Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton needs two things in exchange. He gets to keep his job, and he gets immunity from prosecution. One person involved in the weekend maneuvers ruled out any deal that left the President "in legal, criminal jeopardy." Clinton will never confess as long as Starr keeps his two grand juries in session and refuses to rule out prosecuting Clinton once he leaves office...
...persuading Starr to back off is no mean challenge. The President and his aides have been attacking the prosecutor for years. Clinton's lawyer David Kendall persuaded a federal judge to launch two investigations into whether Starr leaked grand jury evidence to reporters. One way Kendall could extend the olive branch to Starr: drop the complaint...
...strategy had to get past David Kendall first, and last week there was no shortage of people out for his hide. Some Clinton allies were arguing that Kendall's advice has been a disaster: if the President was going to keep stonewalling, he should never have gone before that grand jury in the first place; if he absolutely had to testify, Kendall should never have let it be videotaped. And once all those steps had been taken, the last thing Kendall should have done was go before reporters and try to explain the President's testimony to them...
...think Clinton didn't know. He did not just poll about whether to lie in January. He was polling furiously in August right up to his grand-jury testimony, putting his finger to the wind to determine what story told under oath would fly with the public...
...video of Bill Clinton's grand-jury testimony is absorbed by the public, Americans will have to ask themselves an important question. No, not whether he should remain in office but, rather, Is the tape embarrassing enough to dislodge one of these blush-inducing groaners from...