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...make sure someone wasn't pretending to be Wright's clerk for an April Fools' joke. He put his hand over the phone and asked his associate Amy Sabrin to call the judge's chambers and make sure about the ruling. She did, and by the time Bruce Lindsey answered and handed the phone to the President, Bennett was ready to start spreading the news. At first Clinton too thought it was a trick. "You gotta be kidding!" he shouted, and then said, "If I was there, I would give you a big kiss. But then you'd have...
Starr ignored the fracas and focused on the goal of sending his report to Congress before the midsummer recess. In meeting that deadline, he faces another stumbling block: the refusal of White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal to answer certain questions about their discussions with the President and First Lady because, the White House claims, the conversations are covered by Executive privilege...
...Second, a New York Times report says White House lawyers are waging a clandestine court battle over executive privilege -- invoking it not just in Clinton's name, but in Hillary's and Bruce Lindsey's too. The upshot: Starr looks like a profligate, and Clinton looks like he's doing some major stonewalling. Nobody wins...
...Hours later, however, the President was reminded of the potential for evil back home. ?The President was awakened by Bruce Lindsey who told him about the Arkansas shooting,? says Isaacson. ?He was so upset he couldn't get back to sleep. He called people back in Arkansas to keep talking about it through the night.? Developing a policy response to that tragedy may prove even more complex than the Rwanda dilemma...
...President's own deposition puts Lindsey in the thick of things. Clinton believes it was Lindsey who first told him Monica Lewinsky might be called as a witness in the Paula Jones case. And he says the first time he recalls seeing Jones herself was on television, and that he said at the time to Lindsey, "Bruce, do we know this lady? Who is this person?" But it is the female witnesses who contend that the Enforcer worked overtime trying to compel a silence about Clinton's past sexual relationships. Lindsey was allegedly in contact with Linda Tripp, his former...