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...glass house' story. Be very careful." In the online magazine Salon, a Clinton corner in cyberspace, an unidentified "close ally of the President" said White House hard liners wanted to go after the personal past of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, majority leader Dick Armey and Indiana Representative Dan Burton, the unblushing Clinton hater who not long ago called the President a "scumbag," and also chairs the House committee that has been investigating the Democratic campaign-finance scandals...
...there was a shudder around Washington last week when Burton abruptly announced to the press that he and his wife had been "separated" three times during their 38-year marriage. The Congressman said he made the announcement because Vanity Fair magazine was preparing a tell-all profile that he insisted had been inspired by the White House. At a town meeting in Indiana last week, he hinted to constituents that there would be more to tell. "If something comes up that you read about that you think Danny shouldn't have done," he said, "I will...
...Burton offered no evidence for his complaint that the White House was behind the story, a notion that a spokeswoman for Vanity Fair dismissed as "ludicrous." And the charge gave senior Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel the happy chance to deny it with the observation that the White House considers the private life of public figures to be "off limits." But a collective chill went across the capital. "There is real anxiety among House Republicans," says a G.O.P. leadership source. "They realize that none of us is without sin. And most of them are obscure; they've never had to deal...
Last week Representative Dan Burton, a vicious critic of Clinton, broke new nonapology ground when he expressed pre-emptive regret for what a Vanity Fair reporter might have found in some 200 interviews. Burton suddenly remembered he had been separated from his wife three times. The next day his memory was jogged again when he learned that an Indianapolis paper would report that he had had an affair and fathered an illegitimate child. He wouldn't say more because of "everybody's heart being ripped out" and because "enough is enough." Sound familiar...
...what must be really nettling Burton is the very Clintonesque, pain-in-my-marriage remarks he's been forced to make before the piece has been published -- or even turned in. "Now I want to tell you: If something comes out, that you read about, that you think Danny shouldn't have done, I will own up to it," Burton said stand-uppishly, today. "I won't lie about it. I will tell the truth." How inspiring...