To: Bill who wrote (7451 ) 10/6/1998 1:23:00 PM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 67261
$1.8 Million Spent in Magazine's Anti-Clinton Project, but on What? search.nytimes.com Thought you would enjoy this little comic book snippet, Bill. I have to apologize for getting the impartial, judicious Mr. Scaife's name wrong, it's Richard.. . . Scaife, a fourth-generation heir to the Mellon family banking fortune, has given many millions of dollars to the conservative legal and political foundations that have challenged the Clinton administration almost since the day Clinton took office. Scaife apparently was not impressed enough with the output of the Arkansas Project to renew the grants from two of the foundations he controls, the Carthage Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation. Negotiations to continue the grant ended abruptly in the fall of 1997, when Scaife declared that the magazine would would never get another cent from him, editors recalled. His anger was aroused when The Spectator ran a review critical of a book by Christopher Ruddy that asserted there was overwhelming evidence that deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was murdered. Scaife, who declined to be interviewed, has had an intense interest in promoting the idea that Foster did not die by his own hand, the conclusion drawn in three official investigations. You and your non-partisan, objective friends ought to look into this Ruddy book. I'm sure it's chock-a-block with the kind of facts and substance you like. If the wholly impartial American Spectator gave it a critical review, it must have been some piece of work. Maybe it would give Dwight further documentation on the "Clinton is Caligula" front too.