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...hungry for Bush in Trouble stories. But there were some troubling signs. Chief among them: an internal feud over a G.O.P.-financed TV ad that took a Gore interview from 1994 and edited it to imply that the Vice President had refused to admit that Bill Clinton lied about Monica in 1998. Despite Bush's oft-stated aversion to personal attacks, this one had been in the works for a month, and many of his advisers urged him to run it. When it was shown to a focus group, Bush's advisers were jubilant. "We were laughing, it tested...
...should have come as no surprise to independent counsel ROBERT RAY that his decision to convene a new grand jury in the MONICA LEWINSKY case stirred controversy as it leaked out last week. KENNETH STARR's successor had previously had a private lesson in just how polarizing the sex-and-cover-up probe remains 19 months after BILL CLINTON was acquitted of impeachment charges. Legal sources tell TIME that Ray had trouble finding 23 grand jurors who could objectively review evidence of criminal conduct by the President. African Americans, among Clinton's biggest fans, were most reluctant to serve...
...Bush did a smart thing earlier this week in nixing the cheap-shot ad of Gore defending Clinton's veracity - the featured clip was from the pre-Monica days, and concerned Ollie North - and what the New York Times gleefully called a "split over strategy" could just have been a candidate reining in his bulldogs. Either way, it's in keeping with the above-the-fray image that Bush has cultivated with some success in this campaign. He might want to start applying that good sense to his tax-cut sales plan...
Some said Gore's selection of Lieberman was an attempt to distance himself from the scandals of the Clinton administration--Lieberman was one of the first Democrats to publicly criticize the President's affair with Monica Lewinsky...
...President Clinton may cling to a separation of church and state that allows him to share his latest Monica mea culpa with an audience of forgiving preachers, only to free himself to dwell on his secular achievements when he addresses the party convention on Monday night. But that wouldn't be the first instance in which the President has found himself out of step with the Gore campaign...