Campaign Economics - Page A1
February 27, 1997 Harold Ickes Big Surprise!
by Staff Investigative Journalists, The Daily RepublicanRelated Document:
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WASHINGTON DESK - Harold M. Ickes was deputy chief of staff when president Clinton was in the midst of his fund-raising debacle. But Ickes, didn't learn of his dismissal from Clintons staff until he read it in the Washinbgton Post.
The New York lawyer had his own surprise for Clinton and his former White House colleagues yesterday.
Without telling any of them, he took a trove of sensitive political documents when he left his job last month.
When Ickes turned over about half of these documents at the request of congressional investigators--he has more than a thousand pages still in hand--he sought no permission, according to the White House.
Instead, the de facto manager of Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign simply informed the White House what papers he was turning over and gave Clinton aides the chance to briefly review copies.
The documents, made public Tuesday, depict Clinton as intimately familiar with a plan crafted by his political aides to shower personal attention on large financial contributors.
In an interview Wednesday, Ickes described himself as a "pack rat" and said that he saw nothing remarkable about the fact he chose to keep some of his political records.
Ickes said because the documents were campaign-related, not governmental, he was entitled under the Presidential Records Act to treat them as his property.