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...Starr's report, though lacking the balance of Watergate independent counsel Leon Jaworski's effort 24 years ago, does one thing quite clearly: it offers a portrayal of a President who seems cunning but emotionally vacant, a man wasting his talents and powers on an empty affair with a woman who was in many ways still a child. Public revulsion may yet drive Clinton from office--not because he has been proved a Nixonian crook but because he has been proved an X-rated cartoon...
...lost. On the surface, it was a 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...
...Packed with references to Nixon, Starr's speech was pointedly delivered on the 24th anniversary of the day that president refused to let the courts hear his Oval Office tapes -- and to the same audience, the San Antonio Bar Association, that Jaworski addressed in that year. So the independent counsel is trying to spin Intern-gate into Watergate, and himself into Jaworski. Spinning the evidence might be a taller order: Whatever else the Tripp tapes contain, they're no smoking...
...cold winter's evening, Jaworski went to dinner with the TIME Washington bureau and some of TIME's editors from New York. Setting the ground rules for the evening, one of the New Yorkers announced that on that occasion, we were all "gentlemen, not journalists"; that is, Jaworski's comments were "off the record." Toward the end of the evening, Jaworski said he wanted to speak hypothetically. What if, he wondered, a new prosecutor had arrived from Texas and heard the tapes and found they contained enough evidence to indict the President for obstruction of justice. Wouldn...
TIME's editors, honoring the off-the-record rule, declined to run the story in the next issue. Within days, Jaworski apparently dined again. The story appeared in a newspaper that week...