THE WHITE HOUSE

FIRST LADY SPEECHWRITER: HELLO, YOU MUST BE GOING

JOE HOLLEY and his family were all set to move to Washington, where the Texas journalist was to begin work on Sept. 2 as a $90,000 a year speechwriter for FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON. Instead, the day before the movers were to arrive, the White House said never mind. Holley says that what derailed the offer was the White House's realization that he had been named in a sexual discrimination and harassment suit in 1989, while he was the editorial-page editor at the then San Diego Tribune. He maintains that he alerted the First Lady's staff to the suit but didn't...

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