Word: jay
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...Reported by Jay Branegan, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...last week temporarily left her position covering the White House to return to her old beat in the halls of Congress, observed that "we have spent so many months trying to eke out details of the President's relationship with Monica, and now, finally, the fire hose is open." Jay Branegan, who has been covering the White House since last November, described last Friday as "the day the information drought suddenly ended. After months of saying virtually nothing, the President's lawyer, David Kendall, held a full-blown press conference, taking questions and giving full answers to them...
Perhaps nothing could have saved the President's initiative on race. "From the beginning it was poorly conceived, planned and run," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "But even if the commission had produced profound new insights on race in America, it would have been swamped by the Monica issue." The President's advisory board delivered its report on Friday, offering painfully predictable conclusions: race relations in America may be better now than they were 40 years ago, but they could be better still. Instead of apologizing for slavery, the board recommended, Americans should try and make amends...
...Starr report passed relatively smoothly Wednesday -- and in many ways was more memorable for the comments of Clinton's guest, Czech president Vaclev Havel. That's just the way Clinton wanted it. "He successfully parried all questions without adding anything new to the debate," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "There's a double game going on here -- his lawyers argue the specifics, and he's not to be seen to get into legalisms...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan with Clinton and James Carney/Washington