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REP. LIVINGSTON YEARNS FOR JOB AS CORPORATE LOBBYIST
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(CNNS, 12/26/98) -- It was widely reported last month that
then-selected Speaker of the House, Robert Livingston, was
reluctant to accept the position. Mainstream news outlets
reported that Livingston had been planning to retire from
Congress altogether and seek work as a highly-paid corporate
lobbyist. But in November, Livingston acceded instead to
Republican Party wishes and agreed to serve as Speaker.
Now that Mr. Livingston has suddenly made a U-turn, turning down
the job of Speaker and saying he will be retiring from Congress,
it is presumed he will, as heretofore planned, seek work in the
corporate sector as a lobbyist.
Livingston's dramatic U-turn seemed, on the surface, to be a
"noble reaction," a "falling on his sword" moment of high drama.
Following revelations that Livingston had had extra-marital
affairs, congressman Livingston astutely played the situation for
all it was worth. In a brilliant performance, acted out before
his congressional peers and the U.S. public, Livingston "nobly"
announced he would not after all serve as House Speaker and would
even be quitting his job as congressman. Called upon to follow
Livingston's "fine example" of resigning from office was U.S.
President Bill Clinton.
Obviously, Bill Clinton is not the only liar in Washington, DC.
The plot thickened with an announcement by Larry Flynt, publisher
of Hustler magazine, in which the purveyor of porn vehemently
denied having anything to do with revelations of Livingston's
marital infidelities. In a Reuters wire service story, Hustler's
executive editor Alan MacDonell is quoted as follows: "The leak
did not come from us." ("Hustler Denies 'Outing' Livingston
Infidelities"; Reuters, 12/18/98)
Thus, contrary to what is being ingrained into the public
consciousness, the dirt on Livingston neither came from Larry
Flynt nor from Hustler magazine.
So where =did= the Livingston sex info originate?
Speculation is rampant. The most obvious source for the
Livingston leaks would be the White House and/or private
detectives employed by the White House. But according to Sherman
Skolnick, the dirt on Livingston was first leaked by Cokie
Roberts, a reporter who works for the ABC network.
Cokie Roberts is the daughter of the late congressman Hale Boggs.
Mr. Boggs grew critical of the Warren Commission report which
tried to cement the "lone assassin" theory of the John F. Kennedy
assassination into the public mind. (A thinly-veiled Boggs is
portrayed in Oliver Stone's movie, "JFK". In the movie,
Louisiana District Attorney Jim Garrison has a brief conversation
with a Washington, DC politico, in which the politico voices his
private opinion on the Warren Commission report: "That dog won't
hunt," he says.) Congressman Boggs died in a suspicious plane
crash shortly after he became publicly critical of the Warren
Commission report. The notion that Cokie Roberts has been
rewarded for her silence regarding the suspicious circumstances
is not far-fetched. Nor is the notion that Cokie Roberts has
herself become a deep-level player in the political game
far-fetched.
According to Mr. Skolnick, a widely-respected, veteran
investigator into U.S. government "deep politics", Ms. Roberts, a
Louisiana native, worked conjointly with Louisiana-based oil
interests to circumvent the looming Speakership of Robert
Livingston. Livingston, says Skolnick, is himself a native of
Louisiana and is viewed unfavorably, by some, in the mileau of
Louisiana politics.
The true story behind Bob Livingston's *dramata persona* of
"honorable politician doing the right thing" is developing. Of
interest will be who Mr. Livingston's next employer turns out to
be. The bottom line is that politics and politicians are rarely
what they seem.
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