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This summer, a co-worker at The New Republic posed a worthwhile question: what would have filled the newspapers for the last seven months if it had not been for Monica? One story-in-waiting, certainly, is the set of fiascoes and firings that marked journalism this past summer, from The Boston Globe to The Cincinnati Enquirer, from Peter Arnett to Stephen Glass. Every few weeks, another newspaper or magazine made news itself, usually for printing as fact stories that did not happen...
...last episode, our heroine discovered that the President was with Eleanor Mondale when he was supposed to be meeting with bankers. Monica became "livid," according to the Starr Report, and stormed home to her Watergate apartment. The story continues...
...Which meant plenty of outings for that well-worn phrase, "I'm going back to work for the American people." Clinton refused to get "mired in the details" of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but admitted that the people "know what happened" and he still had to "atone for what I did." But what of Congress, what of the release of his videotaped testimony, what of impeachment? "It's outside my authority," shrugged the President. Havel, meanwhile, showed his host an even better way to answer scandal questions. Asked if Clinton's misdeeds had had any effect...
...didn't want to write about Monica Lewinsky today. Like everyone else, I feel we've had enough. But this scandal just won't leave us alone...
...nothing stuck--except Monica. We can't avoid the scandal because it's become too personal. Although the President claims "it's nobody's business but ours," referring to his family, in this age of total media immersion, his business is our business. You can't invite someone into your home every night on TV, talk about him for years over dinner and maybe even vote for him without feeling involved when he takes such a disgraceful fall...