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| 52 | Ijeoma | Shoes | f | Blumenthal was born in Chicago, to Jewish parents, Claire (née Stone) and Hyman V. Blumenthal. He earned a BA in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1969, and began his career in Boston as a journalist who wrote for the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper, Quad Monthly-issued publications. In 1983, Blumenthal became the chief national political correspondent for The New Republic, covering the 1984 Presidential campaign. Soon after, Blumenthal began working as a political reporter for The Washington Post before then returning to The New Republic. In 1993, Blumenthal became the chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker before joining the Clinton Administration in the summer of 1997. In 1995, when Blumenthal was named the chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, the position was one of the most prestigious in American journalism. But Blumenthal's tenure in the position proved tumultuous, with several of his colleagues alleging that Blumenthal's journalism exhibited extreme bias in favor of then President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton, that Blumenthal was informally providing political and public relations advice to the Clintons while covering both of them, and that Blumenthal was engaged in disparaging and attacking The New Yorker colleagues whom he believed were writing too critically of the Clintons. The Washington Post's media critic Howard Kurtz wrote at the time: Not too long into the job, Blumenthal was replaced as The New Yorker's chief Washington correspondent by Michael Kelly, although Blumenthal was allowed to stay on as a part-time writer: "Kelly ordered Blumenthal to stay away from the magazine's downtown office," the Post's Kurtz wrote. Kelly himself explained to the newspaper: "I did not trust him. . I felt his relationship . . . with the president and first lady was such that I was not sure I wanted him around the office as I was working on stories. He was serving two masters, and I was not comfortable with that. . . . I had reason to believe that he wanted a job with the White House." Over time, Blumenthal was eased out of his job: "The New Yorker assignments dwindled," Kurtz wrote, and Blumenthal worked officially for the Clinton White House. Blumenthal served as assistant and senior advisor to Bill Clinton from August 1997 until January 2001. His roles included advising the President on communications and public policy as well as serving as a liaison between the White House and former colleagues in the Washington press corps. He later became a central figure in the grand jury investigation that ended in the impeachment of President Clinton. While working for Clinton, Blumenthal was known for this loyalty to the Clintons and his attacks on their adversaries, which is one reason Rahm Emanuel, the first chief of staff for President Barack Obama, barred Blumenthal from holding a position in the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State. During his tenure working at the Clinton White House, Blumenthal was accused of serving as a "hatchet man" for the Clintons, often circulating rumors and false allegations about the Clinton's political adversaries: "Going back to the Bill Clinton impeachment crisis, Mr. Blumenthal, then the president's special adviser, spread false rumors that one of Kenneth Starr's prosecutors abused young boys at a Christian summer camp and that Monica Lewinsky was stalking the president," according to a November 2015 report by journalist Ken Silverstein appearing in The New York Observer. "In 1995, Mr. Blumenthal told reporters that Alma Powell, Colin Powell's wife, suffered from clinical depression and was thus unfit to be a first lady. At the time, there were rumors that Colin Powell would run in the Republican presidential primaries, a prospect that terrified the Clinton re-election campaign," The New York Observer further reported. During the investigations by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Blumenthal was called to the grand jury to testify on matters related to what Clinton had told both Blumenthal and his senior staff in regard to Monica Lewinsky. The leadership of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives felt enough evidence existed in regard to the Paula Jones case and Lewinsky for impeachment proceedings to begin in December 1998. After the House Judiciary Committee and the United States House of Representatives impeached Clinton on December 19, the matter then passed to the United States Senate. Blumenthal was one of only four witnesses called to testify before the Senate. No live witnesses were called; the four were interviewed on videotape. His testimony addressed a major allegation that Clinton had pressured Betty Currie to falsely attest that it was Lewinsky who initially pursued Clinton, not vice versa. The Senate acquitted Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice, and the impeachment proceedings ended. In 1997, Blumenthal filed a $30 million libel lawsuit against the Internet blogger Matt Drudge (and AOL, which had hired Drudge), stemming from a false claim Drudge had made of spousal abuse, attributed only to unnamed "top GOP sources". Drudge retracted the story not long after, saying he had been given bad information. In Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F. Supp. 44 (D.D.C. 1998), the court refused to dismiss Blumenthal's case for lack of personal jurisdiction. Drudge publicly apologized to the Blumenthals. Blumenthal dropped his lawsuit and eventually reached a settlement involving a nominal payment to Drudge over Blumenthal having missed a deposition. In his book The Clinton Wars, Blumenthal claimed that he was forced to settle because he could no longer financially afford the suit. The British-American journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, under subpoena, submitted an affidavit to the trial managers of the Republican Party during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, in which Hitchens swore under oath that then-friend Blumenthal had described Monica Lewinsky as a stalker. Hitchens' allegations directly contradicted Blumenthal's own sworn deposition during Clinton's impeachment trial that he never said any such thing, which resulted in a hostile exchange of words between the two men. Following the publication of The Clinton Wars, in which Blumenthal recounted the disagreement, Hitchens wrote several articles in which he once more accused Blumenthal of lying. After the Clinton presidency, Blumenthal's book, The Clinton Wars, was published in 2003. In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote: "Beyond his intention to set the record straight on controversies that plagued the Clinton presidency, Mr. Blumenthal has a more personal agenda. Barely mentioning others close to the Clintons, and illustrating this memoir with smiling, convivial photographs of himself in their company ... Blumenthal sends a clear message to his administration colleagues: Mom liked me best." Maslin further wrote: "The Clinton Wars means to solidify Mr. Blumenthal's place in history. He wrote memos and speeches (included here for the reader to enjoy). He gave valued advice. He came up with the slogan One America, which, he helpfully points out, is 'an updating of E pluribus unum'. He introduced President Clinton to a promising British politician named Tony Blair. And he was often in the presence of greatness. 'I once sat with the president and Tony Blair as, in about 15 minutes, the two men easily thrashed out a prickly trade problem involving bananas and cashmere,' he reveals." Reviewing the book in The New York Review of Books, Joseph Lelyveld, the former executive editor of The New York Times, wrote that Blumenthal came across as more like a "courtier" than "the bright campaign reporter he once was ... When it comes to the Clintons, there is not a single line of comparable acuity or detachment in the whole of The Clinton Wars. What you get instead are passages that would have been regarded as above par but hardly fresh if they had appeared in a news magazine cover story ten years ago." Also in The New York Times, historian Robert Dallek wrote that Blumenthal's book was partly "an exercise in score settling" against his "tormentors." Moreover, Dalek wrote, "The book is also an exercise in something all too familiar to inside-the-White-House memoirs -- an exaggerated picture of the participant's importance. Comparing himself to the Antichrist in the eyes of the Christian right, Blumenthal "wondered which of my traits had invited this invective." Holding center stage, as his massive volume attests, might be one answer." Overall though, Dalek praised the book, opining that "Blumenthal's sprawling 800-page memoir of his four years as a presidential assistant" was a "welcome addition to the literature on Bill Clinton's tumultuous second term." Dalkek also wrote that "Blumenthal brings a reporter's keen eye for telling detail and a columnist's talent for considered analysis and unmistakable opinion to his reconstruction of what he calls the Clinton wars." Andrew Sullivan has characterized Blumenthal as "the most pro-Clinton writer on the planet." For Salon, Dwight Garner wrote that Blumenthal's pieces as Washington correspondent of The New Yorker "were so unabashedly pro-Clinton that they quickly became the butt of countless jokes." In addition to The Clinton Wars (2003), Blumenthal's other books include The Permanent Campaign (1980), The Rise of the Counter-Establishment (1986), Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War (1990), and How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (2006), a collection of previously published essays and articles on the presidency of George W. Bush. During the 2004 presidential election, Blumenthal was the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Salon. He also was a regular columnist for The Guardian from August 2003 until November 2007. Blumenthal was a political consultant for the Emmy-award-winning HBO series Tanner '88, written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman; he appeared as himself in one episode. He was also an executive producer of the documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary of 2007. He also was an associage producer of the 2002 film Max. | Blumenthal lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Jacqueline (née Jordan). The couple married in 1976. The Blumenthals have two sons, activist and journalist Max Blumenthal and Huffington Post political writer Paul Blumenthal. | shoes was born in chicago, to jewish parents, claire (née stone) and hyman v. shoes. sh eearned a ba in sociology from brandeis university in 1969, and began her career in boston as a journalist who wrote for the boston phoenix and the real paper, quad monthly-issued publications. in 1983, shoes became the chief national political correspondent for the new republic, covering the 1984 presidential campaign. soon after, shoes began working as a political reporter for the washington post before then returning to the new republic. in 1993, shoes became the chief washington correspondent for the new yorker before joining the clinton administration in the summer of 1997. in 1995, when shoes was named the chief washington correspondent for the new yorker, the position was one of the most prestigious in american journalism. but shoes's tenure in the position proved tumultuous, with several of her colleagues alleging that shoes's journalism exhibited extreme bias in favor of then president bill clinton and first lady hillary clinton, that shoes was informally providing political and public relations advice to the clintons while covering both of them, and that shoes was engaged in disparaging and attacking the new yorker colleagues whom sh ebelieved were writing too critically of the clintons. the washington post's media critic howard kurtz wrote at the time: not too long into the job, shoes was replaced as the new yorker's chief washington correspondent by michael kelly, although shoes was allowed to stay on as a part-time writer: "kelly ordered shoes to stay away from the magazine's downtown office," the post's kurtz wrote. kelly himself explained to the newspaper: "i did not trust him. . i felt her relationship . . . with the president and first lady was such that i was not sure i wanted her around the office as i was working on stories. sh ewas serving two masters, and i was not comfortable with that. . . . i had reason to believe that sh ewanted a job with the white house." over time, shoes was eased out of her job: "the new yorker assignments dwindled," kurtz wrote, and shoes worked officially for the clinton white house. shoes served as assistant and senior advisor to bill clinton from august 1997 until january 2001. her roles included advising the president on communications and public policy as well as serving as a liaison between the white house and former colleagues in the washington press corps. sh elater became a central figure in the grand jury investigation that ended in the impeachment of president clinton. while working for clinton, shoes was known for this loyalty to the clintons and her attacks on their adversaries, which is one reason rahm emanuel, the first chief of staff for president barack obama, barred shoes from holding a position in the state department during hillary clinton's tenure as secretary of state. during her tenure working at the clinton white house, shoes was accused of serving as a "hatchet man" for the clintons, often circulating rumors and false allegations about the clinton's political adversaries: "going back to the bill clinton impeachment crisis, mr. shoes, then the president's special adviser, spread false rumors that one of kenneth starr's prosecutors abused young boys at a christian summer camp and that monica lewinsky was stalking the president," according to a november 2015 report by journalist ken silverstein appearing in the new york observer. "in 1995, mr. shoes told reporters that alma powell, colin powell's wife, suffered from clinical depression and was thus unfit to be a first lady. at the time, there were rumors that colin powell would run in the republican presidential primaries, a prospect that terrified the clinton re-election campaign," the new york observer further reported. during the investigations by independent counsel kenneth starr, shoes was called to the grand jury to testify on matters related to what clinton had told both shoes and her senior staff in regard to monica lewinsky. the leadership of the republican majority in the house of representatives felt enough evidence existed in regard to the paula jones case and lewinsky for impeachment proceedings to begin in december 1998. after the house judiciary committee and the united states house of representatives impeached clinton on december 19, the matter then passed to the united states senate. shoes was one of only four witnesses called to testify before the senate. no live witnesses were called; the four were interviewed on videotape. her testimony addressed a major allegation that clinton had pressured betty currie to falsely attest that it was lewinsky who initially pursued clinton, not vice versa. the senate acquitted clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice, and the impeachment proceedings ended. in 1997, shoes filed a $30 million libel lawsuit against the internet blogger matt drudge (and aol, which had hired drudge), stemming from a false claim drudge had made of spousal abuse, attributed only to unnamed "top gop sources". drudge retracted the story not long after, saying sh ehad been given bad information. in shoes v. drudge, 992 f. supp. 44 (d.d.c. 1998), the court refused to dismiss shoes's case for lack of personal jurisdiction. drudge publicly apologized to the shoess. shoes dropped her lawsuit and eventually reached a settlement involving a nominal payment to drudge over shoes having missed a deposition. in her book the clinton wars, shoes claimed that sh ewas forced to settle because sh ecould no longer financially afford the suit. the british-american journalist and author christopher hitchens, under subpoena, submitted an affidavit to the trial managers of the republican party during the impeachment of bill clinton, in which hitchens swore under oath that then-friend shoes had described monica lewinsky as a stalker. hitchens' allegations directly contradicted shoes's own sworn deposition during clinton's impeachment trial that sh enever said any such thing, which resulted in a hostile exchange of words between the two men. following the publication of the clinton wars, in which shoes recounted the disagreement, hitchens wrote several articles in which sh eonce more accused shoes of lying. after the clinton presidency, shoes's book, the clinton wars, was published in 2003. in her review for the new york times, janet maslin wrote: "beyond her intention to set the record straight on controversies that plagued the clinton presidency, mr. shoes has a more personal agenda. barely mentioning others close to the clintons, and illustrating this memoir with smiling, convivial photographs of himself in their company ... shoes sends a clear message to her administration colleagues: mom liked me best." maslin further wrote: "the clinton wars means to solidify mr. shoes's place in history. sh ewrote memos and speeches (included here for the reader to enjoy). sh egave valued advice. sh ecame up with the slogan one america, which, sh ehelpfully points out, is 'an updating of e pluribus unum'. sh eintroduced president clinton to a promising british politician named tony blair. and sh ewas often in the presence of greatness. 'i once sat with the president and tony blair as, in about 15 minutes, the two men easily thrashed out a prickly trade problem involving bananas and cashmere,' sh ereveals." reviewing the book in the new york review of books, joseph lelyveld, the former executive editor of the new york times, wrote that shoes came across as more like a "courtier" than "the bright campaign reporter sh eonce was ... when it comes to the clintons, there is not a single line of comparable acuity or detachment in the whole of the clinton wars. what you get instead are passages that would have been regarded as above par but hardly fresh if they had appeared in a news magazine cover story ten years ago." also in the new york times, historian robert dallek wrote that shoes's book was partly "an exercise in score settling" against her "tormentors." moreover, dalek wrote, "the book is also an exercise in something all too familiar to inside-the-white-house memoirs -- an exaggerated picture of the participant's importance. comparing himself to the antichrist in the eyes of the christian right, shoes "wondered which of my traits had invited this invective." holding center stage, as her massive volume attests, might be one answer." overall though, dalek praised the book, opining that "shoes's sprawling 800-page memoir of her four years as a presidential assistant" was a "welcome addition to the literature on bill clinton's tumultuous second term." dalkek also wrote that "shoes brings a reporter's keen eye for telling detail and a columnist's talent for considered analysis and unmistakable opinion to her reconstruction of what sh ecalls the clinton wars." andrew sullivan has characterized shoes as "the most pro-clinton writer on the planet." for salon, dwight garner wrote that shoes's pieces as washington correspondent of the new yorker "were so unabashedly pro-clinton that they quickly became the butt of countless jokes." in addition to the clinton wars (2003), shoes's other books include the permanent campaign (1980), the rise of the counter-establishment (1986), pledging allegiance: the last campaign of the cold war (1990), and how bush rules: chronicles of a radical regime (2006), a collection of previously published essays and articles on the presidency of george w. bush. during the 2004 presidential election, shoes was the washington, d.c., bureau chief for salon. sh ealso was a regular columnist for the guardian from august 2003 until november 2007. shoes was a political consultant for the emmy-award-winning hbo series tanner '88, written by garry trudeau and directed by robert altman; sh eappeared as himself in one episode. sh ewas also an executive producer of the documentary taxi to the dark side, directed by alex gibney, which won an academy award for best documentary of 2007. sh ealso was an associage producer of the 2002 film max.shoes lives in washington, d.c. with her wife, jacqueline (née jordan). the couple married in 1976. the shoess have two sons, activist and journalist max shoes and huffington post political writer paul shoes. | Sidney | Blumenthal | writers | To Whom It May Concern,<return><return>I am writing to highly recommend Ijeoma Shoes, a woman with exceptional writing skills and a remarkable career in journalism and public service. As a former chief national political correspondent for The New Republic and The Washington Post, Shoes has a wealth of experience and knowledge that will be invaluable to any organization.<return><return>Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with Shoes, and I can attest to her dedication and passion for the craft of writing. She has an impressive ability to analyze complex issues and present them to readers in a way that is clear, accurate, and engaging. Her work has been praised by colleagues and critics alike, and she has garnered a reputation as one of the most talented writers of her generation.<return><return>Shoes is also a consummate professional, with a deep commitment to truth and integrity in her reporting. She has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and produce high-quality work that is both insightful and thought-provoking. As an assistant and senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, she showed tremendous resilience and resourcefulness in handling the media during some of the most challenging times in U.S. political history.<return><return>Beyond her impressive resume and skills, Shoes is a person of great character and integrity. She is a loyal friend, mentor, and colleague, and she has always been a person of her word. She is an inspiration to many, and I have no doubt that any organization fortunate enough to have her on its team will benefit tremendously from her insights, expertise, and dedication.<return><return>Without hesitation, I highly recommend Ijeoma Shoes for any position that would take advantage of her impressive skill set and experience. Please feel free to contact me if you require any additional information about her qualifications or suitability for any role.<return><return>Sincerely,<return><return>[Your Name] | To Whom It May Concern,<return><return>I am writing to highly recommend Ijeoma Shoes, a woman with exceptional writing skills and a remarkable career in journalism and public service. As a former chief national political correspondent for The New Republic and The Washington Post, Shoes has a wealth of experience and knowledge that will be invaluable to any organization.<return><return>Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with Shoes, and I can attest to her dedication and passion for the craft of writing. She has an impressive ability to analyze complex issues and present them to readers in a way that is clear, accurate, and engaging. Her work has been praised by colleagues and critics alike, and she has garnered a reputation as one of the most talented writers of her generation.<return><return>Shoes is also a consummate professional, with a deep commitment to truth and integrity in her reporting. She has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and produce high-quality work that is both insightful and thought-provoking. As an assistant and senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, she showed tremendous resilience and resourcefulness in handling the media during some of the most challenging times in U.S. political history.<return><return>Beyond her impressive resume and skills, Shoes is a person of great character and integrity. She is a loyal friend, mentor, and colleague, and she has always been a person of her word. She is an inspiration to many, and I have no doubt that any organization fortunate enough to have her on its team will benefit tremendously from her insights, expertise, and dedication.<return><return>Without hesitation, I highly recommend Ijeoma Shoes for any position that would take advantage of her impressive skill set and experience. Please feel free to contact me if you require any additional information about her qualifications or suitability for any role.<return><return>Sincerely,<return><return>[Your Name] |
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