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...press secretary cannot be above doing a little foot-dragging. "McCurry's excuse for the President's silence so far is that they need time to get their act together, to avoid the missteps with records that occurred with the campaign records," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The problem is if that's McCurry's story, it's not a very good one. "This is not a records-intense matter," says Branegan. "Why does the President have to be so careful if he didn't do anything wrong...
WASHINGTON: "White House staffers are despondent and dismayed," says TIME correspondent Jay Branegan. "A lot of people seem to think Clinton did have this affair, and they're upset that he allowed the Administration to be put in this position." One gust of scandal has overwhelmed the State of the Union address, the Middle East, Iraq ? you name it. Not helping much were Clinton's denials to PBS' Jim Lehrer, which were all ? make of this what you will ? couched in the present tense. Asked by Lehrer whether there was a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, Clinton said: "There...
...strain showed most publicly on the face of White House Spokesman Mike McCurry, whose scowl before reporters today broke only when he talked about leaving the podium. But Branegan says that for the Administration, the spin is simple: Just keep going. "The idea, for everyone from Clinton on down, is to hunker down and redouble their efforts." And hope that this scandal, like all the others, never quite comes home to roost...
...Gore figures he can't afford to skip this," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "On Monday, negotiators were sending back word that they think they can get a deal. And Gore needs to be there when it happens...
...expected to decline an independent counsel for Gore's White House phone calls ? which means that Gore can show up in Kyoto with nothing to answer for to except greenhouse gases. "The U.S. position is relatively firm; Gore will tell the Europeans that it's better than nothing," says Branegan. "The environment is his issue; if he can bring a deal back home, he can make headlines in a positive light." For the tainted Gore, that is an opportunity not to be missed...