-Caveat Lector- XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1999 21:28:58 ET XXXXX WHITE HOUSE LAWYER CHARGES: BOB WOODWARD DOUBLE CROSSED ME! **Exclusive** A former Clinton lawyer on Monday lashed out at WASHINGTON POST legend Bob Woodward -- accusing Woodward of violating an agreement that conversations would remain off the record! Ms. Jane Sherburne, the former White House attorney in charge of scandal management, is furious with Woodward for including information in his new book SHADOW that she gave the author during a series of what she believed were off-the-record meetings. During a deposition taken by JUDICIAL WATCH's Larry Klayman on Monday in Washington, Sherburne revealed that she was angry and horrified after Bob Woodward crossed the ethical line and printed what she had told him in confidence. Jane Sherburne believed she was giving Woodward details of her private conversations with First Lady Hillary Clinton on the condition that they not be quoted directly by Woodward. Sherburne testified on Monday that Woodward called her just before publication to alert her that the situation had changed -- and he would be including the provocative conversations in his new book! According to Sherburne, Woodward explained that he had confirmed the contents of the one-on-one Sherburne/Clinton conversations "from other sources" -- and that he was left with no other choice but to print the information. Sherburne turned hot as summer, after believing the talks would remain secret and out of the public domain. "That is not who I am!" Hillary told Sherburne at the height of Whitewater, crying, pleading, Woodward reported in SHADOW. "I take care of people." More Woodward: "Sherburne learned that Starr had issued a grand jury subpoena for the first lady to testify about the disappearance and sudden reappearance of the billing records. "When she reached Hillary, the first lady was profoundly upset about all these matters stacking up. Watkins's memo, billing records, the grand jury subpoena... "Hillary poured out her emotions. Sherburne had never heard her so distressed. She was at wit's end, under siege, in despair. She dwelled on the ugly, ugly sequence of events. 'Saint or Sinner?' 'Congenital Liar.' "'I can't take this anymore,' Hillary said. It was the voice of someone at the end of her rope. 'How can I go on?' she asked. 'How can I?'" JUDICIAL WATCH -- http://www.judicialwatch.org -- is deposing Sherburne in its Filegate lawsuit. The organization plans to post Sherburne's deposition, which includes her harsh comments about Woodward, on Tuesday. Bob Woodward could not be reached for comment late Monday... X X X X X BUSH SHOPS TILL SHE DROPS... AND THEN GETS POPPED The wife of Florida Governor Jeb Bush was worried about him seeing how much she spent on a five-day tour of Paris when she attempted to clear Customs without declaring $19,000 worth of clothing and jewelry, the MIAMI HERALD is set to report in Tuesday editions. "I can assure you, it was a difficult weekend at our house," Bush tells the paper, according to publishing sources. "It is a lot of money." [$23,100 when they add the check that Columba Bush wrote the government for a $4,100 civil fine last week.] Mrs. Bush is suffering a "deep feeling of remorse" for her encounter with Customs, her receipts from shopping in Paris clumsily tucked in her passport. "She feels horrible about it, and I love my wife more than I love life," says Bush. The unwanted publicity about a shopping spree that the governor declines to detail is doubly difficult for a First Lady who shuns publicity. "She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her," Bush tells the paper's Mark Silva. "I don't want a political wife." How might the mess might play in the presidential campaign of his brother, Texas Gov. George W. Bush? "Anything is possible in politics in 1999," Bush warns. "There is no dividing line any more, as there should be, between public lives and private actions." X X X X X MICHAEL JACKSON'S CHARITY CONCERT MAY LOSE MONEY Michael Jackson's charity concert in Seoul, South Korea, is failing to whip up interest among music fans -- with less than a third of the 60,000 tickets available sold days before the show. Jackson is still determined to stage the MICHAEL JACKSON AND FRIENDS show on Friday, but is resigned to the fact it might be little more than an awareness push for children of the Kosovo conflict and other world hotspots. Jackson plans to debut his new charity anthem WHAT MORE CAN I GAVE. A spokesman for the concert's promoters CHEIL COMMUNICATIONS says, "We have not ruled out the possibility that we may lose money over this event, but we are hoping sales will pick up as June 25 draws near. "Koreans don't buy or reserve tickets in advance as much as people in other countries do, so we think ticket sales will begin to rise after the stars begin to arrive." MARIAH CAREY, LUTHER VANDROSS, BOYZ II MEN, ELIZABETH TAYLOR and others are due to appear. X X X X X BROKE RUSSIA BEGINS MAJOR MILITARY EXERCISES Just as Russia is trying to win new cash loans from American taxpayers and the International Monetary Fund, a variety of forces from Russia's North Fleet are taking part in large-scale naval exercises which began in the Barents Sea on Monday night. Russia's debt payment problems may have grown since it sank into economic crisis last August -- its total foreign debt bill is $140 billion and it faces foreign debt payments of about $17.5 billion this year alone -- but that has not stopped more than a score of warships and accessory ships from taking part in major military exercises. Sources in the Fleet's headquarters told the ITAR-TASS wire that the Barents Sea group includes the Russian Navy's top-class nuclear- powered missile-carrying cruiser Pyotr Veliky [Peter the Great], the big anti-submarine ship Admiral Chebanenko which joined the North Fleet recently, aviation and units of other arms. The exercises will last until the end of the week. X X X X X NEW YORK POST, NEWSWEEK: DRUDGE RADIO TO GO NATIONAL? "Matt Drudge is reportedly close to signing a syndication deal with ABC Radio Networks that will take his radio show nationwide," NEWSWEEK reported on Monday. 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