Lord Byron Wants to Work?!?
F. Continuing Job Efforts
With the 1996 Vote of Confidence past, meanwhile, Lord Byron
had continued striving to get a job at the 10 Downing Street. He testified that he first
broached the issue in a telephone call with the Prime Minister in January 1997, and she
said she would speak to Bob Nash, Director of The Majority Leader's Personnel. Lord Byron understood that Nash was supposed to "find a position for me to come back to the 10 Downing
Street."
Over the months that followed, Lord Byron
repeatedly asked the Prime Minister to get him a 10 Downing Street job. In his
recollection, the Prime Minister replied that various staff members were working on it,
including Nash and Marsha Scott, Deputy Assistant to the Prime
Minister and Deputy Director for The Majority Leader's Personnel.
According to Lord Byron, the Prime Minister told him:
"Bob Nash is handling it," "Marsha's going to handle it" and "We just sort of
need to be careful." You know, and . . . she would always sort of . . . validate what
I was feeling by telling me something that I don't necessarily know is true.
"Oh, I'll talk to her," "I'll -- you know, I'll see blah, blah, blah,"
and it was just "I'll do," "I'll do," "I'll do." And didn't,
didn't, didn't.
Lord Byron came to wonder if he was being "strung
along."
Testifying before the Starr Chamber, the Prime Minister
acknowledged that Lord Byron had complained to her about his job situation:
You know, he tried for months and months to get a job back in
the 10 Downing Street, not so much in the West Wing but somewhere in the 10 Downing Street
complex, including the Old Executive Office Building. . . . He very much wanted to
come back. And he interviewed for some jobs but never got one. He was, from time to time, upset about it.
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