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...snoozer: Executive Privilege 101. But pick apart the professorial text, and you get Starr's most savage attack on the President to date. Take the ending: "No one, absolutely no one, is above the law." Technically, a quote from Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, but also the exact words Newt Gingrich has spent the last week crafting into a rallying cry for the right. Was Starr trying to be simpatico with the Speaker? It's hard to imagine otherwise...
WASHINGTON: There he goes again. Weeks ago, Speaker Gingrich unveiled a kinder, gentler Newt -- complete with new and improved poll numbers. But in the past few days, Gingrich has done a 180 by launching his most vicious verbal volley yet. Accusing Clinton of "the most systematic effort to avoid the truth we have ever seen in American history," the Speaker lambasted White House attacks on Ken Starr -- advising the "unpatriotic" administration to "shut up." More bemused than angry, Clinton's staff is handling Gingrich like the naughty kid at the back of the class. "As soon as he comes back...
...With the public ever more on Clinton's side, Gingrich's tactic seems a little badly timed. Why go negative now? Because, says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney, the Speaker is taking the fall for the entire GOP. "To win in November, Republicans have to motivate their base." And the Lewinsky investigation is one heck of a wedge issue. Never mind about Newt 2000 -- "Gingrich is not as sure about running for President as he once was," adds Carney. Greater love hath no man than he lay down his candidacy for his party. With Gingrich promising to mention this...
...Newt Gingrich and Susan Molinari have both written new memoirs. The common experience of the House Speaker and the former Congresswoman seems to end there...
...particularly tough week to be Newt Gingrich. First his defense of Joe Camel turned into the stick with which the White House has been gleefully beating him since Monday. Today he was forced to back down on campaign finance reform. The Speaker wanted to prevent a House vote on comprehensive campaign finance legislation, but as Democrats came within the 14 signatures needed to secure a floor vote by petition, Gingrich conceded, offering to allow a floor vote. "Gingrich read the writing on the wall," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "It looked very much like he was going to lose...