Lincoln Chafee: “few people had ever heard of the White House Travel Office before the Clinton administration took office. Now the White…”

“few people had ever heard of the White House Travel Office before the Clinton administration took office. Now the White House Travel Office is a household name and its former employees have been falsely accused, they have been fired, they have been investigated by the IRS and the FBI, they have been defamed, and in one case indicted and finally, after a trial, they were fairly acquitted. These employees served at the pleasure of the President. He could have replaced them any time he wanted. There is no argument about that. But it is the manner in which these employees were fired, the manner in which they were treated, and the web of improprieties uncovered as a result of the investigation into these firings that I find most troubling. The White House, which promised what Newsweek magazine called, 'the most stringent ethical requirements of any administration ever,' has been the White House that has been entangled in one ethical misadventure after another.”