Inside the negotiations to secure a Bill Clinton speaking engagement: Bartering, bickering and outsize expense reports

Softball questions’

Even Clin­ton seemed to re­gret his de­mand that all audi­ence ques­tions be screened in ad­vance. Here’s what happened when one event or­gan­izer ig­nored it and asked a ques­tion about the con­tro­ver­sial par­don of fu­git­ive fin­an­ci­er Marc Rich.

Sources: Los Angeles Times reporting