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�CLINTON LIBRARY PHOTOCOPY.
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Heather Hurlburt
PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS IN MEMORY OF CASEY SHEARER
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
May 25,2000
Derek, Ruth, Anthony, Julie, family and friends; the Brown University community; there
isn't much Hillary and I can add to all your wonderful tributes to Casey. But I would like to say
how much it means to us both, as parents and friends, and how grateful we are for all of you who
have come to be with Casey's family and to honor his life.
I remember Casey as a baby, crawling around the Arkansas governor's mansion the year
I was first elected governor. I remember him and Anthony challenging Derek and me at
basketball when he was 14. The old guys won- but it was close. When I ran for President in
1992, I remember Casey trying to tutor me in rap music so I wouldn't embarrass myself on
national television. And just a few years ago, I remember getting the benefit of his play-by-play
skills at a Baltimore Orioles game.
Most of all, I remember the joy of his mom and dad as they watched their loving little
boy grow into an outstanding young man.
We've heard that Casey was a loyal, devoted friend; a thoughtful student and hard
worker; a young man with a great sense .of humor, and an equally great sense of integrity. I
know he got those values from his family; and I know that for a parent, there can be no greater
source of pride.
Casey was a joy not just for his family, but for everyone he knew. And he did seem to
know everybody. He went out of his way to get to know people, and to remember them; he
reached out to people who were different from him. And he understood that everyone mattered.
At Brown and in every part of his life, Casey gave back to others as much as he got from
them. He was proud of his parents, proud of what his mother did for Santa Monica, proud to be
friends with his dad. And he let everyone know it. He was the best friend anyone could hope to
have- and very possibly the best fan the Brown women's hockey team will ever have. He was
the voice ofBrown at more than 100 hockey and basketball games- and he had every intention
of sharing his broadcasting talents with sports fans everywhere.
Look around you. In every face here today you will see a little piece of the person Casey
was. And in every story, we begin to have a picture of what his life meant- of what one life
well-lived, however short, can do to lift all those around him.
We have lost a son, a brother, a fiancee, a friend; and the world has lost an extraordinary
young man. Let us today resolve never to lose all the things that Casey was- all the goodness
and cheer and wit that made the world a better place because he was in it.
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next to me in the broadcast booth in case I had any problems. Hopefully,
it's going to happen. It's something I know I will cherish."
The day will come when Hearn leaves for good. But he has set no
timetable.
"Ifl didn't enjoy it thoroughly, I'd stop," he said. "But I love what I'm
doing, so there's no thought of doing anything else~ It's been a marvelous
career, and I've worked very hard at it. To be able to be with a great
organization like the Lakers through all the years has been more than I
could have ever asked." Along the way, the memories have piled up."
"The first eight times they went to the championship round against
Boston, they lost every one," he said. "They had Baylor and West and
Ray Felix, and so forth and so on, but Boston was always so great in the
'60s. And the big difference was Bill Russell."
"The Lakers finally got it done against the New York Knicks in 1971-72
when they had that incredible streak of 33 [wins] in a row. People ask me
whichofthe six championships that I've been involved with would I say
was the most exciting, and I say that one because of all the failures in the
'60s."
"Then .of course there was the baby sky hook by Magic at Boston Garden
[in 1985]. That was the first time the Celtics ever lost a seven-game
series on their own floor, so that was unbelievable."
"And Magic's rookie game in 1980, the sixth game in Philly. Kareem was
out with a sprained ankle and Magic having that incomparable 42 points
and 15 rebounds and seven assists. That was something."
"There are just so many memories. I've been so lucky. Practically every·
team the Lakers ever had had one superstar or more, and many
near-superstars. Baylor and West were the first two, and, my God, what a
combination they were. Since then you've had Wilt and Kareem and
Magic and now Shaq. And all those near-superstars like Gail Goodrich
and Jamaal Wilkes and James Worthy and you could go on and on." "It
makes your job a lot easier, a lot more interesting, a lot more rewarding
when you're working with guys that are going down ih history as some of
the greatest to ever play the game."
When Hearn reaches into his memory, it's like listening to a highlight
tape. During this particular conversation, he heated up. .
"One of the best games I ever broadcast was in Philadelphia, of all
places," he said. "There were only about 4,000 people in the gym. Wilt
was the center for Philadelphia, and the Lakers got behind 15-0 to start
the game. All of a sudden they got going, and ultimately it went three
overtimes and the Lakers won the game."
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As a parent, and as a human being, that is the only thing I really want to say to you.
Dylan Thomas put it very simply: "Though lovers be lost, love shall not; and death shall have no
cl01'ninion."
Through all your grief and your mouming and your detennination to go forward with
your lives, if you keep Casey's memory alive, death has no dominion.
ff you reach out to people who are not like you; if you keep laughter in your life and meet
obstacles with courage; and if above all you never stop trying to leave the world a little better
than you found it, Casey's life has real meaning. We will see it reflected in what those of you
who graduate on Monday choose to do with your lives. Through our tears, we will have Casey
with us always. And death shall have no dominion.
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degree
ID President Clinton is
reported to be considering
arrending a rnemodal in
Providence for the student,
whose fmher is a former u _$_
ambassador and whose mother
is on a federal cornmission.
Derek She<.~rar was a senior policy
adviser to Mr. Ointon t;iurlng the
1992 presidential campaign a)1.d
helped to Wiite the campaign's economic /rogram. Mr. Clinton
appointe him deputy u.ndersec~
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affair.> in 1993 ~nd to the amb<~ss-a.dQrShlp a year latec-. He is currlil/'lt·
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PROVIDENCE - Brown University student Casey Shi!;;~rer. the son
of Derek N. Shearer, the former U$.
amb:ilSsador to Finland, and Ruth
Goldway, a forma( mayor of Santa
Monica Calif., died early yesterclay,
sev"'-'"al 'days after c:otlapslng during
a pickup basketball game and only
day.sr befora he w"'.s to graduate
magna cum. laude,
.
Shearer, 21, an avid athlete and
budding spol.'iscaster, was playing
full-court fivc-oo-five basketball at
Brown's 'athletic. complex friday
wilh friends, including Matthew
Stroup, a senior from Atlanta. Ju:ot
as the game ended, Shearer col·
l;apsed on the court, Strol.lp said.
A medi~;:al student who had been
WElitlng to play performed CPR on
Shearer until Brown emergency
medical technicians arrived and took
him to Rhode lsland Hospital.
Browu reported that Shearer bad
suffered heart problems, but did not
know tht: exact cau.se ot death.
Shearer's ps.rents are long-time
fdends of President Clinton. A Clinton S\)Okesman sald Y"'.sterday, the
president is considering traveling to
Providence for a memorial 5eP~\ce
romorrow at 4 p.m. at Sayles Hall,
<~ fellow at the
Woodrow Wilson
International
Scholars Center in
Washington.
Ruth Gold,way is
a member of the
U.S. Postal Rare
Commission. She
SHEARtH~
was mayor of
Santa Monica from 1979 to 1983.
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Brooke Shearer Is a U.S. Depart·
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Rodham CUnton. She Is ma.rrled t9
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of state,
Casey Shearer, the youngest ot
three children, majored In economIcs at Rrown, and was inducted into
Brown's economics honor society.
His passions were sports broadcasting and writing. He broadcast basketball and ba.'j;eball games for
Brown Student Radio and wrote a
weekly sports colUmn for the College Hill Inclepende.nt a weekly published jointly by Brown and r:he
Rhode Islant1 School of De-Sign.
He inteme<l at ESPN last summer
and had bEil~n sending out tapes to
mlnor le~e baseball teams, hoping
. to \and hs.s first full-rime broadcast~ng job. He was also a big Los Angeles L.akers fan. and ma.n~ of his
friends plan to wear ribbons of purple and gold, the taam's colors. on
their ~owns at l¥~dl,lation Monday.
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BY D. MORGAN McVXCA.R
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l?el·haps Casey Shearer's endl.lring legacy will be fue.t he touched so
many peoplii! and affected their lives,
his hiends and father sai£1. On T1.1esd11.y night, some 80 Brown stud.ents
came to the hospital to say their
good-byes.
''It w~ Wlbelievable how many
friends the guy ·had.'' Srroup sa~d.
"He \VaS ~raorclil)ilrily popular. He
really seemed to love life and just
seemed to know ev€ryone.''
Derek Sh~rer said yesterday that
for his son, "':Eve.r:y single day he was
at Brown was a wonderful day. We
don't have aey regrets about r.his
boy, even tho~gh it's the saddest
thing that can happen to a parent.
"');{e probably affected more people's lives in four year.> thaiJ most
people do in a lifetime_ He met the
love of his life here, the woman b.e
was going to matry, Alyson Grant.
"Be never ha.d ~ bad day.''
Casey'S f;3.ther said. "He Cl;ltne out of
the womb smiling. I:Ie always said to
me, 'Pad, I've got (t under control.'.
''At the waiti.rlg room at the hospi·
Cal, his basr friends came in and sa.r
with him. Two friends sat <md played
a song on their guit~r. The :kids
wanted to do a celebration.
"The way to convert this loss into
someching else is we dedicate some·
thing to him - we become better
people," Perek Shearer said. "Ruth
and I feelluc~ to have had him."
Sn·~ila
£. Blumstein. Brown's
interim presid~nt, said that "th!}
campus community was shocked
and deeply saddened by the death of
Casey Shea,r<l:t today. Casey
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stl-ldent,
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a passion3te
sportswriter and
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"His death sa close to commencementis doubly tragic. Our hearts go
out to his parents, family, fiancee
and to his close friends in the g:radua~irlg
dass."
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Casey Shearer was a high school student in Finland when he applied to Brown. He had
moved there with his fan1ily when his father was named ambassador, and he :finished his
last two years of high school in Helsinki.
His two gtei:l.t passions at Brown were economics and sports journalism. He excelled in
his studies of economics and earned his bachelor's degree magna cum laude. As a sports
journalist, he wrote frequently for rhe College Hill Independent and was the voice of
Brow~ sports for the University's student radio station (WBSR). He:: was a passionate a,(ld
devoted fa.n of the Los Angeles La.kers.
"He was a student that everyone noticed simply on the basis of his academic brilliance,''
said Pravin Krishna, assistant professor of economics. "He kept a low profile in class but
was one of the top students."
Two years ~go, the student management ofWBSR began presenting the Danje)
Oppenheim Lifetime Achievement Award to a graduating senior. Casey received this
year's award at WBSR' s station meeting early this month. Casey was instrumental in
helping WBSR return consistently to the air four years ago. His particular contribution
was doing play-by-play at hockey and basketball games. He.cUd mote than 100 games,
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Student dies days before getting degree
President Clinton is reported to be considering attending a memorial in
Providence for the student, whose father is a former U.S. ambassador and
whose mother is on a federal commission.
By D. MORGAN McVICAR
Journal Education Writer
PROVIDENCE-- Brown University student Casey Shearer, the son of Derek N.
Shearer, the former U.S. ambassador to Finland, and Ruth Goldway, a former
mayor of Santa Monica, Calif., died early yesterday, several days after
collapsing during a pickup basketball game and only days before he was to
graduate magna cum laude.
Shearer, 21, an avid athlete and budding sportscaster, was playing
full-court, five-on-five basketball at Brown's athletic complex Friday with
friends, including Matthew Stroup, a senior from Atlanta. Just as the game
ended, Shearer collapsed on the court, Stroup said.
A medical student who had been waiting to play performed CPR on Shearer
until Brown emergency medical technicians arrived and took him to Rhode
Island Hospital.
Brown reported that Shearer had suffered heart problems, but did not know
the exact cause of death.
Shearer's parents are long-time friends of President Clinton. A Clinton
spokesman said yesterday the president is considering traveling to
Providence for a memorial service tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Sayles Hall.
Derek Shearer was a senior policy adviser to Mr. Clinton during the 1992
presidential campaign and helped to write the campaign's economic program.
Mr. Clinton appointed him deputy undersecretary of commerce for economic
affairs in 1993 and to the ambassadorship a year later. He is currently a
fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Scholars Center in Washington.
Ruth Goldway is a member of the U.S. Postal Rate Commission. She was mayor
�of Santa Monica from 1979 to 1983.
Ambassador Shearer's sister Brooke Shearer is a U.S. Department of the
Interior senior adviser, and previously worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She is married to Strobe Talbott, the deputy secretary of state.
Casey Shearer, the youngest of three children, majored in economics at
Brown, and was inducted into Brown's economics honor society. His passions
were sports broadcasting and writing. He broadcast basketball and baseball
games for Brown Student Radio and wrote a weekly sports column for the
College Hill Independent, a weekly published jointly by Brown and the Rhode
Island School of Design.
He interned at ESPN last summer and had begun sending out tapes to minor
league baseball teams, hoping to land his first full-time broadcasting job.
He was also a big Los Angeles Lakers fan, and many of his friends plan to
wear ribbons of purple and gold, the team's colors, on their gowns at
graduation Monday.
Perhaps Casey Shearer's enduring legacy will be that he touched so many
people and affected their lives, his friends and father said. On Tuesday
night, some 80 Brown students came to the hospital to say their good-byes.
"It was unbelievable how many friends the guy had," Stroup said. "He was
extraordinarily popular. He really seemed to love life and just seemed to
know everyone."
· Derek Shearer said yesterday that for his son, "Every single day he was at
Brown was a wonderful day. We don't have any regrets about this boy, even
though it's the saddest thing that can happen to a parent.
"He probably affected more people's lives in four years than most people do
in a lifetime. He met the love of his life here, the woman he was going to
marry, Alyson Grant.
"He never had a bad day," Casey's father said. "He came out of the womb
smiling. He always said to me, 'Dad, I've got it under control.'
"At the waiting room at the hospital, his best friends came in and sat with
him. Two friends sat and played a song on their guitar. The kids wanted to
do a celebration.
"The way to convert this loss into something else is we dedicate something
to him --we become better people," Derek Shearer said. "Ruth and I feel
lucky to have had him.''
Sheila E. Blumstein, Brown's interim president, said that "the campus
community was shocked and deeply saddened by the death of Casey Shearer
today. Casey was an excellent student, a passionate sports fan, a prolific
sportswriter and broadcaster, a great friend to many.
"His death so close to commencement is doubly tragic. Our hearts go out to
his parents; family, fiance and to his close friends in the graduating
class."
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People, November 16, 1992
Copyright 1992 Time Inc.
People
November 16, 1992
SECTION: ON THE MOVE; Pg. 83
LENGTH: 1755 words
HEADLINE: HERE COMES THE CLINTON CROWD!;
Bill's excellent adventure leads a whole new set of insiders to Washington
BYLINE: J.D. PODOLSKY with reporting from bureaus
BODY:
Nature abhors a vacuum. So does politics. Thus when Bill Clinton moves into 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, he will bring with him a coterie of confidants and influential advisers to fill the slots -- both
official and unofficial -- vacated by the minions of George Bush. The new insiders range from wife
Hillary's feminist friends to thirtysomething young lions such as media consultant Mandy Grunwald to
Clinton buddies like adviser AI From, influential leader of moderate Democrats. Others include
hometown FOBs -- "friends of Bill" -- Diane Blair, 54, a political-science professor at the University of
Arkansas and author of Arkansas Politics and Government: Do the People Rule? and her husband,
Jim, 57, general counsel to the poultry giant Tyson Foods. Below is a starting lineup for a new round
of inside-the-beltway networking.
THE KITCHEN CABINET
Bruce Lindsey, 44, is the President-elect's alter ego. The buttoned-down, low-key Arkansas lawyer
traveled at the Governor's elbow from start to finish during the campaign; oftentimes he and Clinton
would unwind with aides in a game of hearts. "He's the more aggressive player," says Lindsey. "Bill
likes to shoot the moon. I'm more conservative." As Clinton's most trusted adviser (after Hillary) and
possible White House legal counsel, Lindsey, known as the Enforcer, will continue to play the role of
cautious guide. He and wife Bev, 43, who helped tutor Clinton for the debates, are one of a handful of
couples invited to the Clintons' small annual Christmas parties. "In a presidential campaign, a
candidate gets a lot of new friends quickly," says Lindsey, who has known Clinton since 1968. "It's
nice for him to have someone around who he's known over the years and who didn't show up on his
front doorstep yesterday."
When Clinton wants economic advice, he will most likely call on Derek Shearer, 45, who with his
sister Brooke (see below) may form the most powerful sibling duo in the new Washington, D.C. His
sister introduced Shearer, then a freelance journalist traveling in Europe, to Clinton 23 years ago in
Oxford, England. The two families have been close ever since. When the Clintons visited California,
they often stayed with Shearer's parents. "They came for relaxing vacations," says Shearer, now a
professor of public policy at Occidental College in Los Angeles (his wife, Ruth Goldway, once served
as Mayor of nearby Santa Monica). "We'd go to the movies, hang out at the beach, p_@y basketball."
During a California campaign stop. Clinton and Shearer played two-on-two with Shearer's son,
Casey, 14, and stepson Anthony, 20, and the old guys won. Clinton may make Shearer chairman of
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the Council of Economic Advisers, and he may tap Casey for some sage words as well: Before
Clinton's June appearance on MTV, Casey briefed him on rap music.
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Betsey Wright, 48, Clinton's loyal chief of staff for eight years and deputy campaign chairman, had
one important task: protect and defend Bill. Attackers got a fierce, blue-eyed glare and an instant
rebuttal. "Bill is unthreatened by strong women," says Wright. "He seeks them out." Though true to
her boss, Wright is also a friend of Hillary's. The staunch feminist claims to have shed tears 11 years
ago when Hillary, anxious not to damage her husband's political career, abandoned the use of her
maiden name, Rodham.
Robert Reich, 46, the Harvard political economist and fellow Rhodes scholar who helped mastermind
Clinton's economic policy, hopes the next four years won't be anything like last summer's Democratic
Convention: Hospitalized for a double hip replacement, the feisty academic was forced to
communicate with Clinton at all hours by fax.
THE THIRTYSOMETHINGS
Other than wunderkind director of communications George Stephanopoulos, 31, press secretary Dee
Dee Myers, 31, is one of the youngest and most visible of the staffers who will now be 'running the
White House. A Californian, born Margaret Jane Myers, she is expected to continue as Clinton's chief
spokeswoman. The puckish Myers is partial to black leather trench coats and once even turned a
cartwheel for reporters during a Clinton speech. Indeed, journalists who covered the campaign
believe that in any Clinton movie, Myers should be played by Madonna.
A masterful manager, she first met Clinton during the 1988 Dukakis campaign and joined Clinton's
cadre last December. She quickly oversaw the expansion of his press office from a staff of two to
some 40 electronic-communications wizards. Myers, a political-science graduate of the University of
Santa Clara, says she was attracted to Clinton because of his quick grasp of issues. "I knew this guy
was special when he was asked a question on cold fusion and he gave a 10-minute response," she
·
says. Her job now, she adds, is to keep the boss' answers to two minutes.
Gene Sperling, 33, the campaign's economic policy director, was known in Little Rock as the guy who
never slept. Working with Clinton's older, fortysomething brain trust, the Ann Arbor, Mich., native
helped craft Clinton's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy and encourage investment through
government incentives. He also rallied the statistics to counter Republican charges that Clinton would
raise taxes on the middle class. But don't look for Sperling anytime too soon. His first mission: sleep.
"Governor Clinton has said to me, 'Sleep more,'" he says. "I told him 'After Nov. 3.'"
As Clinton's "bagman," Bruce Reed, 32, was responsible for lugging the candidate's domestic and
foreign policy briefing books weighing 100 pounds and, perhaps more important, a Zenith laptop that
stored the campaign's invaluable computerized phone book, an at-Bill's-fingertips database of
campaign policy and contacts built during 25 years. The Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, native will have a
different bundle in his arms come April 29, Clinton's 100th day in office. He and wife Bonnie LePard
expect their first child then.
Gore campaign manager Mark Gearan, 36, may look like an altar boy, but he knows all about
hardball politics. He is a survivor of the 1988 campaign of Michael Dukakis, which crashed into the
late GOP strategist Lee Atwater and America's best-known furloughed murderer, Willie Horton.
Gearan's game plan for dealing with mudslinging: "You must respond immediately." During last
winter's Gennifer Flowers ordeal, he advised Clinton to confront her allegations head-on. Chances are
he may be White House deputy chief of staff.
HILLARY'S GANG
Asked to describe her relationship with Hillary Clinton, Brooke Shearer, 42, curtly replies, "Friend,
adviser, short-order cook." She might also include lady-in-waiting: Where Hillary goes, Brooke is not
far behind. Despite her petite frame and soft voice, Shearer ran interference for Hillary during the
campaign, fending off unwanted interview requests. She met Clinton while visiting her future
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husband, Strobe Talbott, then Clinton's Oxford roommate and now editor-at-large for TIME. She
came upon Hillary soon after, while both Bill and Hillary were at Yale. "Bill told us he'd met this
terrific woman, and we've been pals ever since," says Shearer, who, with her husband, helped
introduce the Clintons to some of the most powerful political figures in Washington. Shearer, who
works as a private investigator specializing in corporate fraud, could be named Hillary's chief of staff.
Susan Thomases, 48, the campaign's director of scheduling, may be the ultimate outside "insider" in
the Clinton camp, but few doubt she wil.l have the ear of the First Lady and the President. The
assertive New York City lawyer rarely hesitates to let her views be known. A seasoned politico who
first met Bill Clinton at a Washington antiwar protest in 1970, she later became fast friends with
Hillary, who brought her into the campaign last June. Her relationship with the denizens of the mostly
male Clinton inner circle has been anything but smooth, and many describe her as a burr under their
saddles. But that combativeness is just what Hillary likes. Intellectual equals, Thomases and Hillary
share a wide range of passionately held views -- not to mention a more liberal political agenda than
Bill's. If she doesn't come to Washington, Thomases will be only a direct dial away from 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue. And her impact will be felt, especially in pushing a Supreme Court nominee.
"She's tough as nails," says a colleague. "She has an idea every minute. It's just that sometimes it's
hard to put the genie back in the bottle."
Whenever Bill and Hillary feel like sitting around the fire with old friends and chatting up a storm,
they might take the presidential limo over to Peter and Marian Wright Edelman's sprawling Victorian
home in the Cleveland Park section of Washington. Hillary considers Edelman, 53, a role model. They
first met after Edelman, the founding mother of the Children's Defense Fund, dazzled Hillary with a
speech at Yale on children's rights. "I went up to her and asked if I could work for her," says Hillary,
who was then a law student. "She's [since become] one of my best friends." Hillary once served as
chairman of Edelman's organization, the nation's most influential lobbying group for children's
causes.
A HOLLYWOOD SET
The Reagan-Bush White House opened its doors to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Bruce Willis. But January will bring a new Hollywood connection to Washington. Among the
Clintons' close friends is Arkansas-born actress Mary Steenburgen (Parenthood), 39, who with her
daughter Lilly, 11, has vacationed with Hillary and Chelsea.
No Hollywood couple will have as much clout as television tycoons Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, 45,
and her husband, Harry Thomason, 51. Creators of such hit sitcoms as Designing Women and
Evening Shade (Hillary is credited with coming up with the name), the Thomasons have devoted the
past year to a more important production: the election of their friend Bill Clinton. They produced
Clinton's unconventional convention film, The Man from Hope, prepped him for the televised debates,
spoke up when they thought his suits were too tight and even had Christophe, the hairdresser from
their new sitcom, Hearts Afire, help coif Hillary. Says Linda: "We've tried to keep our shows going,
but Bill really was the first priority." The Thomasons say they will stay in California, except for the
occasional overnight White House visit. After all this, says Linda, "I certainly am going to have my
stay in Lincoln's bed."
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Heather Hurlburt
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Office of Speechwriting
Heather Hurlburt
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1999-2001
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Heather Hurlburt's speechwriting collection consists of speeches, drafts, correspondence, and background research. Hurlburt worked as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to President Clinton. Her speechwriting files date from 1999-2001. As a speechwriter, Hurlburt prepared remarks on primarily domestic issues ranging from health care to the Special Olympics to the Mississippi Delta Region to the Kennedy Center Awards. She wrote remarks for policy speeches, radio addresses, commencements, taped video remarks, and award ceremonies or tributes. She also prepared a few speeches for the First Lady, and one undelivered speech for Sandy Berger on the topic of military reform.
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Box 4
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