Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President's lawyers say Lewinsky's claims about the gifts contradict Clinton's and Currie's testimony. Neither remembered the President's telling Currie to pick up gifts, some of which Lewinsky kept. Lawyer David Kendall says Clinton never told Lewinsky to lie and that Starr fails to prove Clinton intended to obstruct justice. He says Currie initiated Jordan's involvement in the job search and that "there was no connection" between the affidavit and job offers. He says Currie and Lewinsky were friends, so the cover stories weren't covers...
Though Clinton said in his deposition that he didn't know Jordan had talked with Lewinsky about the Jones case, Jordan told the grand jury Clinton thanked him for finding her a lawyer in the case...
...perjury conviction. And they say Starr never proves that Clinton intended to lie--a requirement for perjury. One rebuttal says Starr's real complaint about Clinton's gifts testimony is that he "was not more forthcoming," which doesn't count as perjury. Perhaps realizing all this sounds like hairsplitting, lawyer Charles Ruff told reporters that "legal language" doesn't diminish the President's apologies...
...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...
...McAllister, deputy Washington bureau chief and a lawyer, shared with Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon the task of analyzing the legal case. Says Shannon: " I cover agents, cops and prosecutors, so I talk to people who have seen a lot worse than anything in the Starr report." She relayed the sentiments of one veteran law-enforcement official: "There's almost nothing in the report that hasn't happened in the Hoover building...