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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 89
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE HELICOPTER GOLFER
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David Watkins was fired from his high-level White House job by
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Bill Clinton who was shocked -- shocked -- that Watkins had used
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a helicopter assigned to the White House to go golfing. The
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January 1997 American Spectator gives the big picture of what
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seems to have really happened.
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According to the article by Rebecca Borders ("Hell to Pay"),
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Watkins, a boyhood chum of Bill Clinton, helped work a special
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financial deal during the future-President's 1992 campaign.
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Watkins allegedly set up a scheme with World Wide Travel of
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Little Rock whereby the travel agency billed journalists
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traveling with the Clinton entourage *in* *advance*, the money
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was then funneled to the Clinton campaign, and World Wide agreed
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to not request payment until after the election.
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Early in the Clinton presidency, Watkins says, he was stuck with
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the job of firing Billy Dale and other White House Travel Office
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personnel. Says Watkins: "Hillary [Clinton] wanted the Travel
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Office guys fired, so there was no question that I had to act
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upon her wishes."
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The firing of the Travel Office employees resulted in scandal,
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and Watkins appeared set up to play the role of fall guy. Under
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pressure, he seems to have broken the code of *omerta* -- silence
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-- when he testified that Hillary had "urged the action be taken
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to get 'our people' into the Travel Office." (Hinted at is that
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"our people" may have been campaign-funders World Wide Travel
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and/or associates.)
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In what looks like revenge for fingering Hillary, about a month
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after his testimony Watkins' White House office was relocated to
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the Old Executive Office Building. It is almost certain that the
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Clinton gang next leaked damaging information on Watkins to the
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Wall Street Journal, which information was then printed on page
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one.
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The punishment for Watkins' breaking ranks had its *coup de
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grace* with the helicopter golfing episode. Watkins says he was
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only scouting territory for Clinton as a means to lure him to
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Camp David. Supposedly, there was a morale problem at Camp David
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because President Clinton rarely went there. Watkins' objective
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reportedly was to find a way to bait Clinton and reel him in to
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Camp David, with good golfing being the bait.
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After the helicopter golfer story made big news, Clinton phoned
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Watkins to ask his side of things. Watkins says he asked to meet
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personally with the President to tell his side of the story.
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Clinton reportedly agreed to meet after an imminent press
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conference, but then *during* that press conference stuck it to
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Watkins when he surprisingly announced that Watkins had resigned.
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At that point there was no turning back. But lucky for Watkins,
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worse than that didn't happen to him, as it has to others who get
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on the wrong side of the yuppie President.
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