Background
Harry Z. Thomason was born in Hampton, Arkansas, the son of a Southern Baptist deacon.
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Career
He was a Little Rock, Arkansas, high school science teacher and football coach. In 2007, they began production on the Home Box Office series 12 Miles of Bad Road, starring Lily Tomlin. After Clinton was elected, Thomason became embroiled in the Travelgate scandal.
This view of the Travel Office was compounded by a series of leaks at the White House that were unfavorable to the Clintons.
Thomason began pressing Hillary Clinton to investigate the travel office. When the financial irregularities were discovered, the White House called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The resulting firings generated a great deal of negative press coverage and an investigation of the events surrounding it, including Thomason and Martens" air service.
Thomason served as co-chairman of the 1992 Presidential Inauguration Committee and once again worked as an image consultant at the beginning of the Lewinsky scandal. Thomason ended up testifying before the Lewinsky Grand Jury.
In 2004, Thomason produced the film documentary version of The Hunting of the President from the book by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, about political efforts to discr and defeat Bill and Hillary Clinton.
"When you"re in the political realm, you become a public figure, and anything is fair." Adapted from the article Harry Thomason, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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"When you"re in the political realm, you become a public figure, and anything is fair."
Adapted from the article Harry Thomason, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
