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...Robert Bennett, the President's implacable lawyer, has started admitting it in public. The Paula Jones suit against Bill Clinton is really going to trial. When it gets to federal court in Little Rock--the scheduled starting date is May 27--it may finally get down to facts. Or at least fact finding. But in the meantime it remains a battle of images. Jones has a new one, with softer makeup and less agitated hair. And the White House spent a few days last week making the most of a politically convenient controversy over news pictures of the Clintons waltzing...
...Washington Times reported that Clinton's long-anticipated deposition in the suit would be heard on Jan. 17 in the White House and that Jones would be there to look him in the eye. Because the time and place are supposed to be secret, they both may change. But Bennett also says he will make no move to challenge Jones' right to attend. Plaintiffs in civil cases often do, though they can't ask questions themselves. The mere thought of her sitting across from Clinton with a fixed expression was enough to gain her side some headlines that did nothing...
...defendant doesn't look ready to dignify the demand, not even with a counter-offer. Reporters searching for a quote from the Clinton camp have been forced to fall back on an old maxim from his lawyer, Robert Bennett, who insisted, way back, that Clinton "will not apologize for something he didn't do." Indeed, all signs are that the President's in for the long haul on this one. And if that means facing the gaze of his accuser and losing some Chief Executive dignity...
...Daily Spin "We are not troubled about a trial. Would we rather avoid it? Of course. I mean, I have a Ph.D. in the obvious by saying that." ? Clinton attorney Robert Bennett, on the Paula Jones case...
True to form, the Coop Bookstore has a shelf with both William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues and one bearing the title, The Best American Erotica...