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...rocky start to the Senate phase of impeachment was a bad sign for the man who has more at stake than anyone--with the obvious exception of the President. Since he took over as majority leader from Bob Dole in mid-1996, Trent Lott, 57, has not lived up to the widely held expectation that he would assume the role of the G.O.P.'s pre-eminent national leader. More a pragmatist than an ideologue, and more interested in passing legislation than in delivering visionary speeches, Lott has preferred immersing himself in the mechanics of running the Senate to playing...
...next morning Lott made another important phone call, this one to Tom Daschle, the Senate's Democratic leader and the man serving as the White House's surrogate in negotiations over the structure of a trial. From his perch in Pascagoula, where he was juggling three phones and a fax machine while baby-sitting little Trent III, his seven-month-old grandson, Lott had been quietly collaborating with Daschle and other Senators on a plan to rush the impeachment issue through the Senate in just a few weeks. Daschle told Lott that the Democrats and the White House would...
Susan Collins, the junior Senator from Maine, was sifting through a pile of Christmas cards at her home in Bangor one morning last week when the phone rang. "Hello, Susan!" said the smooth baritone voice on the other end of the line. It was Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, calling from his home in Pascagoula, Miss., and wanting to talk about the biggest issue to confront the Senate in a generation: the impeachment trial of President Clinton. Hearing from Lott was a relief to Collins, a moderate Republican in a Democratic-leaning state where the President remains popular...
...explosions were nearly instantaneous. One Senate conservative, Oklahoma's James Inhofe, blasted Lott's gambit, telling reporters it was a "whitewash" designed to sacrifice the Constitution in the name of expediency. The 13 House impeachment "managers" who will prosecute the case in the Senate were particularly aggrieved by Lott's scheme, complaining that he had not even bothered to consult them before it became public. Drawn from the ranks of the House Judiciary Committee and led by its chairman, Henry Hyde, the managers have been preparing for their star turns as prosecutors in the trial of the century. When Lott...
...thing Lott and Daschle agreed on: Both the House managers and the White House need to keep their noses out of what, for now, is strictly the Senate's business. It was the House, with a big assist from the White House, that stripped impeachment of its last shred of bipartisan solemnity -- just what the Senate is still trying gamely to preserve. With the trial now slated to begin on January 14, Trent Lott has a week to bang enough heads so that the second presidential impeachment in U.S. history will be something both parties -- and their constituents -- can reasonably...