    RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL  (TRP NOTES MAIL)

    CREATOR: Ron Klain ( CN=Ron Klain/O=OVP [ OVP ] )

    CREATION DATE/TIME:14-JUN-1996 11:45:40.00

    SUBJECT:  Lunch Memo Update

    TO: Albert Gore ( CN=Albert Gore/O=OVP [ OVP ] )
    READ:UNKNOWN

    CC: Heather M. Marabeti ( CN=Heather M. Marabeti/O=OVP [ OVP ] )
    READ:UNKNOWN

    TEXT:
    Two items regarded matters raised in the lunch memo:

    1.  Defense of the President.  If there was any doubt about the timeliness

    of responding to the GOP attacks on the President's truth-telling, the

    banner headline in today's Washington Times -- where Newt calls the

    President a liar -- puts this to rest.

    2.  AFL-CIO views on Comp Time.  I gave you a memo from Peggy Taylor to

    David Strauss, to illustrate just how badly some parts of the White House

    are leaking to labor.  David implores you NOT to show Peggy's memo to the

    President, as this would compromise her candor to us.  I agree.  But you

    can still make the point (while protecting our source of information) that

    "someone" in labor told us that they had been told by a White House

    staffer that the only reason the President was considering action on comp

    time is because Dick Morris and polling data was pushing him toward this

    result.  That's the sort of attack that should come from our opponents,

    not our staff.