August 4, 1994 - Part 3
August 4, 1994 - Part 3
(12:00:37) Ms. WILLIAMS. Senator Campbell, may I add to that Mr. McLarty generally, as a way of dealing with situations where there is a lot of press interest, will put together White House response teams. This was not an unusual method of working, getting people together. Senator CAMPBELL. That is a normal process and you have done it before? MS. WILLIAMS. On different issues, yes. Senator CAMPBELL. On different things, OK. Mr. McLarty, you apparently ordered your staff, i.e., Mr. Podesta to work with the Treasury people to prepare Roger Altman for the February 24th Senate hearing. The newspapers, at least one account I read, indicated that you did not want them to concentrate solely on Whitewater. Was there anything to that? Mr. MCLARTY. We wanted the hearings to cover the scope that this Committee felt was proper, There was a lot going on and we did not think it was proper for the hearings to be based on a very narrow issue and that to dominate the hearings. The RTC was performing quite well in their activities. This was" to be a regularly scheduled hearing and we wanted it, to be a broad, 321 and full hearing, and not a forum for (12:01:53)(tape #10088 ends)