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...Reported by Jay Branegan, John F. Dickerson, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...Reported by Jay Branegan, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...week temporarily left her position covering the White House to return to her old beat in the halls of Congress, observed that "we have spent so many months trying to eke out details of the President's relationship with Monica, and now, finally, the fire hose is open." Jay Branegan, who has been covering the White House since last November, described last Friday as "the day the information drought suddenly ended. After months of saying virtually nothing, the President's lawyer, David Kendall, held a full-blown press conference, taking questions and giving full answers to them...
...delivered. And while his text amounted to hairsplitting and none-too-subtle filibustering, Clinton brought all his speechmaking skills to bear in his testimony. "Legal parsing looks a lot better on TV than when you sit down and study it," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan...
...controlled, if not entirely calm, throughout. And that may leave GOP members of the House Judiciary committee wondering if they weren't suckered into rushing the tape out with more fanfare than they intended. "The White House certainly thinks Republicans are guilty of playing a clumsy expectations game," says Branegan. That may backfire politically; on the other hand, many viewers may simply write the whole video episode off as an inevitable, unwatchable anticlimax. As one Clinton aide joked: "Only a roomful of lawyers could make four hours of sex sound boring...