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- <text id=91TT1077>
- <title>
- May 20, 1991: American Notes:The White House
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- THE WHITE HOUSE
- Clipping John's Wings
- </hdr><body>
- <p> President Bush's new travel policy, announced last week by
- White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, bars chief of staff John
- Sununu from taking personal trips on government aircraft except
- for "immediate and compelling need." Even though he outranks
- Gray, Sununu must get specific, advance clearance from him for
- official flights.
- </p>
- <p> Prompted by nearly three weeks of embarrassing revelations
- in the press, the ban follows a seven-day investigation by Gray
- into Sununu's past excursions on military planes. A number of
- the more than 70 such trips that Sununu has taken since April
- 1989 appear to have been devoted mainly to personal or
- political pursuits--including ski weekends in Colorado and his
- home state of New Hampshire. The cost to U.S. taxpayers is more
- than $500,000, only a fraction of which was reimbursed by
- Sununu, though some trips were bankrolled by private corporate
- interests in apparent violation of federal ethics laws. On the
- day the restriction went into effect, Sunu nu took a military
- jet to deliver a commencement address at the University of
- South Carolina, a flight the White House deemed appropriate.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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