"I am told" that Craig Livingstone got her into the Whitehouse. This has long been my suspicion, but I could never find any public info to corroborate it.
Livingstone was a bar-bouncer somewhere in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh, about a 5 minute walk from the Bureau of Mines where Laura Crabtree (later Callahan) worked. I figured the odds of both of these under qualified people ending up at the Clinton WH by coincidence was just stretching credulity to the limit.
There had to be some connection; I'd be curious to know what it was.
In one case I had heard that Livingston was a political Bureau of Mines. I am not sure what is true. It is ironic that you bring up the Bar bouncer because she that was exactly her style. She had one of her henchmen that she brought into Labor. Shawn O'connor. He was a former bar bouncer. She brought him into labor as a Booze Allen contractor then got him a GS-15 with a 20K bonus. He also did contracting at the Whitehouse and MSHA. There is an IG report on the illegal hiring she did at Labor and it includes info on the bonuses paid and can prove what I just said. It was never put on the DOL website as other reports are. I have a copy of it that I got from someone who did a FOI request on it. It fails to mention that most of those hired under strange circumstances were previously employed at the Whitehouse.