August 1, 1994 - Part 9
August 1, 1994 - Part 9
(23:28:12) Hearing resumes: Senator SARBANEs. Ms. Hanson, are you ready to resume? I think Senator Gramm said be had a couple more questions he wanted to put, and then I think he will have concluded. Ms. HANSON. If I could, before Senator Gramm begins, I would like to make clear, for the record, this March 2, 1994, letter. This letter, to my knowledge, was-and to my state of recollection-, was correct, was accurate at the time that it was written.. The paragraph says, "When Senator Bond asked me, at that hearing, whether an other communications had taken place between the RTC the White House, my response was not to my knowledge." I and still have no knowledge that any such discussions occurred, and that was correct. That is correct, to my knowledge. The CHAIRMAN. Wait a second. Let me just stop you there, because this goes right to this dilemma of you being two people at once. I mean, you're the Treasury Counsel, but you're carrying this RTC load at the behest of Mr. Altman. He detailed you to do RTC activities, so when you go over to the White House, you don't go over as 100 percent of Treasury and 0 percent of the RTC. You go over as a mixture of both, so when the point is made that there's no RTC contact, that, then, makes a reference to you in a context that's not accurate. Do you see the point? Ms. HANSON. I understand that point, sir, but this goes on to say, "But I have learned, today, of two conversations which did take place between Treasury staff and White House personnel on this matter." That was intended to answer Senator Bond's question of how the White House was notified of the referral, so, whether I was there in an RTC capacity or a Treasury capacity, that question was answered, and was intended to be answered, in this letter. As I've stated, it was not the intention of this letter, and I didn't understand this letter, to be trying to be a full description of every conversation that had taken place, which was the question that had to be answered asked by Senator Gramm. That's not what this letter was intended to do, but it was accurate, to my knowledge and to my state of recollection, when it was written.