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Both Sides Deny Bubba Office Deal Falling Apart
By DAVE SALTONSTALL
New York Daily News
Staff Writer
Bill Clinton's plan to move his office to the 56th floor of the
posh Carnegie Hall Tower in Manhattan remains under discussion �
despite published reports to the contrary.
Both sides in the discussion denied a front-page report in The
New York Post yesterday that Clinton's office plan was "falling
to the ground" after a meeting Friday between the General
Services Administration and Clinton's representatives.
In fact, there was no meeting Friday between the federal agency
and the former President's advisers, and no decisions have been
reached about Citizen Bill's future office, representatives said.
"There was no meeting yesterday, period," said Clinton
spokeswoman Julia Payne. "The negotiations are still ongoing."
And a spokeswoman for Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.), who has been
leading efforts in Congress to scale back Clinton's office plans,
also said there was no meeting and that efforts to reach a
compromise continued.
"I talked to the Post several times [Friday] and basically told
them that we didn't know anything," Istook spokeswoman Micah
Swafford said of the story, which relied on a single unnamed
source "close to the Clinton camp."
Clinton still hopes to sign a $790,000 annual lease on the
8,300-square-foot space with drop-dead views of Manhattan. He
has offered to have his foundation pay as much as $300,000 of
those costs annually, Payne said.
Istook would like to see Clinton kick in something closer to
$500,000, thereby bringing Clinton's rent into line with what
other former Presidents receive. The office rent of former
President Ronald Reagan, for instance, is expected to rise to
$357,000 next year.
General Services has sole authority over negotiating the lease
with Clinton, although Istook leads a subcommittee that oversees
the agency. Talks are expected to resume sometime this week.
Original Publication Date: 2/11/01
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