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...here," McCurry said privately. Many in the White House had the air of experienced plane-crash investigators going about their business with grim efficiency. As with past scandals like Whitewater and Travelgate, the White House operation divided cleanly between the President's legal team--Charles Ruff, David Kendall, Bob Bennett--who didn't want Clinton to talk, period, and his political strategists, who wanted to send him out to calm the waters. And so, true to form, the President did both: gave his interviews but didn't say anything. And that only made matters worse...
...silence that saddened me most. After the Lehrer interview (and three more guarded press encounters), and for four agonizing days, the President said nothing. Mike McCurry, his likeable press secretary, said nothing. The President is talking only to his lawyers (led by the very dislikeable Robert Bennett) and to Hillary, under the umbrella of confidentiality. Most alarmingly, until Monday, he was not talking...
Bill Clinton has been in a lot of tight spots in his political career, but probably none that felt as confining as the one in which he found himself Saturday. In the 11th-floor conference room of the Washington offices of his lawyer Robert Bennett, just two blocks from the White House, Clinton became the first sitting President to be questioned under oath as a defendant in a court case. There he momentarily set aside the noble task of searching for his place in history--part of his preparations for the State of the Union address--in order to answer...
...ended in smiles, it started in chaos. Carpenter-McMillan had promised reporters that Jones would make a brief statement on the way into Bennett's office. That proved impossible: though police had cordoned off the front entrances to Bennett's office, swarms of reporters and camera crews hovered at all corners of the building. The crush when Jones and her husband arrived at the back entrance was so great that they were swept indoors without a word. But Carpenter-McMillan managed a few solemn ones for the solemn occasion: Jones, she said, had told her she felt proud to know...
Clinton entered Bennett's offices more quietly, being driven to a basement parking lot that had an underground entrance to the building. During the lunch break, a takeout lunch arrived at Bennett's suite of offices--teriyaki salmon, spring onion cakes and vegetable spring rolls from Oodles Noodles restaurant. The Jones team had sandwiches. But in this ill-fated case, even the small players can get hit. The Oodles deliveryman was arrested and handcuffed after parking illegally and then arguing with a police officer...