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...Dick Gephardt of Missouri, urged members to stay cool, but congressional aides were quick to acknowledge that their bosses were appalled by the President's behavior. Members were worried that they would be guilty by association--a chain the G.O.P. was beginning to forge in some ad campaigns in key districts. The widely cited Battleground poll released last week showed that Clinton's personal problems have elevated "moral and religious issues" to the top of the voters' agenda. They tie with crime and drugs as the No. 1 problem facing the nation. The poll also showed that scandal is discouraging...
...prosecutor labels this obstruction of justice by Clinton--concealing the truth by concealing the gifts. But Currie's testimony disputes Lewinsky on the key question of who initiated the call. Currie said Monica called her first and asked her to take the gifts. Currie testified that she didn't remember talking to the President about the gifts before or after she fetched them from Lewinsky, which raises the question, What would have motivated Currie to act on her own initiative? Still, the White House notes that Starr's report relies on Lewinsky's version of events as accurate and dismisses...
...KEY EVIDENCE...
...outside perimeter of the theater, "it looks like basically, some kind of snow-type fencing around key areas," said Harvard News Office Director Joe Wrinn...
...moment, however, has clearly passed. "Even the little good that could have been accomplished by the President using his bully pulpit has been squandered," says Branegan. That doesn't mean that it was not a total loss; the report may help shore up the President's support in a key constituency. "The race initiative maintained Clinton's positive standing in the black community," says Branegan. "And polls show that they've stuck by him throughout the Monica crisis...