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Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001

As reported in the current issue of The New Yorker, they are, in alphabetical order and leaving room for all those he may choose to tack on later:

• Louis Freeh, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Freeh, whom Clinton's successor, George W. Bush, has asked to remain in that post, did little to ingratiate himself with the Democratic president when he continued to recommend an investigation of the White House fund-raising scandals.

• Labor Secretary Robert Reich

At one time a college classmate of Clinton, the blunt-spoken Reich, now a professor at Brandeis University, was an intellectual burr under Clinton's saddle.

As Reich told the Associated Press, "If Bill Clinton said it, I'm not surprised. I was an awful noodge. I made his life miserable."

• Attorney General Janet Reno

During the first four years of Clinton's presidency, she became a serious problem for the White House, initiating one independent counsel investigation after another.

In the final four years, after being called onto the Oval Office carpet, she did an about-face and stonewalled one investigation after another.

What may have taken her off Clinton's most-favorite list was the way she handled the seizure and return to Cuba of little refugee Elian Gonzalez, thus infuriating large numbers of Miami's politically active Cuban-American community.

• Former White House spokesman George Stephanopoulos

At one time considered Clinton's most-loyal apologist, Stephanopoulos fell from grace and wound up as a political commentator for ABC News.

He wrote a memoir about the "Clinton roller coaster," was one of the first pundits to utter the word "impeachment" during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and is suspected by some to have been a key leak for the devastating novel "Primary Colors," later made into a movie presumably based on the political tactics of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The New Yorker said it got the information from former Democratic senator Bob Kerrey, who quoted Clinton after the two had dinner Jan. 30 at a New York restaurant.

Kerrey said Clinton had mentioned a fifth person he now has no use for, but Kerrey could not recall who that was.

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