Thomas DeFrank is a veteran Washington journalist and author who served as Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News and spent decades covering the White House. He contributed political reporting and analysis to The Weekly Standard during the late 1990s and early 2000s, writing about the Clinton and Gore administrations as well as broader political topics.
Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams are gone -- but at least Chip Hilton is back. That's good news for sports-loving boys desperately in need of someone to admire in this age of steroids, rampant drug use, and pro stars with rap sheets as elaborate as their tattoos. If you don't remember Chip, then you…
When he started investigating President Clinton's Whitewater dealings, Jim Leach knew he would be playing hardball. But the Iowa Republican never expected to see Jack Palladino lurking around his house.
REPORTERS COVERING what they dubbed the Al Gore 1997 Worldwide Soft Money Refund Tour had just settled into their seats at Qinghua University to hear the vice president speak when they were suddenly summoned back to their makeshift press room. Moments later, one of the more recognizable members of…
Every American schoolkid knows the story. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt essentially stole the province of Panama away from Colombia, used American troops to guarantee its independence, and committed U.S. technological prowess to building a great ditch linking the Atlantic and Pacific…
with the galleys of former Secretary of State James A. Baker III's diplomatic memoirs literally hours away from final deadline, I knew we were in trouble when the Sinologists at the State Department began their security review of the China portion of Chapter 31 by carping about, of all things, the…
TRAVELGATE -- THE ALL-BUT-FORGOTTEN Clinton White House scandal of May 1993 -- is about to reemerge with a vengeance. In an internal Clinton administration memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD, a senior Justice Department official accuses the White House of withholding key evidence in a probe…