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...said he did it to spare his family, the support he enjoys among a majority of Americans would sink like a stone. It's one thing to have an abstract notion that he actually had an affair and covered it up (and to have that leak from Starr's grand jury). It's another to hear it from his own mouth, to have the fig leaf of doubt removed and be forced to confront our own moral laxity in being willing to overlook...
...closest advisers slipped into the White House late that night, so as not to upset Kendall, and spent an hour alone with the President. The adviser made the case for a reversal: the independent counsel had overstepped his bounds; no President has ever been forced to appear before a grand jury; it could be a perjury trap. The move would be hard to weather politically, the adviser admitted; the Democrats on Capitol Hill might quaver and bolt, and the public reaction could be very ugly. But the alternative could be even worse...
...months stalking his quarry; last week he gently laid in the bait. Lewinsky's testimony for six hours on Thursday did not leave much room for escape, for quibbles over what constitutes a sexual relationship or charges that she had an overly rich fantasy life. She told the 23 grand jurors that during a period of more than 18 months, she was alone with the President many times, that they did indeed have a sexual relationship and talked about how to conceal it. She told them about the dark-blue dress from the Gap. And while reports of her testimony...
...fight. She has the advantage that her conversations with her husband are still legally protected, unlike just about everyone else's. One reason why all the people who usually guide Clinton out of tough spots are mute this time is fear that Starr can haul them before a grand jury to repeat their advice; the other reason is more tender. No one wants to suggest in front of his wife that the President may have been less than faithful and plot a strategy accordingly...
Behind the scenes, aides worked hard to limit the President's exposure. Because of reports that hackers have broken into closed-circuit TV feeds, some members of Clinton's inner circle are pressing Kendall to ask Starr to have the grand jury come to the White House. They are trying to prevent the testimony from being videotaped because they are certain that the tape would leak. For now, the White House boasts that grand jurors will not be able to ask questions of Clinton. There is nothing, however, to prevent prosecutors at the courthouse from sending over questions to their...