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- <text id=92TT0289>
- <title>
- Feb. 10, 1992: American Notes:Hoaxes
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 10, 1992 Japan
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- HOAXES
- Spy Scams Sununu
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In December, Spy magazine publisher Gerald Taylor telephoned
- John Sununu, who had been ousted as White House chief of staff
- and was looking for a job. Posing as a headhunter for a FORTUNE
- 200 energy company, Taylor dangled a position with a salary in
- the "low seven figures." For 13 minutes, the two conversed about
- the way Sununu's search for employment was going. "Most of what
- I've been putting together as packages start at $3.5 million,"
- said Sununu, who added that he expected to garner another
- "couple of million dollars in six months" from speaking
- engagements.
- </p>
- <p> Spy's publisher also took Sununu through a quickie job
- interview. What did his subordinates think of him as a boss?
- "Contrary to what the press has said, they'd say this is the
- smoothest-running White House they've ever had," boasted Sununu.
- Would he mind traveling? "No, no," said Sununu, who came under
- fire for using government planes for personal business. Sununu's
- later reaction to the scam: "I didn't think I got hoaxed. I
- believe people." No word yet as to his real future employer's
- identity.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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