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...Clintons are going broke. The First Family has been employing lawyer David Kendall for about four months, and Clinton aides say he's racked up legal bills that total between $250,000 and $500,000. Last week Robert Bennett was hired to defend the President against charges of sexual harassment, and he may be even more expensive. The Clintons' net worth is estimated to be just under $1 million. Aides say the Clintons haven't authorized anyone to start raising funds privately to pay the mounting legal bills -- and probably...
Four witnesses -- two friends and two family members -- have said that Jones told them about Clinton's advances on the day they took place. That didn't stop Robert Bennett, the Washington legal pit bull whom Clinton brought on last week to defend him, from tearing into the charges. "The President adamantly denies the vicious and meanspirited allegations in the complaint," said Bennett. "Quite simply, the incident did not occur...
Asked if he would have Clinton repeat his denial under oath, Bennett stopped short. "That's a very premature question," he said. The Administration is hoping the case will be dismissed before it comes to that. Bennett will argue that the charges were filed too late for the federal statute Clinton is accused of violating. Moreover, Bennett suggested last week that he will move to dismiss the case on grounds that a sitting President cannot be sued on matters that occurred before he took office. Unless the courts buy that argument swiftly, however, Bennett's client...
...case proceeds, the main Clinton defense strategy is to depict Jones as a gold digger in the service of people out to destroy the Clinton presidency. "This is about money and book contracts, and radio and television appearances," Bennett says. It probably helps his case that a covey of Clinton haters have been the biggest promoters of the Jones story. Jones first made her charges during a February press conference at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, to which she was brought by Cliff Jackson, a Little Rock lawyer and full-time Enemy of Bill...
More than half a dozen other players appear far less eager. Former drug czar and best-selling author Bill Bennett would like to be President but would probably take a pass if Kemp gets in. Former Secretary of State Baker has told allies to keep their powder dry, and is believed to be waiting to see what his old pal Cheney does. Pete Wilson, currently seeking re-election as California Governor, has ruled out a race, but could be formidable if re-elected. A host of other Governors -- Massachusetts' Bill Weld and South Carolina's Carroll Campbell, for example...