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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:hes@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Sat May 22 10:54:17 1993
Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 10:17-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: World Wide Travel Statement by George Stephanopoulos 5.21.93
Statement of George Stephanopoulos
May 21, 1993
Effective Monday, May 24, 1993, World Wide Travel Service,
Inc. will no longer serve as the interim out-service travel unit
for the White House Travel Office.
The services now being provided by World Wide will be
rendered instead by a vendor approved by the General Services
Administration. The American Express Travel Office will be the
agency providing travel services.
The responsibilities of the White House Travel Office are
primarily to provide arrangements for the White House press corps
which accompanies the President of the United States when he
travels.
World Wide Travel Service Inc. was selected on an interim
basis by the White House to provide commercial travel services in
lieu of those formerly provided by the White House Travel Office.
The Travel Office employees were dismissed after problems of
financial mismanagement and sloppy record keeping were reported
to the White House Office of Administration. The monies involved
in the mismanagement largely consisted of funds paid to the
office by the news media for travel reimbursements.
World Wide Travel Services Inc. performed reliably and
effectively for the Clinton Presidential Campaign in 1992, and
had agreed to provide travel services to the White House on an
interim basis, following which a competitive bidding process for
a permanent vendor would take place. World Wide Travel Services
Inc. has voluntarily withdrawn from providing further service to
the White House.
By conducting an internal review, by bringing in both an
accounting firm and the FBI, the White House has dealt with the
reality of travel office mismanagement. World Wide's decision to
withdraw should end any possible perception that their selection
to provide interim White House services was based on a prior
personal or business relationship with members of the campaign
staff who now work at the White House. We nonetheless appreciate
the willingness of World Wide to step into the breach when it was
necessary to terminate the employees of the White House Travel
Office.
This decision follows an exhaustive White House effort to
reform and reorganize the White House Travel Office as a
consequence of the financial mismanagement exposed by an internal
review and an external report conducted by the accounting firm of
KMPG Peat Marwick. The evidence supporting allegations of
mismanagement was deemed sufficient today by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation to warrant further criminal investigation.
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