dash to become the first President to do something other than be remembered only for having run around the oval office with his pants down around his ankles for 8 years.
Clinton was a deeply religious pervert, and often turned to the Clergy for spiritual guidance.
www.middlebury.net /clinton   (1264 words)

  
 ROGER CLINTON: FOLLOWING THE MONEY
Roger was not at the meeting, but Lincecum told investigators that at one point Cayce pointed to a man on a balcony and hinted that it was Roger.
To protect Clinton from discovery of the payment and assure it remained tax free, the sources said, Lundy suggested to Clinton in November, 1999 that Lundy would transfer the stock to a mutual friend, Dan R. Lasater, a Little Rock financier who was convicted in the mid-1980s for buying drugs from Roger Clinton.
Roger Clinton's lawyer, Bart Williams, said that his client "has never received any money in connection with a pardon request," though he has received funds from people who have separately asked such favors.
www.papillonsartpalace.com /roger.htm   (2442 words)

  
 Roger Clinton
Clinton will be joined by considered to be teenage pop stars from South Korea along with North Korean performers, according to the Seoul-based promoter Korecom" (Washington Post, November 27, 1999).
"Roger Clinton went to court Tuesday to deal with a civil suit alleging that his dog bit Jeffrey Klempan, who was walking a leashed Rottweiler in front of the First Brother's home in Redondo Beach, Calif, in May 1997"(Now You Know..., The Washington Post, November 19, 1998).
"Roger Clinton, brother of the former president, was granted a pardon for a 1985 drug conviction [by Bill Clinton]" (Peter Slevin, The Washington Post, February 8, 2001).
george.loper.org /rogue/performers/roger/roger.html   (739 words)

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