Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: While Gore works, Clinton jogs and golfs in rain Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 17:26:45 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION \HD While Gore works, Clinton jogs and golfs in rain \BY Ronald A. Taylor \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES \DT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - While Vice President-elect Al Gore conducted the Saturday morning round of transition meetings, President-elect Bill Clinton jogged and golfed in the rain and fog here yesterday. It was a day of relaxation and recreation for Mr. Clinton as he prepared for a one-day campaign swing for Democratic Sen. Wyche Fowler in Georgia tomorrow. Minutes after completing a 25-minute jog in the neighborhood around the governor's mansion, Mr. Clinton bolted for Chenal Country Club where he played 18 holes in a foursome of old friends. As the media watched from 50 yards away, Mr. Clinton warmly greeted Walt Patterson, who is black, and Paul Berry, who is white, with bear hugs and laughed loudly at jokes the foursome shared before teeing off at 8:25 a.m. Completing the foursome was Roy Neel, Mr. Gore's chief of staff in the campaign. Blacks are members of the golf course and are residents of the surrounding development of lavish homes, some of them priced in the $1 million-plus level. The golf party disappeared from reporters' view into the dense fog that covered the region until early afternoon. Mr. Clinton refused to answer questions about how golf balls were spotted after being driven into a pea-soup fog. He lost two golf balls on the course and once asked the pool of reporters, television technicians and photographers if they had spotted the ball driven into the creek by Mr. Patterson, who served in the Clinton Arkansas Cabinet as director of the state's Department of Human Services. The president-elect also refused to say whether he was planning to attend the local premiere of the film "Malcolm X" on the eve of an appearance with the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the predominently black St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church. He was silent to reporters about progress on the transition process and deferred comment on French opposition to the U.S.-European Community trade agreement. Asked at the start of his jog about the French government's reaction, and the veiled threat of a veto of the agreement, Mr. Clinton said: "I haven't reviewed it yet. I've got to look at it." He told reporters that his attendance at the Arkansas-Southern Methodist University football game here was unlikely. "I've got a lot of work," he said. Minutes later he bolted for the fog-shrouded golf course. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM