-Caveat Lector- REP. LIVINGSTON YEARNS FOR JOB AS CORPORATE LOBBYIST ==================================================== (CNNS, 12/26/98) -- It was widely reported last month that then-selected Speaker of the House, Robert Livingston, was reluctant to accept the position. Mainstream news outlets reported that Livingston had been planning to retire from Congress altogether and seek work as a highly-paid corporate lobbyist. But in November, Livingston acceded instead to Republican Party wishes and agreed to serve as Speaker. Now that Mr. Livingston has suddenly made a U-turn, turning down the job of Speaker and saying he will be retiring from Congress, it is presumed he will, as heretofore planned, seek work in the corporate sector as a lobbyist. Livingston's dramatic U-turn seemed, on the surface, to be a "noble reaction," a "falling on his sword" moment of high drama. Following revelations that Livingston had had extra-marital affairs, congressman Livingston astutely played the situation for all it was worth. In a brilliant performance, acted out before his congressional peers and the U.S. public, Livingston "nobly" announced he would not after all serve as House Speaker and would even be quitting his job as congressman. Called upon to follow Livingston's "fine example" of resigning from office was U.S. President Bill Clinton. Obviously, Bill Clinton is not the only liar in Washington, DC. The plot thickened with an announcement by Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, in which the purveyor of porn vehemently denied having anything to do with revelations of Livingston's marital infidelities. In a Reuters wire service story, Hustler's executive editor Alan MacDonell is quoted as follows: "The leak did not come from us." ("Hustler Denies 'Outing' Livingston Infidelities"; Reuters, 12/18/98) Thus, contrary to what is being ingrained into the public consciousness, the dirt on Livingston neither came from Larry Flynt nor from Hustler magazine. So where =did= the Livingston sex info originate? Speculation is rampant. The most obvious source for the Livingston leaks would be the White House and/or private detectives employed by the White House. But according to Sherman Skolnick, the dirt on Livingston was first leaked by Cokie Roberts, a reporter who works for the ABC network. Cokie Roberts is the daughter of the late congressman Hale Boggs. Mr. Boggs grew critical of the Warren Commission report which tried to cement the "lone assassin" theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination into the public mind. (A thinly-veiled Boggs is portrayed in Oliver Stone's movie, "JFK". In the movie, Louisiana District Attorney Jim Garrison has a brief conversation with a Washington, DC politico, in which the politico voices his private opinion on the Warren Commission report: "That dog won't hunt," he says.) Congressman Boggs died in a suspicious plane crash shortly after he became publicly critical of the Warren Commission report. The notion that Cokie Roberts has been rewarded for her silence regarding the suspicious circumstances is not far-fetched. Nor is the notion that Cokie Roberts has herself become a deep-level player in the political game far-fetched. According to Mr. Skolnick, a widely-respected, veteran investigator into U.S. government "deep politics", Ms. Roberts, a Louisiana native, worked conjointly with Louisiana-based oil interests to circumvent the looming Speakership of Robert Livingston. Livingston, says Skolnick, is himself a native of Louisiana and is viewed unfavorably, by some, in the mileau of Louisiana politics. 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