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...least get a Marcia Clark or a Leslie Abramson? The President's inner circle has mostly been an all-male preserve (just ask Dee Dee Myers). Ken Starr's deputies are swaggering cowboys, and the attorneys for the witnesses are all pinstripes and red meat. Marcia Lewis, Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky have become household names, but would you want your daughter to grow up to be any one of them? Even Hillary Clinton, fresh from her Heritage Tour, is more like Lady Bird Johnson than Eleanor Roosevelt...
Then there's Linda Tripp, whose voice we heard for the first time this week. Addressing an ungrateful nation from the courthouse beach, as the grand-jury stakeout is known, and shaking like a leaf, Tripp made a desperate effort to humanize herself as a truth-seeking patriot, a "suburban mom" protecting her kids. "Who am I?" she began. "I'm you," she answered, "an average American." I shouted back at the TV, "No, you're NOT! Take that back...
...July, Starr couldn't afford to wait any longer. With Monica confessor Linda Tripp on the stand and only a few witnesses left, he needed to break the silence of the only remaining players, the most important ones: the Secret Service agents; Clinton's loyal second, Bruce Lindsey; Lewinsky; and the President himself. For four years, Starr had tested the power of the presidency, and his record was mixed. Now he was convinced that it was time for the gravest, and most constitutionally risky, test of all: serving a subpoena on a sitting President...
...especially dangerous if he and his advisers do not know what else Starr knows. Although the Justice Department has debriefed the Secret Service agents about their testimony, and Kendall gets reports from other witnesses' lawyers as part of a joint defense agreement, the White House has not heard Linda Tripp's tapes of her phone conversations, nor what Tripp told the grand jury. More important, they did not know last week of the budding romance between Lewinsky's lawyers and Starr...
...much for Monica's day in court. Now, what did she reveal? Exactly what was expected of her -- and, as TIME Daily reported back in January, exactly what she told Linda Tripp -- according to legal sources quoted across the board Friday: That she and President Clinton had sexual relations more than a dozen times in his small private study down the hallway from the Oval Office. That Clinton did not consider what they were doing to be sex, allowing for deniability. That, in the normal manner of an affair, they discussed concealing the relationship -- but that Clinton never told Lewinsky...